I had to look, and see if you were messing with me or what, lol... but yeah, that's a group of typical Michigan girls. You can find very little diversity in areas of Michigan due to immigration trends 200ish years ago, and with the recent Iraqi immigrants. Some things do not change, and populations switching countries only change the geography, not their cultural bias, or traditions, it seems. I grew up in a couple Michigan areas with definitive ethnic types, and homeostasis seems to me to be the right word for it, maybe it's not. Anyway, the Dutch town of Holland Mich, when I was a kid 45ish years ago, was about 85 % blondes. Now, it's about 50. The area in the Upper Penninsula I was born and raised in (mostly except for about 5 years near Holland) was mostly 2 ethnic groups, Native American "Indian" and Finnish. When there's a local university that speaks Finnish, in class? That's 100 percent Finlander. Suomi kutsuu. I was born on the res, and the Baraga tribe of the Ojibwa make up a tiny minority around town, but, hey, it's VERY distinct that you've got the Indian, the Finnish, and then the rest of us. If you were to take a look at the 1980s, in my hometowns, you'd see two groups, Blondes and Indians, and that was how it was. So that banner of U of M young women isn't a DEI representation, it's far more real about the Michigan population that sends its young daughters to an expensive university. I could not afford to go to university then, and I can't effing afford it now. But that row of women isn't an example of anything, it's a normal amount of young people in that area, which is hundreds of miles maybe, from Detroit, and the low income poverty struck area that can't afford university, mostly from the descendants of slaves that moved to Detroit pre WW2 to get away from the racist south, and get jobs in the growth market of automobiles, but was laid off and left out to dry by big industry and the corporate greed that killed Detroit, Pittsburg, and the rest of the manufacturing the Mid America used to do in the booming 50s and 60s. That sorority is simply an example of the mainly Dutch German Swiss, Finnish and Swede background of the earlier immigrants. I shit you not. The early europeans were very blonde, and young women seem to color their hair more blonde than anything else. By looking at the eyebrows, which seem to be 50 50 on getting colored when the hair gets dyed, the two on the ends are brunettes too.
Alpha Gamma Delta, the woman’s fraternity?
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DeleteTheir banner image is a good example of how to display a corporate commitment to D&E (diversity & inclusion) because it includes two brunettes.
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I had to look, and see if you were messing with me or what, lol... but yeah, that's a group of typical Michigan girls. You can find very little diversity in areas of Michigan due to immigration trends 200ish years ago, and with the recent Iraqi immigrants. Some things do not change, and populations switching countries only change the geography, not their cultural bias, or traditions, it seems.
DeleteI grew up in a couple Michigan areas with definitive ethnic types, and homeostasis seems to me to be the right word for it, maybe it's not.
Anyway, the Dutch town of Holland Mich, when I was a kid 45ish years ago, was about 85 % blondes. Now, it's about 50.
The area in the Upper Penninsula I was born and raised in (mostly except for about 5 years near Holland) was mostly 2 ethnic groups, Native American "Indian" and Finnish.
When there's a local university that speaks Finnish, in class? That's 100 percent Finlander. Suomi kutsuu.
I was born on the res, and the Baraga tribe of the Ojibwa make up a tiny minority around town, but, hey, it's VERY distinct that you've got the Indian, the Finnish, and then the rest of us. If you were to take a look at the 1980s, in my hometowns, you'd see two groups, Blondes and Indians, and that was how it was.
So that banner of U of M young women isn't a DEI representation, it's far more real about the Michigan population that sends its young daughters to an expensive university. I could not afford to go to university then, and I can't effing afford it now.
But that row of women isn't an example of anything, it's a normal amount of young people in that area, which is hundreds of miles maybe, from Detroit, and the low income poverty struck area that can't afford university, mostly from the descendants of slaves that moved to Detroit pre WW2 to get away from the racist south, and get jobs in the growth market of automobiles, but was laid off and left out to dry by big industry and the corporate greed that killed Detroit, Pittsburg, and the rest of the manufacturing the Mid America used to do in the booming 50s and 60s.
That sorority is simply an example of the mainly Dutch German Swiss, Finnish and Swede background of the earlier immigrants. I shit you not. The early europeans were very blonde, and young women seem to color their hair more blonde than anything else.
By looking at the eyebrows, which seem to be 50 50 on getting colored when the hair gets dyed, the two on the ends are brunettes too.
There is an Alpha Gamma Delta sorority at U of M. It could be for that.
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