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Except the incest taboo, which is not culturally dependent.
by DiscourseFan 2y ago
Except the incest taboo, which is not culturally dependent.
- wincy 2y agoI don’t know, I read a Pakistan Today article where a doctor said cousin marriage is no big deal as it “only” causes defects in 2% of cases. Interestingly, this article is now impossible to find on Google. You can find a dozen news articles of people in the UK arguing about this. Hopefully the discourse is shifting, but a culture can be dysfunctional (like allowing first cousin or even worse double first cousin marriages, for example) for a very long time before it collapses.
- DiscourseFan 2y agoEverywhere has an incest taboo, just not necessarily the same one.
- rusk 2y agoPretty sure I could find cousins marrying in Arkansas. No need to go to Pakistan. Ugly though it may be, it’s not big-I incest.