Posted on 07/18/2019 6:29:57 PM PDT by marshmallow
The head of Russias upper house of parliament says that allowing homosexual couples to adopt children would lead to the extinction of humanity.
Russia banned homosexual couples from adopting children in 2013.
What will allowing same-sex couples to adopt children lead to? Itll simply lead to the extinction of mankind, Valentina Matvienko, the head of the upper-house Federation Council, told a government-sponsored youth forum outside Moscow earlier today.
There are basic ingredients for happiness, I believe theyre universal: family, children and parents. We see how these foundations are being eroded, she added.
The comments are markedly different from the wests approach to homosexual adoption, where it is legal in most countries.
However, in Italy, which is currently ruled by a populist government, homosexual adoption is still not permissible.
The gulf between how Russia and most western countries view so-called progressive values appears to be widening.
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To the point, the caste system in india is not a factor in the cities or for people from urban areas rising. It IS a factor in the villages - where less than 50% of the population live, but that’s still 500 million.
The caste system or more precisely the “varna” system was a way of accommodating different, what we’d call “nations” — I liken it to the pre-French revolution Europe where you had different nations living in the same area. For example around the area of Sanok in south-eastern Poland you had lowland Poles, highland Poles (gorale - who spoke a not very mutually intelligible dialect), Germans, Jews, Armenians, then Lemkos, Bojkos (peoples related to Ukrainians and to Romanians respectively) all living in the same area with no issue. They generally didn’t intermarry, but they didn’t fight and they had their own defined roles in society.
This wasn’t as hard coded and stiff as indian varna society, but you get the picture.
The tragedy was, in India, for the lowest of the low and also when the system broke down. Don’t forget that India has thousands of castes - and the Premier for instance belongs to one of the lower castes.
I’m not condonings its persistence in the modern day, but just saying that your statement is no longer true in the 50% of India that lives in the cities and it increasingly less true in the villages as well - especially in the south and west of the country. The north, especially around Uttar Pradesh and Bihar is horribly retrograde in that respect - conservative you might say :) as in conservative to their old ways
I think fear and respect play a part, but also
1. A sense of shame
2. No counter culture movement as in the 60s
3. Not YET a breakdown in religious mores
During my childhood years I hung out at the neighbor’s house a lot because they had like 15 children, the dad had inherited wealth, never worked a day until he died of a massive heart attack, and had 2 wives living in the house. It seemed like both had a kid every year.
Occasionally they would ask me to sit for lunch, and all I remember is how much hot chili peppers they used in the curry made from beans, it was fire in my mouth. But those women were fertile!
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