Dispatches - When Cousins Marry

[zippred]

If you take things further. Mining and other closely knit communities have high incidence of closely matched DNA. But this is taken to extreme. "MFBS" Keep it in the family.

Another interesting anomaly, if you look at any big institute, there is a lot of inter marriage. For example one hospital I worked in, a high proportion of the staff were related to each other. This was either by marriage or genetically, mother, father, brother, sister, grand parent, uncle, aunt.

So if you upset one person you upset everyone!!! It took me 2 years to become accepted.

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You have hit it spot on booktalker even my partner was mentioning abt the history of the royal family, He wished they had aired this in the documentry as well so people would have gotten to see a live example happen in this country.

Zippred you are right it all comes with the age and time...I genuinely wish you both the very best of luck.. I had to leave my home country to be with my partner, sometimes in life you do end up making sacrifices..But it will definetly be worth it once you are in a stage you are living together both of you will appreciate the relationship even more

[booktalker]

In a roundabout way, it seems as though this topic has got onto what Being a Traditional Brit is like. Maybe it shows sides of British culture that your British other half understands but you don't always recognise, especially if you've never experienced the real backstreets and roots of that culture, and the subtleties.

As kids, if someone insulted us or called us names, we were taught (by our parents) to say back: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me." It was a sign of superiority to show that what other people thought didn't affect you (which I suppose has morphed into the ridiculously egotistical attitudes of many celebs, but anyway...) - I thought it was interesting to contrast that with the prevailing South Asian attitude that insults are taken very personally, which is why you don't want your son or daughter to do something considered shameful. 

I also believe that if it's kept secret, it's OK, but it's a different story if other people find out. I know that there is a religious confirmation of this, in Islam. Is that true for anyone?