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[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

It's legal in most of the world, including most of Europe. I don't think legality is necessarily the greatest guide for how often it actually happens or social attitudes towards it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage

There's a map in there too of prevalence though and United States isn't anywhere close to the most prevelant, it's extremely rare. What's going on down in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Belgium though?

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ya know, there’s definitely some towns where I’m from that have shallow gene pools, not gonna lie. But I live in Alberta, we’re sometimes the Texas of Canada, and sometimes the Alabama.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah. Pretty much everything south of Calgary and north of Edmonton is Alabama. I’ve lived in every city in the province, and worked in a lot of the towns. It’s pretty crazy in some of the towns here man.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Holy crap, am I reading this right? In Pakistan, more than 50% of marriages are between cousins??

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

That chart technically includes second degree cousins and any closer relations. So if you don't count second degree cousins it might be less. But yeah there's a tradition of parellel cousin marriage especially in parts of the middle east, north Africa, and south Asia.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl -4 points 5 months ago

Yeah I actually knew that one from when I used to listen to Joe Rogan and Gavin Mcinnes was on there. He's a fucking goof but that fact was disturbing

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Dunno about Belgium but Italy, Spain and Portugal have quite communal family structures, at least by European standards. Not necessarily in the living together sense but in the you'll definitely see the whole extended shebang every other holiday sense.