organizations may potentially face the problems of filling a quota if the university controls integration. Many may feel that this is a violation of the rights of a social organization. A Greek organization should be allowed to decide the membership criteria just like any other social group. Mr. Linder again provides another example when he says, ?a man has the right to want to have the neighborhood he lives in a certain kind of way? (535). People move into neighborhoods with common criteria much like the people who join fraternities and sororities have common criteria. If forced integration happens and membership criteria cannot be determined by the organization itself then traditions that the fraternities and sororities were founded upon will be broken. No longer will the Greek community be able to recruit legacies, relatives of alumni, and members of certain communities. Their entire founding principle will have to change and the groups will indefinitely lose meaning. For example, a sorority founded by black women for black women would lose its purpose if integration took place. This is what happened in ?Aria?. As the children of the family were integrated with Americans, they continually became more and more distant from their Spanish language and heritage. Eventually they are completely Americanized. However, some may say that the segregation among the Greek community is not racism at work; rather separation is based upon cultural differences. In other words, people tend to associate with those they can relate to best. Oftentimes this relation is to people of the same heritage and background. In both stories, it is evident that the families only associate with members of their own race. The narrator in ?Aria? ?grew up in a house where the only regular guests were [his] relations? (658). The only white person mentioned in the play A Raisin in the Sun is Karl Linder, the representative from the Welcoming Committee, of...
