I legitimately don't know what Fraternity is and why it's normal in America and why these dudes are standing like this.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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Calling a toff club a “frat” sounds weird. It would be like if John Cena started talking about opening up the bonnet of his car.
Yeah it is weird using the same word but functionally they do the same things and serve the same purpose.
Aren't frats present at most colleges, and aren't they much easier to get into?
OP isn't asking about "clubs for rich people" which seems what you're reducing this to be. Frats focus much more on providing housing to members as well, don't they?
And it really seems more like an Anglo thing. I mentioned the boarding schools to begin with, because I knew of Eton and the English with their weird stuff. But that's not the same as having these "societies" at every university - and especially not for whole of western Europe.