I took this shot in 1982 of a Nepali bride upon meeting her husband in an arranged marriage.
Posted on 02/18/2008 12:25:41 PM PST by forkinsocket
These practices predate Islam, etc, but that these practices persist in particular religious settings and die out in others is instructive.
That does make a difference and is simply evidence of the biological self-destruction occuring throughout Europe among the indigenous tribes.
We've seen this before ~ the natives get sick, tired, turn to serious depression, and next thing you know they're just dead.
Marriage to paternal first cousins preserves the tribe. That’s one reason why Islam is still mostly a tribal religion. Also, it’s one reason why there is so much violence among Muslims, whenever they’re not busy killing Infidels.
If their naming customs were the same as ours, it would mean that they would almost always marry first cousins with the same last names as their own.
The warring tribal Muslims in Pakistan and Afghanistan and parts of Africa are typical examples of this.
This is where “Cool” can be an ally.
Today in US dating your cousin or marrying her is something that is universally mocked at and those guys who engage in that are considered losers.
However, if you ask the guys who married their cousins in Britain or their Native Country, I would bet they wouldn’t consider it something embarrassing or insulting. May even proudly boast about it.
If there is going to be change in behavior, one way is to legislate, which would be hard to do, and other would be to advertise the fact how embarassing and pathetic this really is. Effort should be made to make Cousin-Marriages a pejorative term - something to be laughed at - and then it would have some effect.
Well, it will increase the number of retarded people the terrorists can strap bombs to so it’s all good from their perspective.
Religion of Peace followers also sweep the Darwin Awards.
;^)
So this is a big problem/controversy among the Japanese & Chinese?
I took this shot in 1982 of a Nepali bride upon meeting her husband in an arranged marriage.
Nice Pic. She doesn’t look Nepali.
Are you a Climber?
I want to one day be there for some big peaks bagging.....
Tradition is the first-born child of religion.
U egg me chicken
This article is stupid. I haven’t heard of any Christians stoning their kids lately, and it has nothing to do with tradition.
Religions bring about a certain type of society. I have also often marveled how a very small doctrinal difference manifests itself as a huge societal difference.
Agreed 100%. Ridicule is a sharp knife.
Not a climber. Hiked to 17,000 one day up there. Never anything technical.
Lots of imposing peaks there. Wouldn’t want to be on them, personally. I’ll take my risk elsewhere.
The other defense I’ve read is that by marrying a paternal cousin, her father in law is a paternal uncle - her father’s brother, who she dosn’t have to hide from and is allowed to talk to. Thus the girl is familiar with her new in-laws, who are not strangers to her. It would thus be the only set of future in-laws she could know before an arranged marriage. And given extended clan households, may not even have to move away from her own parents to get married.
Liberals apply family planning, genetic testing, and women’s lib in this kind of environment. I don’t think it can get worse.
Tradition is the first-born child of religion.
Tradition is what enables you to understand English. If you learn a second language, the teacher will instruct you in English. But the first language is learned by tradition. And spelling and grammar rules are tradition, which allows us to understand each other.
You bring in a bunch of ignorant foreigners to do the jobs no one else wants to do.
Why is anyone surprised that they bring their ignorant culture with them?
Sound familiar America?
I figure Britain is 5-10 years ahead of the USA in the madness of massive immigration & multiculturalism. It’s like watching a horror flik of your own future.
You got that right!
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