Bill to make marrying your first cousin illegal in Tennessee passes but not without a fight - eviltoast
  • ripcord@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Holy crap, am I reading this right? In Pakistan, more than 50% of marriages are between cousins??

    • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
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      7 months ago

      That chart technically includes second degree cousins and any closer relations. So if you don’t count second degree cousins it might be less. But yeah there’s a tradition of parellel cousin marriage especially in parts of the middle east, north Africa, and south Asia.

    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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      7 months ago

      Yeah I actually knew that one from when I used to listen to Joe Rogan and Gavin Mcinnes was on there. He’s a fucking goof but that fact was disturbing