Pretty good job. Now, can you please update your video to state that all of what you are doing (stepping, strolling, the music, calls, etc.) was created by Black undergrads in the National Pan-Hel Council? Every single thing. It is much easier to copy/paste than it is to create something wonderful out of thin air. This is our cultural heritage and I believe many of us would appreciate it if you would give credit and/or create something more reflective of the Latino culture.
I will never understand why Latino Greeks step. It is literally cultural appropriation. BGLO have a historical reason for strolling and stepping. Lglo are imitating without any real history. As a LGLO member it’s cringe.
@Cmorales why don't you go to your girls and say, "Hey, this is not us I don't know why we do it everything from jackets to hand signals etc. why do we do this? You don't see white orgs copying black Greeks because it's not their heritage so why do we do it?".
Not one acknowledgement of where all this stepping and strolling comes from😤 Here is my question why are you duplicating and trying to imitate what black folks do? Why are you not taking cultural references from Aztec/Mayan culture? Why are not the Asian org taking culture reference from ancient China/Japan? You clearly could have done that been different, but instead you wanted to copy culture reference from Africa..
I never knew or heard of Latino Fraternities and Sororities until I just read about it in my dance class book called, “Appreciating Dance.” This is really great! ❤️
Great Video. Not a Greek but very in tuned with Black Greek and loved the comradely between the two (saw a Delta in there) . I think the way steppin has found a place in other Organizations besides Black Greeks shows a platform of learning and understanding each other’s struggle. Keep up the good work!
In Black Greekdom we respect the steps and dance moves of each org, and we don't do them if they aren't ours. Some of this is just straight appropriation, not appreciation of Black culture.
You hear it in the entrance of the video lady gave all the Steppin and dancing credit to Latin culture and didn't mention black greek-letter organizations that all throughout the whole documentary so you know what they're already on
you africans steal from every group in the world and never get called out for it. your language, names, religion, culture, beliefs, even the food u eat does not come from Africa! so, go cry me a river.!
That's all I've been saying is a knowledge where it came from because other cultures have a habit of trying to claim black American culture. But a lot of American Latino culture is based off of Black American culture even their slang that's what I just realized nowadays
Look at what you are saying. Why make it about Latino and Black? Be better and see that mind set it what divides. sigma lambda betas roots are linked to a d9 org and me of the founders was a Phi Beta Sigma. And they’ve receive their blessing to do their thing. So don’t look down.
@@rsultan25 It's not dividing, it's just stating facts. Most non-black steppers that i've seen are sloppy and have no sauce or rhythm...it is what it is.
Angela's Travel Adventures Hispanics do that 💩 all the time: equate their struggles with black people to get what they want. Hispanics has never done crap for the black Community
This video isn't about who started stepping it's about how latino/a greek communities benefit the students who join them and why they feel so comfortable with their brothers and sisters. Why sprout negative where it was never planted?
It kind of is when the first couple of mins of the video talks about stepping/strolling AS IF it's unique to Hispanics organizations when in all reality Hispanics just study and stole what The Divine 9 orgs are doing for over a century now without giving credit to where it came from. That's call cultural appropriation and that's not sprouting negativity that's FACTS!
If you notice when they say people of color it, only means they don't want to mention the Black struggles. Yet, if it's Hispanic they will call it that
Me thisgirl because you people are copying from other organizations and not creating anything on your own. Latino students are very large population so, where is the oppression
It cool to see Latino stepping but stepping original in Africa and if your going to practice another culture method, know the history behind it before doing it
Most definitely agree with you. I'm part of a Latino fraternity that doesn't step nor stroll and it's because many people in the higher ups don't believe it's our culture to replicate. I'm one of the few that go against the grain and actually disagree with it because I'm familiar of the history of stepping and strolling. In the same vein of history, I believe it is vital to make the argument that there is no Latin America without African influence. That's why I feel that my organization needs to establish traditions that reflect that history in a respectful manner rather than copying something without stressing it's overall importance.
Africa is part of their culture just sometimes they are reluctant to acknowledge this. Their ethnic food music, dance are all heavily influenced by African culture.
We all know that black frats started step/etc. But, why do we have to compare what we do to what everyone else is doing? These kids are finding inspiration from those who desegregated the schools = black people. That's a complement. The struggle for freedom that blacks have fought, and are still fighting in this country, stands as an inspiration to the world; from South Africa, to India, to Serbia. Instead of criticism, we should feel pride. BTW: people who call this a racist story, don't understand the meaning of the word "racist". Racism is a system of rule where those with power use it to systemically deny rights to another group of people. Tell me where, in this story, that happens: go ahead, I'll wait.
The only time Hispanics every want to give credit to Blacks is when they are stealing from the culture....otherwise they are just as silent about black issues/racist as white people towards black people.
Hispanics has more privilege now with these Hispanics initiative policies that provides free Tuition for them to attend school and DACA. African Americans have been pushed into the shadows as well as their issues. Hispanics don't say a word yet, I see African Americans fighting for Hispanics issues..smh
Think about it. Who taught Latino orgs how to step/stroll? Y'all really think they just came out of no where? Many of my chapters started out by asking for help from D9 orgs. SLB was founded by a brother of Phi Beta Sigma. It's obvious why some aspects overlap.
Good for them but they've kinda just copied the Black fraternities moves/steps/culture. It would've been cooler if they created their own uniqe movement instead of rippin off another.
Yes. I'm not sure whether to feel insulted (because I don't know if they know the history of the practice) or respected (because if they know the history then they are paying homage).
They didnt copy. Stepping has spread to the latin frats/sorority and they're all different/unique. They have their latin culture to show off. Their moves aren't the same as the black frats/sorority. This has been around for a while it's kinda too late to wish they had their own "movement".
I’m disappointed that it wasn’t addressed in the story. As a member of a MCG org that steps/strolls, understanding the origins of the D9 was part of our undergraduate experience bc members of a D9 sorority counseled our founders and played a key role in our origin story. To not mention the origin of stepping and strolling and connection to D9 within this piece is disrespectful IMO.
the woman talking about how she goes to a PWI forgets she's white herself. I'm not saying these aren't important, but like Latina/Latinx isn't a race. Most of us are mestizo/brown (you can be light skinned and brown btw) but still.
It's a labelling issue. I believe it should be called a PAI-- predominantly Anglo institute. When it comes to the issues Latinxs face, many fall in the error of playing identity politics without taking into account their mestizaje. When it has come to the Latinx community, the intellectuals like Marti and Vasconcelos made sure they did not fall into this model of thinking. Rather, they made sure to draw a clear distinction between Anglo-America and Latino America.
PS As an Afro-Latino this is not a sharing of culture. Latin America is extremely anti-Black esp mestizo Latinos against Afro-latinos. The people joining these Latinx sororities and fraternities are mestizo and Blanco. They copy blacks America while not addressing the anti- blackness in Latin America.
@@mam9475 Exactly👏 They have a million derogatory names for Black people. Including the Black Latinos that are at the foundation of Latin culture. Mestizos and white people have been racist to Black people for centuries, then try to gaslight you when you present them with facts.
This is cool. Latinos face the same isolation and estrangement that AA's do at PWIs. I know I did which is why I explored and became a member of DST. It made a huge difference in my college experience.
Y'all really tried it. Especially since the UC alum who intentionally mentioned the difference between the Panhellenic Council & Multicultural Greek Council, but failed to mention the National Pan-Hellenic Council (Black Greek Letter Organizations) in which their stepping & strolling comes from.
Sharing your values and traditions with several fraternities/sororities is the best say to promote artistic events across the USA. :) BTW, they're standing up against racism towards some ethnic groups such as latinos. That's an amazing point and purpose
Always one not creating upholding imitating. NO there is a history behind BLACK stepping. We don’t just steal and copy each others moves, the movements are for a purpose. This is not okay, and is disrespectful.
I as hispanic when to a minority elementary school. Then got to middle school and from there on to high school I had no relations to any hispanics only 5 or 6 people and being scared me of sharing my culture with caucasians . Even the spanish club had no diversity . It's scary having almost nobody to relate to
Ash V no you people flooded our schools, and programs were taken from American students to facilitate ESL classes. This was not fair to the poor people you people step on
Mc 007 bro you literally came to a RU-vid video with little views to hate on every comment about Latinos. Which means you more likely took your time to search this up just to hate. Take a look at yourself before you try to make Latinos seem like the bad people. A very good amount of the US was Mexico before the whites took the land so how are you going to say that they crossed the border when a lot of brown people were already here
Many of the Latino sororities have permission from NPHC to stroll. Especially SLG & SLB especially because they are part of the FIRM family Also, many Latinos are black so they are also part of their culture
Blackness doesn't have anything to do with latinos. Having a teeny weeny bit of African DNA doesn't make you Black or part of the culture, especially since Black is a specific ethnic group.
HBCU Alumni who is glad to see Latin Organizations. I have never seen one. I've seen stepping in Black organizations step, but this is my first time seeing this. It is important to have that connection.
Jamedra A as an Afro-Latino there is no connection. Anti- blackness is prevalent throughout Latin America, the Mestizos like the women in this video are just copying black Americans while practicing anti-blackness in their culture. The problem is black Americans never hear the voices of Afro-latinos and usually associate being Latino/Hispanic with people that look like the women in this video. If Mestizos and Blancos don’t even associate with Afro Latinos what makes you think they have a connection with African Americans???
@@mam9475 There's a difference between blood and skin color. I look mestizo af but a good chunk of my family heritage comes from Afro-Latinos. I obviously don't go around claiming that I'm African American, that was not my experience growing up, but to say I have no connection to the culture/ history because of the color of my skin is insulting.
Sigma Lambda Beta pays homage to its roots. One of the founders was also a Phi Beta Sigma which is a black fraternity. Thanks to Phi Beta Sigma we wouldn’t have been able to be started without them. There are a number of similarities but we are different Orgs. We know what stepping and strolling symbolizes and it’s powerful to be able to participate in it.
I am sick and tired of these so-called Multicultural fraternities and sororities taking from us yes everything has been taken from our cultures as black people why who cares at this point you guys want to attack certain people like the Kardashians for appropriate misappropriating Black Culture but y'all do it and it's okay you sit there on these videos and say we do the stepping because it's about X Y and Z and this is why we do it instead of telling why and how and what stepping is it's not about a fraternity against fraternity sorority against sorority it's about the fact that it came from slavery we were not allowed to talk to each other so that's how we communicate that started at our colleges because we were not allowed to be in colleges in America or any other country we started our own HBCU historically black college you did not make up that stepping on your own you watched our videos and repeat it if you're going to do that at least give credit where credit is due with the culture as Latinos they have history in the Aztec pass if we take things from them like I truly believe tattooing comes from the Aztec people and Native Americans you can't take that from them but why is it okay that when you replace and try to do us you don't give our history as to the background of where you got it from you did not make that up that's what bothers me when you appreciate something give knowledge to it and give homage to where you took it from thank you
@@rsultan25 That sounds odd, you for real? The person all along sounds likes they wanted to start a Latino org all along so he puts his best face forward gets in the Sigmas (Phi Beta Sigmas) learns all he can when the time is right walk away (renounce) then all of the sudden take what you learn and build a Latin group!? Is that what really happened 😮
Because mentorship is needed for advancement and networking, I can see the need for this. I just wish they would use they wouldn’t cater to gangbanger stereotypes. Then again frats and sororities are just legitimatized gangs. One employer told me “they way you dress is how people treat you, dress like a gangbanger and people treat you like a gangbanger. Dress like a businessman /lady people will treat you as such.”
@@rossyreynoso3060 MGC is an actual council for Multicultural organizations. Most Asian orgs are in NAPA. There's a distinction between a culturaly based org vs a multicultural one. It gets confusing because campus administrators don't know how to handle orgs that are not IFC or NPC so they get lumped into an "other" category (MGC, UGC, DGC, etc).
yes everyone knows that black fraternities started stepping and Latino fraternities acknowledge that. if anything black people fraternities should be flattered that Latinos are emulating them. the biggest form of flattery is emulation.
@Katy Cunningham I get it. But everybody borrows from everybody. For example the fraternity comes from white college culture and when black students started there own were people accusing them of copying. Like I said imitation is the biggest form of flattery.
@Katy Cunningham yes slavery did take a part of your culture. But stepping comes from black american culture not African culture of Africa. But either that doesn't matter like I said everybody borrows from everybody. Rather than being offended you should flattered that another group of people want take part of black american culture. The same goes for black students emulating white fraternity life. If that was fine for black students then it's fine for other groups as well. No one forced black people into accepting a certain American culture everyone cultivated there own American culture. I understand the part wanting to protect a part of your culture that's totally natural but at the same time when black people try take part in another culture and they weren't accepted I'm sure you would say how it isn't fair. Wither you agree or disagree with these girls participating in a traditional black american event that's fine it's your opinion but don't complain when black people participate in something that traditionally doesn't follow there culture and there not respected for there interest or participation.
@Katy Cunningham the whole white race didn't take your culture. It's just your culture got left behind there's a difference. Yes you did have to assimilate in certain ways mostly in language. But going to college and an emulating certain aspects of white culture was a personal choice. Yes a part was to seek higher learning but not survival. You don't need to seek a college education to survive in the world. When black framers established hbcu they basically copied white universities. That just a prime example how everybody has copied from everyone at some point. If it's ok for your people to do then it should be ok for others. Another example is black colleges in the South would have debutante dances isn't that copying white culture but that's totally fine. Yes slavery did take part of African traditional culture from blacks but black Americans eventually formed there own culture and yet they still emulated other cultures as well and adapted to there own. Everybody does it. Black people weren't the only people that had to assimilate to make it in America. What about American Indians and European immigrants they also to change certain aspects of there culture.
@@johnconnor210 no culture is appropriated like Black culture and it's always someone whose culture is not appropriated that says trash like this. Why should anyone be flattered by their creativity being jacked?? That is just dumb. How about create your own traditions??
