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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-10-12 06:46 pm

[ SECRET POST #3204 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3204 ⌋

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Re: AYRT

[personal profile] kitelovesyou 2015-10-13 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
It would be side-eyed by a lot of people in Australia, that's for sure.

ETA: If I'd married my cousin it would be seen as straight-up incest.

Fun fact: Charles Darwin's family including him were big into cousin-marrying as genteel 19C English often were, and the resulting inbreeding and genetic illnesses took a huge toll on their health. Darwin bemoaned near the end of his life that he was an example of evolution doing its best to end his line.
Edited (ugh can't english properly today) 2015-10-13 04:19 (UTC)

Re: AYRT

(Anonymous) 2015-10-13 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'm in Australia and I know someone who dated her cousin. Nobody was surprised, but that was because they were weird hillbilly bogans who looked deeply inbred already. It's totally legal here but very uncommon outside certain ethnic groups.
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Re: AYRT

[personal profile] kitelovesyou 2015-10-13 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Were they Tasmanian? :P

Yeah some people have carried their cultural norms here, but amongst white people definitely not so much.
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Re: AYRT

[identity profile] mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com 2015-10-14 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
My mother has a story about a couple who were cousins, but it was a one-off case, the family tried to keep them apart, and when they did marry they went through whatever genetic test were available at the time to make sure they weren't going to have something bad come up.

I have also heard it's more likely for genetic problems to crop up in a second-cousin marriage because a lot of inherited illnesses skip generations.