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REASONS A POPULATION WOULD PRACTICE INBREEDING
Due to concerns surrounding inbreeding and its effects, levels of inbreeding dropped as low as 0.5% in the 1990s at the first cousin level in the general populations North America and Western Europe, and the levels were even lower in Japan. Even though inbreeding levels have decreased in western civilizations, many studies have shown that in many other large societies consanguineous marriages still predominate. In fact, in many large populations of Asia and Africa twenty to fifty percent of all unions are that of consanguineous marriages (Bittles 1991). There are several circumstances that would give a population a reason to practice inbreeding at a large scale. Some of these reasons for practicing inbreeding include royalty, religion and culture, socioeconomic class, and geographic isolation and small populations.
Religion and culture can play a large role in the amount of inbreeding that takes place in a population. In many Muslim and Hindu societies in Africa, Asia, and India, consanguious marriages, especially unions of first cousins, account for twenty to fifty-five percent of the total. These religions tend to inbreed because of religious acceptance, preference, and tradition. Moreover, the culture of these societies also plays a large role into increased levels of inbreeding. Consanguineous marriages are thought to be an advantage when considering compatibility of the bride and her husband's family. This is particularly important when discussing the bride's relationship with her mother-in-law and the up-keep of the family's property. Another incentive to close relative marriages concerns bride wealth and dowry. Consanguineous marriages can lead to greatly reduced or no payments at all in unions of this culture. This allows small landowning families to keep their property and land (Bittles 1991).
Other groups that are associated with inbreeding because of religion and culture are the small Anabaptist populations in North America. These groups include the Amish, the Mennonites, and the Hutterites. These groups settled in North America in the 18th and 19th centuries in search of religious freedom. These populations have shown increases in consanguineous marriages over time, and the high was reached in the 1950's when some groups reached levels of consanguineous marriages as high as 85%. The reason for the high levels of inbreeding is not only due to religion; it can also be attributed to the small isolated farming communities in which these populations find themselves. These factors of religion and small communal societies lead to limited choices when searching for possible mates (Agarwala 2001).
Originally posted by KRISKALI777
The prupose of theads such as this, is to get to the bottom of the matter; Arabs where a starting point! If ANYONE has further information such as: links to other ethnic studies other than Arab please include them also. And god forbid WHITES!
I got an idea go to texas stay there and tell me incest is "frowned upon" yeah thought so obvious troll is obvious gtfo my internets etc etc yawn
Originally posted by KRISKALI777
reply to post by rationaluser
I got an idea go to texas stay there and tell me incest is "frowned upon" yeah thought so obvious troll is obvious gtfo my internets etc etc yawn
My gosh; are you a troll yourself, and a hypocrite as well.......if thats not a trollish comment I don't know what is! You could be termed " Troll-o-crite
Anyway, I think we can define troll (in this instant) as being someone intiating a topic you don't wish to speak about.....WTF?
Why are there so many here that spring the old ridicule insults such as : Racist, Troll Blah Blah blah........you lot are a dime-a-dozen and should maybe habit a safer site; one that doesn't challenge your febble and predictable world view.
WTF are you all doing here?????