Bride married her first cousin?
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 21:52 | 131 viewsPosted in category Weird
Druze bride Arwad Abu Shaheen married her first cousin on the armistice line between enemy states Israel and Syria, hugging her family for the last time before starting a new life near Damascus.
full article by AFP
Seriously!! There is something in that paragraph that puzzles me. Do they Marry their cousins over there?
I mean it WOULD explain a LOT, but really, … do they?
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March 13th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
“First cousin marriages constitute almost one third of all marriages in many Arab countries. The rates of these marriages differ between countries as well as within one country. Marriages between first cousins are favored culturally and socially and considered the “usual†or “expected†pathway in life for first cousins whether they were reared in close proximity or reared far apart.”
March 13th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
gfkas, that’s just … well… you know what they say about evolution.. inbreeding in a species will eventually cause it to dye off.
:dance:
March 13th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
So, it just loses its color?
March 13th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
No, interbreeding causes the offspring to loose the essential immunities to new diseases. While others may get stronger from natural evolution and be able to survive any new viruses that may be introduced to their climate.
In-breeders don’t evolve, they come from the same gene pool, so nothing NEW gets introduced. Hence… they die. Sooner or later.
March 13th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
You’re looking happy about that.
And my comment was in jest…dye/die. Get it?
March 13th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Oh! You made a funny from my typo!… Geez.
Goooood one.!
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