UC Student Government Wants to Ban all Theme Parties
The outrage industry is alive and well at the University of California. The UC student government is even seeking to ban all theme parties after a fraternity held a quinceanera themed party.
Quinceanera parties are a Mexican tradition and the theme was even suggested by Mexican members of the fraternity but that doesn’t matter to the campus thought police.
Jane Nho of the Daily Californian reports.
ASUC Senate to consider bill condemning quinceanera-themed frat party
A quinceanera-themed party hosted by Delta Chi on Sept. 21 has been met with controversy by students of color and has prompted the introduction of an ASUC Senate bill condemning the event.
Many students criticized the party as an act of cultural appropriation of Latino culture. The bill, SB 16, calls for the ASUC to “condemn culturally appropriated theme parties” and urges the university to implement a racial sensitivity curriculum for the Greek community.
The bill also asks Delta Chi to write a public apology to the campus Latino community for appropriating its cultural traditions and reproducing cultural stereotypes for entertainment purposes.
According to SB 16, authored by CalSERVE Senator Wendy Pacheco, some party attendees were dressed in attire “reflective of ‘cholos.’ ”
“For people in the Mexican community, quinceaneras are usually for young women who transition from being a girl into a woman,” Pacheco said. “That’s very important in our community, and for someone to take that and turn it into a party scene and dress up with sombreros and mustaches and reflect those stereotypes of what Mexican culture is is not OK.”
Members of the fraternity, however, say there was no ill intent behind the party or its theme, which Delta Chi President Cody Kermanian said was suggested by Mexican members of the fraternity.
“A lot of the rhetoric in the bill assumes what our thoughts were without even talking to us about it,” Kermanian said. “The intention was never to marginalize, and it never has been nor will be.”
Question: Will Irish students still be allowed to host St. Patrick’s Day parties?
ASUC Senate to consider bill condemning quinceanera-themed frat party (The Daily Californian)
Comments
I am offensive, and I find this very Mexican.
What’s next, will you only be able to attend birthday parties if it’s *your* birthday? “Leave Bob! You’re appropriating my birthday festivities and celebrating the inevitable countdown to my death, so insensitive!”
Reminds me of another meme:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/were-a-culture-not-a-costume
Makes sense. Culturally-themed parties can easily get out of hand… especially if that culture is “Roman”.
And most recently of all, a “Roman Toga Party” was held from which we have received more than two dozen reports of individual acts of perversion SO profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here.
Any group found in violation of this ban will be placed on double-secret probation.