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Originally Posted by TexanAvenger
Were this the case at hand, I would be less likely to attack your position on the wrongness of union between two cousins. However, among at least the one culture marriage between cousins is the preferred form of marriage... and thus your statement seems to come as an ethnocentric attack on other culture, namely those who either/both accept marriage and unions between cousins to be either openly acceptable (not immoral, and thus perfectly acceptable) or the preferred means of living.
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Ethnocentric? Nope. I'm not aware of what cultures (even my own) accept or don't accept cousin/cousin relationships, so it couldn't be ethnocentric. At the end of the day it's really as simple as my thinking it's gross. The taboo I speak of is the limited one that I encounter every single time that I bring up cousin/cousin relations - which is almost never. Basically, I'm guessing based on limited knowledge and my personal feelings. And now the poll. I'm sure many people, maybe most people know more about this than I do. The only thing I really know at the end of the day is how I feel about it.