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Cousin marriages (we need to talk about this)

What do you think?

  • Don't do it full stop

  • It's fine so long as it doesn't become a generational habit


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Because there is no cousin of my age :sniper::sniper:
Mere sadgee dekh mein kyaa chahta hoon :guns::dance3::dance3:

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Yes, in the wrong direction.

Actually, natural selection works both ways, Sir, up and down. May be a reduced IQ confers a better immune system and a global pandemic with a superbug runs wild? Who knows? After all, the sickle cell trait improves resistance to malaria.
 
How are we Punjabis so different in this regard? In Jatt Sikh traditions, 2nd, 3rd cousins let alone first cousins are addressed as sister. Leave alone cousins, I can't even marry someone from the same Jatt tribe as my Mom, Dad, maternal and paternal grandmothers.

Is cousin marriage also prevalent in Pakistani Jatts? @save_ghenda

@Tea addict What about Haryana Jats?
yes all day long... im not a jatt. i just know jatts.
 
First consider this: The last I counted, I had/have 58 FIRST COUSINS!! Add in me and my siblings, it becomes 63! Then add in seconds cousins and I am sure the count will go much higher! Yes, we are quite a tribe! And approx 1/3rd to 1/2 of my cousins are married in the cousin pool--though none of my siblings are (my sister married to a second cousin though). And yet there is no genetic problems that I have heard of--perhaps because this practice has not been done for generations.

And I also suspect that, being in urban areas (Karachi and urban parts of India--yes, I have dozens of first cousins in India too!), there will be far fewer such marriages in future.

Avoid cousin marriages the fullest extent. Like cross pollinations in plants, humans should do the same: Marry 'outside'. Expand and an make interesting and robust human gene pool.
 
I know Pakistanis avoid this topic but it's crucial to have an open and civilized dialogue. It has to STOP indefinitely, the consequences are brutal. Anyone who supports cousin marriages is downright ignorant. The main reasons people still do it is because of sheer laziness, convenience and wealth/property distribution (keeping it in the family), has nothing to do with religion lets be realistic.

Prophet also married a widow, a woman 15 years older than him, how many Pakistanis do you see doing that?

Another observation: Has anyone seen drama serials on HUM, ARY etc.? Majority of them involve cousins have relationships and getting married. This bullshit is promoted by media and ingrained into the culture. Ironically, all the actors are light skinned, healthy, tall, beautiful, green eyed who are mixed race. They are half Pakistani-British/French/Turkish etc. Yet they promote inbreeding
 
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