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Hahaha, well no. I just meant, could you write a longer description of the way it works, and what your opinion is of it (do you agree, disagree, does it feel normal, abnormal, etc), and then I could read it out loud in class or something... because the students always benefit from hearing firsthand accounts of cultures that are so different from their own.
"Cross" cousins are those who are children of your mother's brother(s), or your father's sister(s)... your parents' opposite-gender siblings. There are other societies where the preference is reversed, where they marry the children of their mother's sister(s) or their father's brother(s)... those are called "parallel-cousin" marriage preference... and the "cross" cousins are seen as incestuous. Go figure.

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