Citizenship

Citizenship carries both rights and responsibilities. It is important to realize that by being a citizen of any community does not just mean you have the rights of that community, but that you then have a responsibility to make that community better. Having good citizenship does not just mean membership, it mean being active and engaged in that community. By being a citizen of the greek community, I am not asked, but REQUIRED to be active and better my community. It REQUIRES me to make decisions that will constantly better my community and make it a better place for the rest of the members of the group. This is just another way of saying the same thing we have been saying all quarter: live by your values. I joined the greek community because I saw that it's values were the same as the one's I live (or at least the one's I want to be) my life by. When I don't follow my values and don't live up to the responsibility that I have by being a citizen of the greek community, I am bringing down my community.

I think it is important to be a good citizen of both your own chapter and the greek community as a whole. I picture each individual chapter as members of the greek community. It is important for my chapter as a whole to be a good "citizen" of the community. It is a responsibility of my chapter to make sure that the decisions we make not only better us as a community, but also better the greek community as a whole. This is something I don't think tridelt or a lot of other chapters think about. We are so worried about the way we will be perceived or the way it will effect us individually, we need to think about the community as a whole. We need to think about bettering our own community as a chapter and bettering our greek community in general.

This video is kind of stupid, but it really does have a good message about being citizens of our world. It is not specific to the greek community but I really think the seven things should be done by all of us!