Before moving to the United States, my understanding of “Greek Life” came entirely from movies: coordinated outfits, oversized houses with Roman letters on the facade, and a social hierarchy that seemed as structured as a monarchy. For many international students from the European Union, fraternities and sororities are not just unfamiliar, they’re almost fictional.
For me the question isn’t whether Europe is “missing out” — it’s why this deeply American institution never took root across the Atlantic in the first place.