White Catholic entitlement is a tough issue to beat in the American Catholic educational setting.  The only thing in my life I have found perhaps somewhat similar in growing up Catholic...I graduated from the very Carroll College MSW cites above, was White Irish Catholic entitlement.  It's tough to get whites to see they practice tribalism, and it's tougher to get Catholics to admit it. I've never quite understood why that is so tough for Catholics to grasp when our parish history is cluttered with parishes serving specific nationalities and sometimes within blocks of each other.  I hoped Catholic colleges would be less ethnic, and they were on the student level, but not on the level where the policies and academic programs were generated.