Microculture Observation

Today I sat in the Agora for about an hour, watching sorority sisters come in and out of the cafeteria to eat lunch. Although I do not know many of them on a personal level, I am familiar with a large majority of the girls (mostly because of eavesdropping of conversations, watching pre-gamers before mixers and being out in the hall with groups of them before mixers). During the hour span that was spent watching the sisters, it was noticeable that no "outsiders" joined the tables or even stop to talk with the sisters. Throughout the entire hour, the sisters exhibited the same type of behavior time and time again. All the girls would come into the cafeteria together and sit together in one huge bunch. After everyone ate, the sisters also left together and left no one behind. Their conversations were noisy and full of laughter. Only once, a friend of mine walked by a group of girls and he actually stopped and chatted for a couple seconds with one of the girls. For at least a couple of seconds, the invisible barrier that separates Greeks from non-Greeks seemed to collapse as opposites talked to each other. However, that was the only circumstance which slightly disproved my hypothesis.