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Cousin marriage around the world


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2015 Nov 26, 9:03am   1,895 views  5 comments

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interesting that cousin marriage is the norm in islamic societies. one explanation is that your family is the only group that will protect you in that part of the world, so you don't want your wife having loyalties to some other family. you want to keep all loyalties as close as possible.

government around there is also simply the family currently in power, like saddam's tikritis in iraq, or the saudis in saudi arabia. you can't count on the government to treat you fairly, so that reinforces the need to keep your own family strong.

this also makes it seem charmingly naive to think that americans could just come in and set up democracy over there.

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1   MisdemeanorRebel   2015 Nov 26, 11:39am  

Dogs that are inbred are sometimes much more aggressive than their mixed breed counterparts. This can result in behavioral problems including biting, chasing cars and other animals, escaping and playing too roughly, among many others.


https://www.vetinfo.com/problems-with-inbreeding-dogs.html

2   indigenous   2015 Nov 26, 1:07pm  

Gary, how does this apply to the Zionists?

3   curious2   2015 Nov 26, 8:44pm  

indigenous says

Gary, how does this apply to the Zionists?

Gary is off duty today, due to the holiday, so please allow me to fill in and explain. More than a thousand years ago, according to Gary, some ruthless Zionists conspired to set their neighbors against each other. The Zionists called their plan Islam, wrote a book they called the Koran, and hired a violent sociopath named Mohamed (which was an unusual name, at the time) to spread it. The idea was to trick the neighbors to the point where they inbreed selectively for violence and end up cutting off each other's heads and killing their own children for "honor". As you can see, it worked. Now, nearly all Arabs and Egyptians are required to pound their own heads against the ground five times a day, on threat of execution. (According to Gary, the Zionists invented that little ritual as revenge for what Pharaoh did to Jews prior to Moses.) While most other peoples in the world, both religious and non-religious, have advanced, the descendants of Pharaoh and the lost city of Babylon have actually regressed. It's all been a huge conspiracy. The only question is, how to get the Muslims to realize that Islam is actually a Zionist conspiracy against them?

4   marcus   2015 Nov 27, 12:10pm  

thunderlips11 says

This can result in behavioral problems including biting, chasing cars and other animals, escaping and playing too roughly, among many others.

Breeds such as Afghans often tend to be extremely inbred and very neurotic. PEople that breed animals are not always ethical about it, because of the price that pure bred dogs will bring. If they breed them with their close relatives for a few generations they become very neurotic, skittish, and prone to disease. Why some breeds such as German Sheppards, have been far more harmed by these practices, and others such as golden retrievers (far less) I don't know.

5   curious2   2015 Nov 27, 12:38pm  


this also makes it seem charmingly naive to think that americans could just come in and set up democracy over there.

Or even that devout Muslims would prefer western values to their own. Searching for other sources on this topic, I found this from Australia:

"“In deprived rural areas, it’s a strong family tradition,” Professor Alan Bittles from Edith Cowan University in Western Australia told news.com.au. “It can mean a socio-economic advantage.

“It’s also common in parts of the world where there’s terrorist activity or civil insurrection, like northwest Pakistan, where 40 to 50 per cent might marry a cousin.

“You’ve got little or no control from the government, and there’s this idea that ‘blood is thicker than water’ — you can rely on your family more than even your neighbours. It’s a self-protecting mechanism.”

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There are 1100 million people living in countries where the rate of inter-family marriages is 20-50 per cent. Many families value knowing their new social circle and the medical history of those entering the bloodline.

Marrying a relative, or “consanguinity”, is particularly common among migrant communities in Australia.
Prof Bittles, who works at the Centre for Human Genetics explains. “In Australia, it’s second or third generation migrants from countries with strong traditions, like the Middle East.”

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In Europe there has been some movement, with Denmark banning marriage between relatives by equating it with forced marriage, and the Netherlands set to follow suit. Some MPs in the UK, where it is mainly seen in rural areas, said it should be banned because of health problems, but these were “grossly exaggerated”, said Prof Bittles, and their progress stalled.

“Until the mid-19th century, it was quite valued,” added the professor. “It was seen as favourable for a girl to marry into a branch of the same family, not an alien one.”

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Prof Bittles says he was “taken aback” when he first encountered marriages between uncles and nieces in the 1970s on a visit to India, but his tests on genetic defects showed only a negligibly detrimental effect."

IOW, they have their own way of doing things, and as far as they are concerned it has worked for them for more than 1,000 years. They and their predecessors have conquered much of the world. When they are offered even more opportunities, e.g. Europe, it only validates their belief that they "are a superior religion."

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