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By: David Boxenhorn

The antidote to cousin marriage is romantic marriage. Is true love the real basis of democracy?

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By: bob sykes

For anyone interested, hbd* chick has numerous posts on this issue and has collected a very large amount of sociological and historical data: http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/

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By: Chris Irwin Davis

Perhaps the negative recessive genetic traits that are more likely to manifest from consanguineous marriage will tend towards those individuals being de-selected in societal evolution. Steven Pinker...

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By: juan

Are the higher rates in Western Europe vs Eastern Europe due to immigration from cousin-loving immigrants?

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By: April Brown

Cousin marriage and romantic marriage aren’t the only options. In Western Uzbekistan, marriages are either arranged or, to a lesser degree these days, formed through random kidnappings. The arranged...

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By: chris w

Yeah, what’s with Russia and Ukraine being lighter than Germany? Seems off. #4 can’t be correct — Turks, Morrocans, Algerians and Pakistanis in western Europe don’t run the government.

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By: Kaviani

A reduction in nepotism, maybe, but corruption is very adaptable to social circumstances. Just look at the lobbyist syndrome on Capitol Hill if you want evidence, or any number of megachurch scandals....

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By: simplicio

S. Korea has an odd system where until recently it was illegal to marry someone from the same clan, which basically is equivalent to everyone with the same paternal lineage back to the 10th century....

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By: M. Möhling

@April > Karakalpaks are absolutely forbidden to [marry] cousins [while] ethnic > Uzbeks prefer cousin marriages … there’s an awful lot of … bad jokes > made at each ethnic groups’ expense...

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By: April Brown

@ 9 You know, some of them were probably funny, but I was such a hack at the local languages I missed out on most of the humor. People had to keep telling me when they were joking. So embarrassing…

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By: Justin Loe

I have high confidence in America’s ability to maintain its current levels of corruption in no small part due to the ongoing contributions to the same by all elements of our political system, and...

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By: Stolen Dormouse

Don’t knock cousin marriage–think Charles Darwin and Emma Wedgewood, who were part of two prominent families that intertangled in the 18th century, all the descendents and close relatives of Erasmus...

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By: David Boxenhorn

The antidote to cousin marriage is romantic marriage. Is true love the real basis of democracy?

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By: bob sykes

For anyone interested, hbd* chick has numerous posts on this issue and has collected a very large amount of sociological and historical data: http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/

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By: Chris Irwin Davis

Perhaps the negative recessive genetic traits that are more likely to manifest from consanguineous marriage will tend towards those individuals being de-selected in societal evolution. Steven Pinker...

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By: juan

Are the higher rates in Western Europe vs Eastern Europe due to immigration from cousin-loving immigrants?

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By: April Brown

Cousin marriage and romantic marriage aren’t the only options. In Western Uzbekistan, marriages are either arranged or, to a lesser degree these days, formed through random kidnappings. The arranged...

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By: chris w

Yeah, what’s with Russia and Ukraine being lighter than Germany? Seems off. #4 can’t be correct — Turks, Morrocans, Algerians and Pakistanis in western Europe don’t run the government.

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By: Kaviani

A reduction in nepotism, maybe, but corruption is very adaptable to social circumstances. Just look at the lobbyist syndrome on Capitol Hill if you want evidence, or any number of megachurch scandals....

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By: simplicio

S. Korea has an odd system where until recently it was illegal to marry someone from the same clan, which basically is equivalent to everyone with the same paternal lineage back to the 10th century....

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