• killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
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      This is totally believable, but Europeans don’t think that America is more incestuous than Europe. They think that that part of America is more incestuous than the rest of America.

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          I always heard the “US has more laws against cousin marriage” as “we had to introduce full on laws because y’all wouldn’t stop fucking your cousins!”

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          Good question but I do know that there are a few towns in Vermont populated by solely one family making me quite surprised it’s Alabama that is the incest state and not Vermont I’d gladly take the title of desolate maple state over I fucked my mom state

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            True, I do think it’s weird they chose Louisiana for the incest part, but I guess that’s just their geography skill

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              I mean, yeah, they boiled down all of the SE to Florida and incest lol. I don’t think the map is supposed to be exactly accurate. And they’re not THAT far from Alabama all considered.

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      I like this kind of statistics, but it is counting only investigated cases? In this cases is common that developed countries with more woman freedom would appear higher in statistics. If you see only official cases you will see that Sweden has a higher rape by inhabitant than India, Bangladesh, Yemen and Brazil. This is probably not true, and is possible to happen because women are more prone to report rape in Sweden than in these other countries.

      https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/(A)_Rape_rates_per_100000_population_2010-2012%2C_world.jpg

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      Being Portuguese, I can assure you that we’re not doing it with our sisters, though I can’t really say how much marrying with cousins is going on (whilst I don’t know a single person who has done it, I haven’t exactly researched the matter).

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        It’s mostly cousins and mostly in villages. It was somewhat common (as in, it wouldn’t be seen as completely out of left field) to marry your cousin some decades ago. I know a few seniors who either married their cousin or know someone who did. However it’s definitely an older generation thing, I’ve never heard of someone younger than 40 doing it, and I doubt it’s that common these days.