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“ Whether that cultural habit is to reduce the incidence of inbreeding I've yet to find out, but it makes me wonder.” That’s racist. “The only way these people
by tonguez 5y ago
“ Whether that cultural habit is to reduce the incidence of inbreeding I've yet to find out, but it makes me wonder.”
That’s racist. “The only way these people are going to be able to stop fucking their cousins as if they come up with a naming system that makes it extremely clear who is related to who.” There are probably other explanations other than being inbred as to why they do this. Like how some people go by Junior or Senior. Do you think that’s to prevent inbreeding also?
- cdirkx 5y agoKnowing who is related too closely to you can be a problem on a small island, the comment was possibly referencing the Icelandic dating-app that tracks if you share a grandparent with someone you meet in a bar[1]; a feature the app itself calls a "Sifjaspellsspillir", or "Incest Spoiler". Interestingly the article mentions that this is a problem precicely because of the Icelandic naming scheme: > Neither patronymic or matronymic, instead each person's father's first name becomes the child's last name. Each new generation has a completely different name to the name of the generation that preceded it. Cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews -- all could have very different names. [1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/iceland-incest-app https://www.wired.co.uk/article/iceland-incest-app
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