Why is Pakistan so Inbred?

Pakistan. Pakistan is often regarded to be one of the most inbred countries on Earth. In fact, the World Population Review ranks Pakistan as the second most inbred country is the world, but why is this the case? In today's video, we break down the many reasons as to why Pakistan is so inbred.
Remember to comment which other countries you would like for me to investigate how inbred they might be!
This video contains a fair chunk of data, but if you want more quantitative analysis, then please refer to this paper by Alison Shaw: www.tandfonlin...
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[@5556bbbc]

great video! you clearly did a lot of research and kept it unbiased and straight to the point.

[@AkshatSingh-j6m]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2a2npSPich_nZo

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

I remembered at 11:39 about the immediate post WWII term of "DP's" or "Displaced Persons" which you heard constantly, my mom said, the same way ypu heard it on Radio Free Europe after the War, people who had been displaced and that had no actual propertyy or home left, had no idea where their families were, and so on.....in "Miracle on 34th St" there is a scene with a little Dutch girl who was displaced and who talked to "Sinter Klaas" and that whole wartime attitude in the media....there was a comic strip called "Dondi" about a little Italian boy who lived with the occupation forces in Italy, as I recall....

[@mccookboidat]

Calling them inbred is biased

[@hawk5096]

No, it's accurate. ​@@mccookboidat

[@varoonnone7159]

Saying that Islam is not to blame is misleading I'm from Mauritius and Muslim Mauritians immigrated to Mauritius as indentured labourers from 1834 to the 1920s just as Hindu indentured labourers Most of the Hindus and Muslims came from current day Bihar Yet, to this day, cousin marriage is prevalent in Mauritius among muslims to the point that the government had to ask muslim authorities to discourage cousin marriages due to the heavy number of children born with congenital defects in these families

[@FreshLounger]

I once asked a Pakistani why they marry so many close relatives. His answer was, "It keeps the money in the family."

[@leonhenry4861]

Imagine having that idea for money, like Pakistani is the Mecca of the planet lol the place is a shite hole. No offence 😮

[@CrystalRaye]

Basically the same reason a lot of European nobility and royalty where inbred. Didn't have to split up the inheritance as much.

[@viciouslady1340]

And genetic illnesses

[@abhilash9918]

This actually true. We have some communities in india eho do this for exactly this reason. But majority hindus dont cuz of strict religious and traditional code. Indian muslims do it too but i dont think they do it for assets because unlike paxtani punjabi muslims who are basically a landed community indian muslims by and large are at the bottom of economic ladder. Search about practice of nikah halala and youd be surprised

[@rupsamukherjee3679]

They have money? 😮

[@vienogola1421]

In African culture...wait let me say Kenyan culture it's taboo...in fact you can't even marry within the clan...you find a mate as far from your bloodline as possible.

[@AthelstansSuccessor]

And still come out inbred

[@SakuraAsranArt]

Very sensible.

[@ChrispyDubstep]

In South Korea it used to be illegal to marry someone with the same surname as you

[@stevenmike1878]

in native American cultures it was considered incest to mingle with anyone inside the same clan tribe, so two tribes would broker an agreement, sometime men would visit the other tribe but the woman and children made stayed, or the woman would go to other tribe and stay with the new tribe.

[@ninagill1407]

Same as in the Sikh culture.

[@zgdafzgdaf4264]

Iceland has a family tree card to make sure you don’t mess with a relative. Also even the Pennsylvania Amish goes to the Midwest Amish to make sure new genes are introduced. I think it’s just natural to do this for survival.

[@godjesus2107]

To be a douchebag and pump and dump every woman in existence. Stop hating on cousins!

[@kjaubrey4816]

And Iceland has a very small population. It seems it would be hard to avoid. Glad you guys have ways to avoid that.

[@mghegotagun]

I thought Iceland has an app for that now.

[@gaius_enceladus]

@@mghegotagun I'm pretty sure they do.

[@45johngalt]

and in some REALLY rural parts in America (specifically the Appalachias) DNA testing is required to get a marriage license.

[@TheAvgWoman]

So, everytime I've been to a Pakistani wedding... I see several disabled individuals. More than usual. It's sad and such a disservice to your future kids to not give them a fair chance.

[@horatiohuffnagel7978]

Is it a bangin party though? Cousin banging that is!! 😂

[@UndoEverything]

Why are you lying? And what is the ratio of "every time"? Why those "several disabled individuals" are not visible when I visited Pakistan and lived there for 6 months? As you are certified liar, so according to your logic, your whole family is disabled because you spreading lies and you tell everyone that your family is healthy. Thus , you are needed to be admitted in lunatic asylum.

[@RavenHaili]

It's because they don't have proper morals, the children aren't special to them, just chess pieces and bodies they can control.

[@veraaddoyobo8482]

Another way to make money

[@daenytargaryen8929]

Well my ex boyfriend i dated before told me..his parents are arranging marriage for his brother to his cousin..i ask the distance and between his brother and his cousing..he said their mom are siblings😮😮😮😮... btw he have brothers who have mental issues...i dont know if due to interbreeding

[@ziopera9601]

WTF IS THAT SOUND BRO I THOUGHT MY HEADSET WAS COOKED

[@stevenmike1878]

dude i thought the same

[@Thejbelow]

LOL same, jiggling cords n shit

[@midloran]

It's just a background beat

[@fajaradi1223]

I think his audio interface or mixer is crooked.

[@Ash_Queen16]

Lmao right? I was like “what kind of music is this??” 😵‍💫

[@elonnut]

I knew a girl in the uk who ran away from her parents because they were trying to send it to Pakistan to marry her first cousin. She luckily made it away with help from the police & government

[@MolGaeilge]

Im surprised the UK government didnt extradite her in chains to mot appear culturally insensitive.

[@Truthbetold367]

Yh, and her family are going against Islam. You can’t force someone to marry another in Islam. This is culture not religion (although cousin marriages are allowed I’m forking about the force aspect which is why Pakistan is so inbred). In general if cousin marriages occur occasionally it isn’t bad and chance of child with genetic disorder is only 1 to 2% higher non related couples who have children. If it was Islam most countries Muslim counties would face the same problem, yet it is decreasing in places like Palestine and UAE as mentioned in the video.

[@toomanymarys7355]

That is very common.

[@rustledjammies8769]

@@toomanymarys7355 It's insanely common. It happens to Indians, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, Iranians and Afghanis, too, as well as those from a bunch of African countries.

[@N7_YES]

Parents ae evil... 😊😊😊

[@murrayeldred3563]

As I said to a British passport holder of Pakistani descent= Pakistanis may be around 3% of the British population- but around 50% of children with profound physical or mental disabilities causing a great cost to the NHS are from this background. He disputed this vigorously until I show he Statistics on the level of disabilities of such offspring.

[@mdas5990]

Do you even know what is Pakistan? GO and watch Harris Sultan, Pakistani Exmuslim. He will tell you the truth.

[@ponygirl6258]

@@blueboy3990 NHS, Born in Bradford studies, statistics on neonatal genetic anomalies in the UK. KZbin generally doesn't allow links, so you'll have to search up the sources yourself.

[@enkisdaughter4795]

It’s huge.

[@user-yh1qd7lj5f]

@@mdas5990 daniel haqiqatjou the slayer of all of your illegitimate fathers

[@FindingCreatures]

@@mdas5990are Harris or whoever that is? This is like the third time you’ve commented the same thing

[@theodoreconstantini2548]

Apparently first - cousin marriage in Pakistan is as high as 70 percent , that is incredible.

[@Adler133792]

Explains somehow the state of this country IMO.

[@ConstructionHoney]

Ah it's done over multiple generations

[@theodoreconstantini2548]

@@ConstructionHoney Yes it is, and it will take many generations to undone the damage. As one or two generations is not enough to reverse the situation as this has been going on for hundreds of years.

[@fangdog291]

​@@theodoreconstantini2548at that level of consanguinity, can the damage even be undone in 4 or 5 generations? Cousin marriage rates are increasing in Pakistan. Quite messed up

[@ronblack7870]

@@ConstructionHoney which adds up to time bombs genetically in society.

[@891Henry]

Keeping property/wealth/power in the family was the downfall of the Habsburgs.

[@stefanvas6984]

Also the reason for their rise to power... but I am not going to defend 1st cousin marriage in the 21st century

[@adrianromagnano6384]

The chin or something?

[@ChineduOpara]

​@@adrianromagnano6384 Yes, the chin. And other body parts.

[@fullmetaltheorist]

I wonder why and how they even made it this far. Like at some point all the cousin marriages would have a clear and visible effect on society.

[@ChineduOpara]

@@fullmetaltheorist Not always. Especially when the people involved are rich, powerful, and can hide things.

[@TheOfficialZombieWhisperer]

Why is it that tribal people like in the Americas are so strict on who could be with who, without formal education they understood how stupid inbreeding is.

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

What?

[@ZaneStachowski]

They're asking how Native Americans knew that inbreeding was a problem, despite a lack of formal education.

[@Lucas_Antar]

They tried it and saw.

[@flickrebeat8936]

Well because they did have an Understanding of Biology, and the way things should be, despite what White people say about Incas they did not Allow siblings to get married, only white people want that even today look at the South 😂 There's literally a video of A Girl whose cousin burnt a place cause he wanted her and she said no 😂

[@flickrebeat8936]

Because Formal education can be wrong 😂 and also they had an Understanding of Biology

[@CeruleanTalon1]

I had a Pakistani student who said she was so sad because she had not first cousins to marry. To her it was made to be the most romantic thing in the world and many of her romance novels were of first cousin marriages. She very much denied and was convinced that genetic inbreeding was detrimental, saying studies proved her right.

[@mdas5990]

Do you even know what is Pakistan? GO and watch Harris Sultan, Pakistani Exmuslim. He will tell you the truth. In Pakistan , mullahs encourage 1st cousin marriage as it is recommended in Islam.

[@carthicss1]

Doesn't she have brothers?

[@SopranosTV1]

It's all the romantication done by the Pakistani dramas

[@20SG20]

​@@SopranosTV1 Is this real?

[@SopranosTV1]

@20SG20 is quite real. It's like the theme of the majority of the dramas on TV. Two cousins falling in love.

[@Lilliz91]

Inbreeding is shown to increase aggression as well.

[@helendancelot]

I had not heard that

[@trevinschaerr3732]

Explains why the Middle East is so violent and why so many kings and queens in history have had unreasonable tempers.

[@komlat253]

That's why the world is so historically so angry haha

[@Abhishek-zq7ur]

@@komlat253u mean Pakistanis are so angry? Everywhere they go? For things that’s has nothing to do with them? From Charlie hebdo to Palestinian riots in the west!

[@Tate525]

@@komlat253 Yup we as a specie are pretty inbred.

[@tangaz5819]

Shared a house with a lovely pakistani couple in England, was a bit shocked when I found out they were 1st cousins. That was wild to me. Their first baby was sadly born dead. They moved back home and last i heard, they had another child. I often wondered if being related like that was a factor in their first tragic loss.

[@Tragic.Kingdom]

Yes , it's called genetic disease

[@thespectre717]

Most likely yes

[@jordanjay1479]

Islam permits cousin marriage. That's why it's so common

[@nunyabiznes33]

Almost certainly.

[@dougieranger]

@@tangaz5819 Highly likely.

[@letsgoeverywhere]

I work in medical research and in a particular disease group caused by consanguinity. It's not just Pakistanis (tho they are well represented), it's any insular community like Amish, Mennonites, Orthodox Jews, etc etc. Horrible results for the kids.

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

I've heard that the single most inbred group in America are the Hutterite.Is that true

[@here_we_go_again2571]

Arabs, Hillbillies, Rednecks, People from rural isolated areas

[@guycrew3973]

How bad are the effects on the kids

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@@guycrew3973 Genetic-based diseases and physical weakness as well as increased chance of mental deficiencies ("mental retardation" etc.), insanity, deafness, blindness " *The Consequences of Marrying Your Cousin* "(Genetic Disorder Documentary) | kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaqxgWapatKrf5o *List of genetic disorders* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_disorders

[@bornstar481]

@@guycrew3973it just depends on luck but everyone has faulty genes and faulty genes are recessive 90 percent of the time. So when you marry someone close to your genetics your kids end up collecting both genes for a dangerous recessive trait.

[@monojakennedy_3758]

In South Sudan, you cannot marry from your father's and mother's clan. Although in North Sudan, cousins can get married

[@djcoolbeat6934]

So the problem is Islam? 😅

[@monojakennedy_3758]

@@djcoolbeat6934 yeah. The problem is that people took the whole Arab culture in the name of Islam. They didn't differentiate

[@birdofthenight]

True. Inbreeding is very common among Sudanese people, but nonexistent among the South Sudanese, Dinka, Acholi, Nuer, etc.

[@agengsatya96]

​@@djcoolbeat6934 in the quran in qs. 49:13, the most preferred marriage is interracial marriage

[@orboakin8074]

North Sudan is Arabic while South Sudan is African. This sick culture is borne of Arabic and South Asian clan traditions.

[@Kwippy]

I'm a physician who has worked in various places in the world. I once worked in a devout Muslim country where inbreeding was very common. There were many children with weird congenital diseases, and many of them so weird or rare it wasn't even possible to identify the condition.

[@Lilac_liha]

What country is it?

[@20SG20]

Oh my God.

[@G36C-556]

bro worked in Nurgle's realm 💀

[@abhinashkumar3161]

Wow

[@KaushikkSahu-hp9dp]

Pretty sure thats afghanistan

[@TheGreaterBenefic]

There is no place for this in a modern world. I am a Turk and I think cousin marriages is a disgusting practice, that's why I prefer our original belief system of Tengri. It completely forbids any marriages with any person unless they are at least 7 times removed. I'd rather trust the science and my own ancestors than other people's ancestors.

[@Adi-bo5do]

Islam or not the Turks have an amazing history to be proud of

[@veliborb]

Old religions and beliefs were much more natural than these Semitic religions.

[@sherwinpatterson9181]

I am a Muslim and agree with you 💯

[@akashpatro9393]

Glory to the sky lord Tengri and his follower Genghis

[@Anastasis-is-here]

If you are Turk, the Ellenic Gods and the titans are your traditional religion, not something from Mongolia.

[@DeeKate]

I live in Toronto, Canada and about 4 years back, my Canadian-born Pakistani coworker married his first cousin. He lied about it being a childhood friend but then got a little tipsy at our staff party and admitted it's his mother's, sisters daughter. His first cousin.

[@sriya.s09]

no way... thats so weird what

[@intellectualcucumber]

Why is he getting tipsy? Isn't drinking against Islam?

[@okangulal2849]

@@intellectualcucumber It is against Islam, but either some Muslims don't care as they are not that religious, or have a different interpretation of the Quaran.

[@tiffany.Elizabeth.]

Absolutely vile

[@adrianadam8543]

Pakistanis or anyone are not Islam following machines. They are human.

[@DeclanWhite1453]

Growing up in the midlands you can actually see the population begin to genetically collapse in some places

[@obesetuna3164]

Lol.

[@DavidValdezBigWaveDave]

@@sarahhale-pearson533 One would think that would work but the gates were open long enough they're here to stay

[@zebraforceone]

Wait until you find out about Bridgwater

[@bosmerfromcanada3878]

DEUS VULT, dear Declan. God Willing!!!!

[@shirleynanono6428]

I don’t even think you know how disgusting that sounds.

[@isthisthekrustykrab_]

My friend in the UK works as a geneticist diagnosing congenital birth defects. The vast majority of his patients are of Pakistani heritage, and have closely related parents.

[@adrianadam8543]

The good news is the BBC reported that cousin marriage is going down radically among British Pakistanis under 30. So there is light at the end of the tunnel.

[@prospecops]

The main reason is because the vast vast vast majority of Pakistani Dramas involved cousins falling in love. It’s romanticized in the media.

[@Witchmee]

Doesn't that kinda sound like grooming? Usually an older male cousin and younger female cousin right?

[@mujtabarehman5255]

It’s unlikely that Pakistani TV is a cause here. Rather, the shows exist because cousin marriage is so prevalent in the culture in the first place

[@ronblack7870]

@@mujtabarehman5255 i agree entertainment will mirror society

[@minni2nandha]

Most of the drama romanticise cousin marriages, where girls call their cousins brother before marriage, ended up marrying them lol...eww

[@pradeepkharta5953]

Pakistanis never disappoint in disappointing 😅😅😅😅

[@uusrano]

That's probably why the have to arrange a cousin marriage to get married.

[@Arth-x3h]

Third worlder things ​@@uusrano

[@bhadwamodi8294]

99% of those Pakistani are from Punjab province of Pakistan.

[@Markhor579]

Can't surpass India on the disappointment list tho, You guys are on top

[@____________838]

@@Markhor579Pakistan tops them, they’re pretty much India, but with inbreeding.

[@carthicss1]

Punjab of Pakistan, not Punjab of India

[@The_White_Monkk]

Correct, there is no cousin marriage in India except some parts of South India, Total prevalence of Cousin marriage in India is only 8.6%, highest in South India, lowest in North East India

[@mohitji2054]

​@@The_White_Monkkनॉर्थ इंडिया में तो सात पीढियाँ तक छोड़ी जाती है दादी नानी की भी और गाँव में सारे भाई बहन के रिश्ते होते हैं चाहें कोई भी बिरादरी हो, यह है हमारी प्राचीन सनातन परंपरा और साउथ में मामा बुआ के बच्चों के बीच रिश्ते होते हैं वहाँ पर थोड़ा कल्चर डिफरेंस है।

[@The_White_Monkk]

@@mohitji2054 yes yes yes

[@sule.A]

With how massive india is i wonr be suprised if their top 5​@@The_White_Monkk

[@frankjames7272]

Its probably islam . one of the most romantic love story in islam is between Ali And Fatima . they are niece and uncle .

[@Reggy2000]

Excuse me, Sir, but South Asians complaining about racism is beyond laughable!!!

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

I accidentally dated my my cousin in high school. We'd been together for like a year which is like a decade when you're 16. And we were talking about our families. And she said oh I have family from South Boston. I'm from South Boston. She was from West Roxbury, which is about as far apart as You can be and still be in the city of Boston. She was like yeah, their ast name was O'Toole im. Like that was my father's name. I have a different last name. I haven't talked to that family since I was 7 years old. And sure enough her mother, my father were first cousin's. That was a strange day. I literally no clue whatsoever.

[@Mixed_Activist]

I discovered a cousin in class through a family timeline assignment

[@befrugalwithus]

What about Japan on this?

[@majimespirit8421]

Eww. Stuff of nightmares.

[@TheGrimStoic]

that's not even close to what his video talks about - these are waay closer like parents are not cousins but bro sis, bro bro, sis sis (same father same mother), and arranged with full knowledge and marriages not dates

[@TheGrimStoic]

​@@majimespirit8421 and yet, why would anyone share this with surname, town etc...- I recon he sill faps to it to the day - ask him

[@rockoorbe2002]

Pakistan is the Alabama of SE Asia.

[@ExsoulestzZ]

india too

[@user-io7sh7nx7c]

​@@ExsoulestzZ Inbreeding in Pakistan is 61%, in Bangladesh it is 17% and in India it is 7.5%. India has lesser rates than almost all Muslim countries and even Israel.

[@Lilac_liha]

​@@user-io7sh7nx7c India also has this problem lmao. Shit is not even banned in india country.

[@Lilac_liha]

Pakistan is in South Asia not South east Asia

[@ezrathegreatconqueror]

@@user-io7sh7nx7c Indonesia, as another Muslim-majority (86%) country has less than 2% cousin-marriage couples

[@KingSeven007]

The couple next door are cousins, two of three kids have severe physical deformities.

[@priskruger314]

Too bad no one has the guts to consider what can be done against it. And also sit down w these people and discuss that this must stop

[@Am-ih5nf]

Literally all of Pakistan married through the Gotra system which is designed to prevent inbreeding, but it was deemed haram under Sharia law for 100 years now.

[@laylaali5977]

Islamic law doesn’t dictate who you marry

[@iscifion7122]

Gotra is Hindu system to minimise inbreeding and maximise variations and health.

[@MissionSilo]

Gotra?

[@aurelian2668]

@@laylaali5977 yes it does XD, you cant marry non muslim for example

[@Ezzkill44]

@@aurelian2668 without lies islam dies

[@blackout-xm9cn]

Inbreeding is forbidden by law in Germany.

[@sophiem.579]

In Germany first cousins are allowed to marry each other! „Das Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch (BGB) erlaubt Ehen zwischen Cousins und Cousinen aller Verwandtschaftsgrade sowie zwischen Onkel/Tante und Neffe/Nichte - verboten sind nur Ehen zwischen Blutsverwandten gerader Linie (Elternteil→Kind, Großelternteil→Enkelkind) und zwischen Geschwistern (siehe Geschwisterehe).“ (Source: Wikipedia)

[@garethpritchard5458]

It’s legal in Uk too.

[@carolinegardner8214]

Stop lying we know you’re all cousins in Germany the Queen of England and her husband are an example of this.

[@1chibanKasuga]

Inbreeding between sibling not the one in the video

[@infidelheretic923]

Muslims aren't good about following other people's laws.

[@dallinweir]

Im surprised that you didn't mention the fact that dating or even just spending time with the opposite sex is religiously, culturally, and legally prohibited in Pakistan.

[@jasinere35]

the worst thing about it is they are trying to bring their way of life into every country even the incestrial & paedophillia stuff its not illegal to have bigomist marrage too which in most christian countries is illegal then they wonder why they are distrusted we dont hate them we just dont trust them, their men think that every female is fair game even if they are still at primary school which is something that hasnt been mentioned in this vid

[@tahaahmed7108]

​@@jasinere35 It's not you don't know shit about Pakistan even if they laws there never inforced

[@jasinere35]

@@tahaahmed7108 comment like that has to come from a paedophile

[@ultraali453]

Yes, the cousins have probably been introduced to each other at a family event. For many, this is the closest thing to dating that they have experienced in their life. Many also harbor distrust of people who are not from the family.

[@jasinere35]

@@tahaahmed7108 neither do you its your lot whos got caught child grooming in the uk

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

"Feminisation of migration"? Really? I was of the opinion that women immigrants were vastly outnumbered by young men, unmarried, under the age of 28.

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

11:02 I must add that these young women could almost stroll over to Saudi Arabia and remain with vastly more wealthy and available Muslim men than wasting time and money to follow all these illegals who run off through Europe simply in order to go to a place which supposedly once exploited them. Yet they seem to prefer it to a country that will enforce their own "eye for an eye" or "stone and unfaithful woman" or "execute homosexual men for breaking the laws of Allah by sodomizing other young men...." Seriously weird. They want to go to live in the country of the Great Satan.....and try to fool relatives at home by killing the unbelievers.....

[@TruthKindness]

He is speaking about well educated women who marry british citizens and then migrate legally. Your statistic includes illegal migration.

[@filiperosa7496]

Depends on time and place

[@Anivrat1]

Bro he's talking about Pakistani women

[@KateeAngel]

This disparity in gender is declining now. There are more women immigrants than before

[@Thufferinthuckotash]

1:43 You made a mistake. I just read the same journal paper and it refers to Punjab in Pakistan, not India. Cousin marriages are frowned upon in Indian Punjab.

[@SopranosTV1]

Yeah I know I was shocked to know that too😂

[@prakyathkumar8618]

Yeah ....if you do end up doing that the social consequences are not pretty

[@Truthivist101]

He made other mistakes too, like saying you can marry your uncle or aunt (???) KZbin is full of pretenders like this, they search on google for their “facts”

[@Thufferinthuckotash]

@@Truthivist101 Sad that he hasn’t addressed my comment tbh. I’m sure he has the right intentions and it’s okay to make mistakes if you can own up to them. I think he didn’t know that Punjab was divided between India and Pakistan during partition. Most people associate Punjab with India, but I expect in depth research if you’re going to try to educate others.

[@Truthivist101]

@@Thufferinthuckotash I don’t think he’ll address his mistakes - these are not small mistakes either, huge mistakes which show his basic lack of knowledge on the subject matter, such types think reading a single paper makes them authorities on a subject - who even mistakes Punjab, Pakistan for Punjab in India, it’s common knowledge and his accent is British so this is something he should have learned in GCSE history! In GCSE Religious Studies he should have learned that those religions he mentioned do not allow marriage between an uncle/aunt and their niece/nephew but he clearly didn’t pay attention in school yet has the audacity to make informative videos like this and call himself a shy historian!

[@Azda-emina]

As a pakistani NOT married to a cousin and not knowing anyone in my circle who is, this was fascinating. Pakistani daramas really romanticise cousin marriages...its so disgusting. Its 'allowed' in islam just like it isnt 'illegal' in many countries but that shouldn't mean that you just chase after cousin marriages in this manner.

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

Are you saying it's not allowed in Islam? Mind you, I also find it shocking that the overall majority of marriages in Pakistan involve relatives but that doesn't turn marrying one's cousin into an immoral practice. Just doing so in excess is bad. Marrying different families instead of only close relatives is very encouraged in Islam.

[@adrianadam8543]

If it’s 70% that means 60 million non cousin marriages so there is hope.

[@zhappy]

In Hindus, there is gotra system. Two people of same gotra cannot marry because they are considered brother-sister. People having the same gotra trace back their origins several generations back to a common ancestor. So this system prevents not only close cousin marriages but also distant cousins sharing a common ancestry hundreds of years back. Maybe you should look into it and make a video (although some communities have different exceptions like if you have same gotra but you can't trace back common ancestry going back 5-7 generations, then marriage might be allowed)

[@lionelproctor82]

Not entirely true. In South India, Hindus 🕉 practice cross cousin marriage; marrying father's sister's children or mother's brother's children.

[@Jaco059]

@@lionelproctor82yes 2nd generation cousin marriage is incredibly common in south India

[@lionelproctor82]

@@Jaco059 Indeed. Even girls marrying their mother's younger brother is frequent in Tamil Nadu. By the way, my own parents are 2nd cousins (common set of great-grandparents), and we are Sri Lankan 🇱🇰 Tamil 🐅 Christians ✝️

[@Maxr9724]

​@@Jaco059 mostly in muslims again

[@GrindingRepublic]

@@Jaco059 They're muslims bruh 💀

[@PratapSingh-qz9jj]

From India. We are from the Jaat Agrarian community / Martial race. When we marry we make sure that boys clan, his grandmothers clan and his mothers clan isn’t similar to the Girls clan. This is done to avoid inbreeding. Any violation of this rule is seen as marrying your sister. We are a majority in a very small state called Haryana. We win most of the Olympic medals and have a monopoly on wrestling. Good genes help

[@alburaq3290]

Martial race 😂

[@HenriqueSilvanyar]

@@alburaq3290 I suppose he means warrior caste, the Kshatriya.

[@PratapSingh-qz9jj]

It’s a silly classification given by the English. Basically we are hardy stubborn Farmers and make great soldiers.

[@ishpeeedy]

​@@HenriqueSilvanyarnope. The Kshatriya is a playable class where you are a warrior. Jaat is a community in Haryana region. That martial race tag was given by the British colonisers who looked at them and went " tall and muscular so you are a warrior race"

[@damionkeeling3103]

Aside from cricket India does seem to have an aversion to sports. The population would suggest they should be getting as many medals as China but that doesn't seem to interest the country.

[@michaelcaffery5038]

I once made a complimentary comment on a video of a Poshto speaking community in NW Pakistan. Among other things I wrote that they looked very Greek, maybe from Alexander's army. This was met with immediate indignation and denial from people of the same region saying not to offend them (they got very aggressive) as they were "pure bloods". As well as an astonishing lack of historical knowledge of the region this shows a xenophobic and racial superiority attitude. I'm not surprised that inbreeding is common.

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

Buddy, simply having more color in their eyes compared to other populations does not equal looking like Greeks. Even if your theory is true, the genetic contribution from ancient Greeks is pretty low. Not to mention the fact that their gene pool includes other populations as well. Calling them Greek is like calling Spanish people Amazigh.

[@michaelcaffery5038]

@@ibrahimihsan2090 I didn't even notice the colour of their eyes. What made them look Greek to me was their skin colour and features which would not have looked out of place in Greece. The contribution from Greeks to the gene pool may be small but it is possible that particular community is descended from members of Alexander's army or others. They didn't look typical of other people of the region. I didn't state categorically that they were. Just a suggestion they might be. As you say, the whole region has seen many peoples crossing it so claiming to be "pure bloods" is ridiculous. Why is the idea so bad to you? Because you are racist against Europeans?

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

@@michaelcaffery5038 For one, if you are referring to tribal Pashtuns, that's probably a case of them having pride in whatever lineage or tribe they believe themselves to be. Plus, they don't know your perspective and you don't know theirs. For all they know, you could be telling them that their great great grandmothers were graped by Yunani people(that's what we call Greeks). This isn't necessarily as much the case in urban areas. I myself am a Pashtun like my father was too but my mother is Tanoli and speaks Hindko as her native language. I hardly know anything about Pashtun traditions or my genealogy(just till my great great grandfather on my father's side and that his patrilineal ancestors came to Pakistan from Afghanistan in the late 18th century). In a span of a 1000 years, I could possibly have ancestry from several ethnicities(Persian, Arab, Turkic, Mongolic, Punjabi, Balochi, etc) but I don't know. All I know is that I am Pashtun and Babur because my father is Pashtun from a tribe called Babur and that my mother is Tanoli. I hardly know anything beyond that.

[@michaelcaffery5038]

@@ibrahimihsan2090 personally, I regard pride in ones lineage or tribe, along with the idea of racial purity, to be the root of racism. It allows the holder of such views to treat others as lesser beings. Think of the British Raj. The thing about their ancestors being abused is a very strange attitude. How does that make them look bad? Surely any guilt is to the people who do that sort of thing. If they do have any European ancestry it might not have been through violence. It sounds like people of the region really have a sensitivity to the suggestion and racial hatred. Btw, the people who replied to me almost certainly were not from that particular line/tribe but other Pashtuns. Like you, I have a mixture, fairly typical of Britons, of various western European people. Brittonic people, Anglo Saxons, west Europeans, particularly French, Scandinavian and Irish. Particularly from the Scandinavian line I am almost certainly descended from slavers and grapists (I hate KZbin censorship so much!) and the victims of such. It does not make me a victim or aggressor. Everyone in the world is descended from oppressors and the oppressed if you go back far enough. Even within the same ethnicity.

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

@@michaelcaffery5038 Buddy, you have probably zero concept of tribalism. I don't like it either but tribalism is a thing amongst a significant portion of rural areas in Asia. Somewhat similar to the South in the US. I don't exactly know what you mean by racial purity in the Pashtun context. If you mean that they refuse to accept that other ethnicities are part of their family tree then I sort of am familiar with that. Turkey has a similar problem where they believe they come purely from Central Asian nomads despite the fact that they are genetically as Central Asian as Messi is Indigenous Argentinian and are of mostly Middle Eastern(mostly east) and Anatolian(especially central and western) stock. Otherwise, I don't know what you mean. A certain number of Pashtuns may have similar feelings about their ethnicity and while that can overlap with racism in several aspects, it's not as simple as that. People have varying opinions about this kind of stuff where I am from. Some are blood purists whilst some are proud of having foreign ancestry(especially if Arab, Turkic, Persian or if believing in some 16th century genealogy theorized by some Mughal scholar, Biblical Israelite) whilst others don't care that much.

[@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558]

I watched a documentary about this and it followed a few families, they have many children. One family, one woman had several children most had passed due to inbreeding afflicted genes like, a type of anencephaly where they are born with partial skulls and only a minor brain stem. Some were born with malformed limbs and spinabifida. She didn't want to marry her cousin but it was the tradition of arrangement because they believe that a new member of the family should also be close family because an outsider wouldn't be "emotionally invested" like close family is. Good lord the living children she did have weren't meant to live! She had one that was blind, deaf and had physical anomalies, that child stayed in the house all day in a low high chair of sorts, just existing. Another one was mobile but mostly blind and deaf with violent tendencies. She was stuck with her 4 existing living disabled children to look after all on her own, the husband/cousin was never seen in the documentary but she said its not his job to look after the kids, only to create them. He wanted to keep trying for a "normal" child, it was so hard to watch, she was so miserable, the kids seemed to be as kept as she could muster, it was apparent they were very poor and oppressed. I can't imagine the shame that comes with not being able after years and years of birthing, not to produce a "normal" child so the insanity could finally stop. I'm sure she was finally happy when menopause hit and her childbearing years were finally over, but she has the rest of her life to take care of the 4 invalids she brought forth that actually do live for no purpose, joy or productivity. They don't believe all these issues are because of inbreeding... science is hard? Practical, physical evidence through generations is not proof? THEY DESERVE WHAT THEY GET AT THIS POINT, THEY ARE BREEDING THEMSELVES OUT OF EXISTENCE WITH FEWER AND FEWER VIABLE COUSINS TO MARRY AND BREED WITH. Perfect example of "you reap what you sow"

[@Tragic.Kingdom]

Name of documentary

[@bibivanderveen5455]

The Consequences of marrying your cousin. When cousins marry.

[@enkisdaughter4795]

@@Tragic.KingdomIt’s here on YT

[@MGold00]

I watched the documentary too. Cos as health care worker. In my town we have a small Pakistani community. Its was bit alarming wen we were doing years stats that in that community. Physical & mental disabilities is higher (x10) than the other surrounding areas & the number is growing even year. One of the Dr's said it was inbreeding. He recommended that documentary

[@zoeybella234]

@@Tragic.Kingdom This was one of them. It's mind blowing how this is not stamped out in the UK but they want to ban smoking in pub gardens. Unbelievable. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaqxgWapatKrf5osi=iGv8XupGxtJU1F3b

[@Mazalinda]

Here in the UK the pressure on the NHS caused by disabled children born from first cousin, uncle and niece marriages is well known. Also on the welfare state as more benefits are given to families with disabled children.

[@obesetuna3164]

Screw the system. That is their plan.

[@AF-yq9es]

Has the British brought any laws to stop this?

[@yucol5661]

@@AF-yq9eswhat laws to stop this do you want? People are already working to change attitudes and marriage practices, and marriage trends already where changing on their own just out of cultural change. Do some people really want laws like “Being sick is your fault, no rights to you”. “Nhs money to all citizens, except packistanis” Wait, I’m sure that’s what you want cause you feel those people don’t deserve the same rights as you even if they have the same legal rights, they are somehow inferior. And we all know laws will never be used against me, I’m the real British, I’m really in charge and the government works for me only /s

[@Lilliz91]

Not to mention aggression from inbreeding.

[@nicholasstgelais2112]

​@yucol5661 just stop rewarding it with funding.

[@Pintexx]

To think that tens of millions of people in Pakistan and UK have only one pair of grandparents is mindblowing to me. It’s 2024 and This tradition needs to die out!

[@Eric_Hunt194]

When your family tree is a monkey-puzzle something has gone very wrong 😂

[@priskruger314]

Seems like the western leaders need to sit w the imams and ask them to address this issue over and over.

[@qian4413]

@@Eric_Hunt194 In ancient Egypt a pharaoh's family tree looks more like a ladder than a tree 😂

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

Are you from America? Because I could confidently say America has way worse tradition based problems.

[@tamashbeen6610]

This is considered incest in India, among non-Muslims.

[@RakeshS198]

Some non-Muslims communities like Gowdas in Karnataka, South India also have cousin marriages

[@kiki40665]

​@@RakeshS198not siblings, they also see gotra

[@billmago7991]

sure it is😂😂😂 i believe you....millions wouldnt 😂😂😂

[@HrithikSD4368]

​@@billmago7991 you don't need to. No need to prove to ignorants. But to educate you I'm hindu from Jat Clan. And we can't marry people with 4 gotras(surnames) i.e. Father's, Mother's, Mother's Mother's, Father's Mother's.

[@thingswhatilike]

​@@kiki40665 yas in cousin marriage in Hindus are very common

[@lordsneed9418]

5:00 You made a big mistake here . "Uncles aunts nieces and nephews are not included in these prohibitions" This is wrong. Your screenshot shows clearly that it says "prohibited to you are your father's sisters, your mother's sisters , your brother's daughters, your sister's daughters" i.e. aunts , nieces , uncles and nephews are prohibited

[@southbug27]

There’s a higher rate of birth defects in America’s Amish community because almost no one converts to the Amish faith & the all of the genetic diversity is limited to the Amish who fled to America a couple or few hundred years ago.

[@essaboselin5252]

Back in the day when adoptions were done privately, the Amish used to adopt regularly. It helped them if a couple couldn't conceive, and they considered it better for the child rather than be raised in a single-mother home. Let me tell you - it's a bit of an eyeopener the first time you see a black Amish woman!

[@toomanymarys7355]

They still forbid first cousin marriage, though.

[@EB-jf5oi]

No you guys in the Americas are delusional. It's not about 'biodiversity' to usher in your clown fiesta, but about first cousins deliberately inbreeding

[@marcoprolo1488]

The only question is: What are Pakistanis doing in Norway?

[@MayankTrivedi2-bg3dg]

The same thing British did in their land. Enjoy now.

[@gotfan7743]

Norway allowed lot of Pakistanis in the 1970s as guest workers. Around 40,000 Norwegians are of Pakistani origin.

[@ElamiteFreeMan]

Selling Chicken Tikka Masala

[@komisossoutsidi5801]

​@@MayankTrivedi2-bg3dgNorway didn't even colonize Pakistan

[@LordGeneralOHara]

Asylum

[@nina27sky]

As a pakistani , the reason i have heard on why inbreeding is so common is because of a weird culture we have where once the daughter gets married she has to leave her house and live with her husband's family who are complete strangers to her and these people can often turn out to be horrible , so just for caution the parents think it'll better for their daughter to marry into their own family so that atleast they'll be safe (although this doesn't always turn out to be the case) , so as far as i have seen and heard from the women around me , most aren't interested in their cousins romantically its literally just for safety reasons (just my perspective)🤷‍♀️

[@LockheedMonster]

On the contrary, Pakistan is one of the worst countries for Women!

[@Cupcake0228]

I am Indian and although we dont have inbreeding cousin marriage but we have arranged marriage and people give the same reason that if we know the boy and his family it will keep the daughter safe 😅 I don't think that's the strange reason though actually knowing how women are treated in our culture its a valid concern but inbreeding is not the solution i guess

[@tofiqueasghar7147]

Tackle a problem by creating another. But, i believe that if those women are well educated and know how to be independent this culture can end

[@nina27sky]

@tofiqueasghar7147 Yes while women are now getting educated and finaling rejecting alot of social norms its obviously going to take alot of time for this culture to completely end since its been going on for so long and women haven't gotten their independence completely yet

[@puneetmishra4726]

Pakistan does not have a great record in tackling domestic violence either so surely this method isn't working. Well, we have this problem too but we have taken the approach of law and woman empowerment, that seems to be working.

[@kekhusetozao7641]

Sweet home pakistan.

[@YetkhaPakoAson]

Look at stats. Pakistan is not Alabama. It is Alabama on steroids.

[@osiand9328]

Islamabamabad

[@shakesinthehouse]

My pakistani friends told me her brother has a crush on their cousin. I can't look at her the same way anymore. she said it n a such nonchalant way that I wanted to change subject quickly as possible.

[@syedrafi2258]

Seeing your comment after coming from cousin marriage😁 However it is now declining and people are now aware and don't marry in cousins ,even old people now also aware of it

[@filmwood7979]

Reason 1. Islam 2. Pakistani dramas, with love stories of 1st cousins

[@flork130]

People are slowly moving away. My families is one of those unique Pakistanis with no cousin marriages in the family.

[@priskruger314]

​@@filmwood7979the dramas r ofc drafted from what lives in their community. I would not say its the fault of the dramas. Also they want to keep their daughters safe w family is another very big reason. Or a girl from their fam will care better for the family of her husband than an outsider

[@Shoutatclouds]

Birmingham in uk has had a real issue. Massive birth defects

[@obesetuna3164]

Yes I can imagine. A city full of Muslim half wits.

[@col.barnsby8595]

Imagine wanting this group to turn out healthy. You're digging your own grave.

[@HistoryWithD-n9y]

Could only think of immigratoin or the fact that birmingham is just being normal birmingham

[@Shoutatclouds]

@@HistoryWithD-n9y it's immigration alright

[@HistoryWithD-n9y]

@@Shoutatclouds Agreed

[@orboakin8074]

Here in Nigeria, and much of sub-Saharan Africa, most of our tribes forbid cousin marriage on grounds of consanguinity, even before colonialism officially banned it, incest was heavily frowned upon here. This sick culture is borne of Arabic and South Asian clan traditions.

[@EB-jf5oi]

Yeah you guys mated with chimpanzees

[@kalaidoscopez5388]

Tbh, African genetics are top notch. Admirer of African athletic abilities from India!

[@dreddguy6454]

I used to do maintenance work in the schools in the city in which I lived. The number of Pakistani children in the 'special schools' greatly outnumbered the percentage of Pakistanis' in the general population. Keeping the money in the family bears a great cost. To us all.

[@kimbonguno4741]

THE BIGGEST CAUSE..... THE USUAL SUSPECT: THE RELIGION OF PEACE... ISLAM

[@zurielsss]

Not really, Indonesia and Malaysia are largely Muslims, not much inbreeding Also much less terrorism, maybe that’s why

[@CheeseLovingGuy]

Lots of problems in Bradford UK from Muslims marrying close cousins

[@realtalunkarku]

And grooming gangs

[@sib1930]

​@@realtalunkarkuEspecially white ones

[@ishpeeedy]

Shhhh talking about them is considered "racist" ​@@realtalunkarku

[@megsley]

and these are the folks the UK wants to import in by the ton 😂😂😂

[@luciferjohnson8495]

Says who? Most immigrant population in UK is from India. Also India is diverse. Your logic is flawed. You are acting like that all of em are murderers or something

[@tamirheinhardt1606]

This has been proven for many years

[@SaadKhan-ii8ml]

As Pakistani.. this is because in Pakistan peoples want money and power remain in their family

[@LordGeneralOHara]

Abandon Pakistani Culture

[@watcheronly71]

That's not only their culture ​@@LordGeneralOHara

[@Kioki1-x8p]

@@LordGeneralOHara That's not their culture, lmao, it was introduced when they converted to Islam. Before that they had Gotra system that prevented cousin marriages, they're less inbred than rest of centuries old Muslim communities in middle-east.

[@mercedesbenz3751]

Wow I didn't know Pakistanis had so much money and power.

[@HistoryWithD-n9y]

They arent going to live long or even enjoy all that money and power

[@jonathandudley6589]

If I hear socioeconomic factors one more time…

[@Ignisan_66]

Its always socioeconomic factors. Never any other reasons...

[@osiand9328]

Socioeconomic factors forcing me to have 7 deformed children with my first cousin

[@alejandromaldonado6159]

​@@Ignisan_66Marxist theory blames people's failings on the society instead of the individual's choices/lifestyle. Which is why Pakistani cousin marriages are tolerated in the world stage.

[@alliwishis_2]

​@osiand9328 You are not even thinking about what you even saying The answer is right out of your mouth of what you are saying

[@thomasdonovan3580]

The two things you should never do, Square Dancing and Inbreeding.

[@flickrebeat8936]

😂 what's wrong with square dancing 😂?

[@drmodestoesq]

I believe the joke goes, "You should try everything a least once. Except for incest and Morris Dancing."

[@Clingerman93]

The U.S. isn't even in the top 10 of inbred country's. However the majority of the Middle East is😂​@ShadiwBanned

[@erikybarra3898]

LMAO

[@vavoropo]

​@ShadiwBannedFor what reason ?

[@ascorvinus]

Your audio sounds a bit inbred

[@Ash_Queen16]

Lmaoo

[@fullmetaltheorist]

3 generations 😂

[@francisadams-u9l]

You should speak to someone in the U.S military intelligence who do this sort of research. I have had many conversations with them that was eye opening. I knew that inbreeding was common in many countries, but what they told me was astounding. In the U.S there is a large Somali population. You could tell there is something not right with those people. My friend told me that the Somali population is largely inbreed. Bottom line, many cultures are still living in what can be called in anthropological terms, The Mammalian-Mesomorphic state. That is, Herd Security. At some point in the ancient past, property and cattle was wealth. Many cultures are still within the pre-bronze/iron age thinking. In ancient times, Herd Security worked because it was farming, cottage industry, hunter and gatherer economy. I have concluded that inbreeding is tied into a very rudimentary economy. Many cultures haven't yet realized the economy of the 20th to 21st century. That is, they are not thinking along the lines of the industrial economy.

[@theodoreconstantini2548]

At least Pakistan Norwegians are waking up, that's good. If you are living in a culture that says this is ok and normal then it is hard to break the habit. I think if the average level of IQ falls even slightly this will effect the whole society. As there will be less people highly intelligent people as a proportion of the overall population so you are "dumbing down" your population.

[@NeraBuffy]

No that's not good, look at what happens in UK when there's a high enough number of them who are able bodied. Like grooming gangs and open air machete surgeries.

[@FranktheHedgehog-u1z]

Why they have been encouraged not to integrate in the UK. The criminal elite we have want to replace native British with these.... easier to dominate and control with an evil cult.

[@flagshipbowtie]

Dumazz they've been in breeding for over a thousand years. They're already doomed

[@theodoreconstantini2548]

@@flagshipbowtie That could be the case.

[@ashleyoasis7948]

in uk its still socially acceptable

[@mikesheth5370]

European countries give incentive ! They allow immigration of close relatives!😊

[@-_YouMayFind_-]

Incest is actually not really allowed.

[@mikesheth5370]

@@-_YouMayFind_- That’s true. However first cousin marriages are allowed according to tradition and sharia! I was talking about many countries of Europe allowing immigration of close relatives !

[@keyboarddancers7751]

I worked for many years ('92-'19) in various social welfare roles in the Yorkshire, Lancashire & Manchester areas. It was an unspoken observation (open secret) amongst professional colleagues (social workers, district nurses, occupational therapists, welfare benefit officers etc) that cousin-marriage within the Pakistani diaspora is a catastrophic cost to the tax payer due to the proliferation of resultant congenital disorders and birth defects. Woe betide anyone who deigned to raise concerns about this issue.

[@adrianadam8543]

A BBC news report said cousin marriage is going down in England among Pakistanis.

[@keyboarddancers7751]

@@adrianadam8543 Phew; thank goodness for that!

[@virtualinsanity4446]

If that wasn't the worst, boys' first sexual experience is usually with their male cousins or their male classmates in Pakistan and it gets conveniently brushed under the carpet and never talked about again because they go on to marry each other's sisters when they grow older. I don't think there is any other country out there where casual homosexuality is so common. It could be due to strictness for gender segregation in the general public, schools, and colleges.

[@susanwestern6434]

Afghanistan?

[@Burtlocker]

@@susanwestern6434 casual? lol

[@nunyabiznes33]

​@@susanwestern6434Bacha bazi is a different phenomenon, those are boys kept by older men. The Taliban for all the horrible stuff they do, like executing people for listening to Western music, are at least cracking down on those feedoughfiles.

[@rudhra5957]

Tf ? Fr ? Well I guess humans are just animals at the end of the day

[@kennethkuehnle9872]

I've heard that the country of "pakistan 🇵🇰" has the most searches for Gay 🏳️‍🌈 porn in the net than any other country on the face of the 🌎 🌍 earth!!!

[@MayankTrivedi2-bg3dg]

1:44 It is not Punjab region of India. Sikhi communities hate cousin marriages. It is Punjab province of Pakistan. India census happened last time on 2011 not 2014. This data you provided is wrong. According to NSS 76th round cousin marriages happen at 0.3% rate in Punjab, mostly among few tribals or Muslims.

[@kalipiana3880]

this guy seems to be making this video as a propaganda thats why i think he purposely put wrong data.................

[@bhadwamodi8294]

99% of those Pakistani are from Punjab province of Pakistan.

[@MayankTrivedi2-bg3dg]

@@kalipiana3880 No I think it was a genuine mistake.

[@HrithikSD4368]

​@@MayankTrivedi2-bg3dg if it was genuine he would've corrected by now. Either he's ignorant or propagandist.

[@awesomestevie27]

Indian panjab is never called panjab province either, only Pakistans panjab is called that , no where in that text does it talk about Indian panjab, he just assumed And Indias last census was 2011

[@aman_chandravanshi]

In Hindu culture (mostly in North Indian cultures) We have a Concept of 'Gotra'. It says, one is not allowed to marry in same Gotra. And a Gotra consists of Family with 4 generations of men. That means, For my Gotra- Me, My Father, My grand Father and My great Grand Father, All of our family comes under one Gotra, And there shall NEVER be any Matrimonial alliance from the same Gotra.

[@dmoore8595]

In the US, many states used to require people to take blood tests before obtaining a marriage license. That was the 90s. I don't know if they still do. Previously, it was not only done to check for STDs but more specifically to check for DNA compatibility. But often people already have children before getting married. But DNA compatibility was always a good reason to wait. You could end up falling in love with a lost relative.

[@Witchmee]

Damn.. they should do that when you start dating or something instead. Imagine you're about to marry someone and it turns out he's a long lost half brother or something.

[@michealbadman6411]

Please fix your microphone.

[@The-Cat]

Please donate money for him to buy a better one

[@finophile]

I wonder if it was a deliberate ploy to obscure audio from AI examination

[@AA-yc9dq]

How can you sit there and spend hours editing a video and not notice that insufferable noise? Or did he just not care?

[@marcelacristina129]

Argh. Why people want to live like it's the middle ages is beyond me

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

Because not everything isn't your cup of tea is the Middle Ages. would you like me to consider homoeroticism something that belonged to the Antiquity period?

[@The_White_Monkk]

I am from India, Hinduism is mostly practised here(79%), there is no cousin marriage in India except some parts of South India, but very few of them marries their 1st cousin for sure... In India the prevalence of Cousin marriage is overall 8.6%, The Highest prevalence in the South India , and the Lowest in the North-East India.. Cousin marriage is mostly seen in some of the Indian Muslim Families, Parsi Families and some South Indian Hindu Families

[@Cupcake0228]

Hindu and parsi family are mostly cross cousin marriage

[@Amoghavarsha.]

Some cancer cult people are doing this in india too

[@HrithikSD4368]

Based

[@pajeetkumar1645]

@@The_White_Monkk *Ah, my dear fellow, I do beg your pardon, but let us not dwell on the matter of cousin marriages. After all, I understand that in your culture, such refined distinctions are perhaps of little concern, given that even the union with a stray dog might be considered perfectly acceptable.*

[@tonyraffetto931]

8.6% is a lot

[@reinokarvinen8845]

australian aboriginals had traditional rules how to avoid inbreeding

[@col.barnsby8595]

Didn't help them to become anything though lmao. They exist solely due to the good will of the Anglo-Celtic culture-bearers and this good will is running out

[@FodaseNaoLigo]

British imperialism is the reason they are not developed , killed 90% of their population, dont worry muslim immigrants will do the same with western europe​@@col.barnsby8595

[@DaisyMaeMoses]

Very complex rules and the rules applied for centuries back!

[@abhilash9918]

Even paxtanis didnt do it till they were infected by the islamic vir,us. Look at the comments. Almost every tribe or ancient people had rules against it but islam is trojan horse that corrupts the operating system.

[@horsepuncher95]

​@@col.barnsby8595Bold of you to assume most Aussies ever had good will towards them

[@varoonnone7159]

Saying that Islam is not to blame is misleading I'm from Mauritius and Muslim Mauritians immigrated to Mauritius as indentured labourers from 1834 to the 1920s just as Hindu indentured labourers Most of the Hindus and Muslims came from current day Bihar Yet, to this day, cousin marriage is prevalent il Mauritius among muslims to the point that the government had to ask muslim authorities to discourage cousin marriages due to the heavy number of children born with congenital defects in these families

[@Azothoth827]

same could be said about christianity right? many christians dont actaully pay attention to their religon and do bad things so with your logic ""saying that christianity isnt to blame is misleading",cousin marriage is not encouraged in islam and if pakistanis learned about islam they might have still married their cousins but not excessively most edujacted muslims dont are against it,learn about islam brother/sister before spreading misinformation,i would never udge a uculture before understanding the people and their texts,and also there is alot of economic pressure.

[@Logan55689]

@@Azothoth827Keep repeating that to yourself, maybe one day you'll convince yourself it's true. Cope harder.

[@Azothoth827]

@logan55689 yea if you are a scholar that knows every inch of islam,i m against it aswell,you cant even tell the basics of what we believe,how about actually learning about us? islam probits excessiveness in anything if it brings harm,

[@Azothoth827]

and how is it cope when i also am against inbreeding situation?who knows more about islam?you or me who has been gaining knowledge since birth for 18 years,i dont follow blindly i question each aspect of my faith

[@pkhaloobonaccio9883]

depi kan linn dire sa? It's true that cousin marriage is more prevalent in Muslims in Mauritius . However, it is very small compared to other countries . This is because many Muslim actually came from merchants background , this is why many have successful businesses in Mauritius. Also we have a fair share of high achieving Muslim in academics, if incest was super prevalent , the overall IQ of Muslims would have been lower than other races . However, although they form less than 20% of the Mauritian population , they are very represented in scholarship entrance exams awards . Which is not really the case for the 2nd most populated race in Mauritius , the African Creole . How do you explain this ? Btw Im a Mauritian , and my race is from the majority race of the country .

[@kellmac]

I've seen a documentary about this a few years ago. They move to other countries and don't want those countries interfering with their traditions. Then they don't mind becoming a burden on the healthcare systems of those countries, and living off the dole.

[@rizsarwar2713]

same can be said bout europeans who get pist get drunk then have accidents due to being too piste which is burden on the nhs healthcare plus most of them on the dole themselves.

[@T-Ball-o]

Good for them, but woe for the countries who let them in.

[@kellmac]

@@rizsarwar2713 - The difference is what you describe is usually a one-time occurrence. In the UK alone, "British Pakistanis account for 30% of all British children with recessive disorders, which include cystic fibrosis." That means a lifetime of heathcare.

[@Jaco059]

@@rizsarwar2713ya welfare states should pay for the worlds problems not their own people

[@susanwestern6434]

To point this out falls foul of PM Starmer's thought police.

[@WildKat25]

Several Provinces in Canada (Alberta and Ontario in particular) actually had laws against cousin marriage unless they were 3rd or more removed cousins. Blood tests used to be submitted to ensure it. Unfortunately, the federal government of Canada changed the laws in 2008 to allow first cousin marriage all across Canada (most likely at the urging of immigration that culturally allows cousin marriage). Now, legally, first cousins, uncles/nieces, and aunts/nephews are allowed to marry in Canada due to cultural interference from immigrants. I say this as someone who has an immigrant parent (though their country doesn't allow cousin marriage).

[@dawnelder9046]

I did not know that those laws were changed. Time to change them back. Our medical system is failing as it is.

[@manuelredgrave8348]

Who in their right mind at the canadian government thought that changing a country's law to be in favor of incestuous immigrants was a good idea??!?

[@haileytyers1360]

This law was changed so quietly too. I dont think any of us knew about it happening. As an Albertan my parents were in shock when my husband and I didnt need to submit blood test results prior to our wedding in 2014. (Though there was no chance of us being related, thank god.)

[@megsley]

oh, Canada, no 🤢🤮

[@priskruger314]

Ugh. Such bad news. The law would have protected the right of unborn children. Hopefully it will be reversed!

[@lloyddale3818]

There is an hospital in Sydney Aust that has a birth defect rate of 7 times the National average. It is in an area with a very high population of a certain faith.

[@birdofthenight]

Just say Muslims/Islam. What's the fear about?

[@sib1930]

​@@birdofthenightYou'd never say it in the real world tho

[@birdofthenight]

​@@sib1930 You probably think I'm from your locale or something? As a survivor of an Islamic terror attack from a country that has borne the brunt of Islam terror so many times, I can say pretty much anything as long as "community standards" allow it. We know them very well and don't live in fear or awe of them like you guys and they know it. On the other hand, they know you guys fear them that's why they take advantage of your countries and systems so easily

[@tobehonestidkwhattoputhere]

@@birdofthenight I'm genuinely so sorry you had to face something like that. Hope you're doing better. How are you holding up? (if you feel comfortable sharing ofc)

[@birdofthenight]

@@tobehonestidkwhattoputhereThank you. Search for the "Garissa University massacre" on the web (147 killed in cold blood). I was a teaching assistant by then. The experience is a NIGHTMARE. They always single out non-muslims openly and kill them on the spot. Local Muslims harbor and support them openly (jihad), while our leaders (politicians) make things easy for them through policies that allow them to come in easily (disguised as helpless refugees!). It's a very complex situation and any non-muslim from my country would readily ridicule you for fearing them

[@realdoctortenenbaum]

Finally you tackle a topic that incest researchers otherwise avoid for reasons of political correctness!

[@mybeaniebooz9601]

"But theres no studies saying that breeding with your cousin causes deformities!!!" Riiight 😂

[@yucol5661]

They don’t avoid it. The guy literally showed research papers on it. Scientist don’t avoid much of anything, like MSG or criminology or bibble archeology. Harder when it’s not a profitable field, and healthcare generally is.

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

Tons of incest researchers discuss it. Even Pakistani newspapers. You don't need to be a bigot to point such practices out.

[@chrisd924]

Birth defects in Bradford in the UK are double the national average although first cousin marriages have declined since 2010. Its not just the Pakistani communities - look no further than King Charles if you want to see a prime example of inbreeding.

[@cass7200]

He's not that inbred. Even totting up all the historical relative marriage in his parents lines he still comes out a fair amount less inbred than a kid of first generation first cousin marriage.

[@kaneworsnop1007]

It's not just the Royal family in the UK, but the nobles/old money. When you meet a posh sounding person they often have the horse like facial features, the large top teeth (just think of the common posh person caracture). That's because all the noble minority wouldn't marry the common masses. So a degree on inbreeding occurred, due to a relatively small community. By looks alone you can often tell the differance between someone who is true old money and former nobility, compared to the industrial revolution old money as they are less inbred and were looked down on by the nobility. The royal family is then worse again as they generally married other royals, mostly to secure alliances with other countries, so even more inbreeding occurred. Fortunately its started to become slightly more acceptable for royals to marry people with slightly less noble blood, so their genetics will gradually improve. I cant remember if it is sickle cell or another genetic disease which is thought to be prevalent in the royal family due to inbreeding.

[@ococototo]

@@kaneworsnop1007 its haemophilia

[@mehrcat1]

Royalty is famously inbred. Do a search for the 'Habsburg Chin'.

[@T-Ball-o]

Yes, very apropos comparison. Not.

[@kaoper]

6:20 To be honest, speaking as Pole, I don't think that arranging marriages is still part of polish culture. It was normal practice in times of nobility and aritocracy, just like in other parts of Europe, but now it certainly is a thing of the past. So, if it's not a problem, could you give source to that claim, because I myslef don't know about any arranged marriage or even heard about one?

[@anythingbut...]

As another Pole I can support that opinion. We even have a tradition of boyfriend coming for a dinner to meet girlfriend parents, and another dinner like that when he asks if he can marry their daughter (not so much now, more like parents and grandparents generations, and I am around my 40s). That would make zero sense if parents already knew or arranged the marriage already. Don't think Italians and Irish have any arranged marriages as well. Some Roma communities have that but that's sporadic as well as they have tradition called "grabbing" which doesn't involve parents of any party. The whole video is littered with mistakes looking at comments, not only this one.

[@ACMR6297]

Only 3 minutes in but I’ll take a stab in the dark: It’s a consequence of loneliness within the younger generation. Sure older Pakistanis also married first cousins, but younger generations are more inclined as it represents a means to escaping their loneliness. The reason why they would marry their first cousins rather than another Pakistani from outside the family could be twofold: one is that they may already be familiar with the individual and aware of who they are getting hitched to; second it preserves the family’s wealth.

[@Tragic.Kingdom]

Get to know other ppl

[@ponygirl6258]

Not sure why they would be more lonely than earlier generations, since there are more Pakistani-British now than ever before. Also, Pakistani-British men are not infrequently married to Pakistani cousins they barely know. It really has to do with religion, tradition, and money.

[@KOOLBadger]

And people make fun our mountain folks in the USA..😂..

[@Ash_Queen16]

Right? That’s peanuts compared to this!

[@dwaynekeenum1916]

Yeh it’s Mickey mouse

[@bigdaddy7729]

But u mountain folks do with ur real sister and stuff!!!

[@KOOLBadger]

@@bigdaddy7729 what? Not anymore you stupid. And all royality are closely related! Queen Elizabeth II married her cousin Philip. All those folks are related. Are you a child?

[@KOOLBadger]

@@dwaynekeenum1916 ?

[@Tarotaro23-k5r]

FALSE, It is about Islam. In india we have arranged marriages (aka rishte) but it’s taboo for cousins to marry, in Hindu culture cousins are seen as siblings.

[@NRse99]

Christ, that buzzing sound is deafening. Please fix

[@inaligrimalkin]

Oh thank goodness i thought it was my headphones!

[@NRse99]

@@inaligrimalkin Same here at first, haha!

[@midloran]

Why? It's funny, let the funny stay

[@NRse99]

@@midloranI disagree, but I'm glad you enjoy it at least : )

[@ronjared2204]

​@@inaligrimalkinme too... I was going to switch off my phone!

[@OutOfElmo]

Why should Europeans and western nations have to be saddled with the costs of this? Are we benefiting in some way?

[@baron420]

nope we are not

[@Adam-wg2rf]

Agree😔

[@col.barnsby8595]

You're benefitting in a way that now you understand that you don't need to be compassionate towards this debris this time. TNWD!

[@birdofthenight]

Sorry to disappoint you! Inbreeding has been common among Europeans for ages and in the U.S., especially in Alabama, Arkansas, West Virginia, etc. Nonexistent in Africa except among North Africans (Arabs)

[@OutOfElmo]

@@birdofthenight Common? You're deluded, or lying. As for Africans, they don't need to be inbred to cost their host nations billions. They're as destructive as a plague of locusts just the way they are.

[@FFGG22E]

I've been to Pakistan. I was working on a military base. I spoke with the soldiers there and they told me about the cousin marriage. When I was leaving there was a mob scene at the airport in Islamabad because they were all going to them UK for Ramadan. I saw a number of families with multiple mentally disabled children. Frequently most of the children would have the same face, they would look exactly the same and were mentally deranged.

[@bugleboop]

I think I heard somewhere like top countries of cousin marriages are all over the middle east if I recall it's either sudan or somali that is even higher.

[@carolinegardner8214]

The Moslem part of Sudan not the Bantu south

[@birdofthenight]

No inbreeding among Somalis. It is a taboo. Inbreeding is an Arabic thing, and Somalis are NOT Arabs

[@birdofthenight]

@@carolinegardner8214 South Sudanese ethnic groups are all nilotic, not bantu

[@keshi5541]

@@carolinegardner8214 Since when are south sudanese Bantu?

[@metelicgunz146]

Why do we allow these people in?

[@rawahapool]

Why did you allowed the colonizers?

[@bengaldevilbdgr6956]

Even in India muslims marry among their cousins though the numbers not as much as pakistan .Converted muslims tend to marry among themselves may be becoz of identity crisis.

[@MrPapageorgio]

The buzzing is really distracting. Goes for about 7 seconds at 3:05 I'm trying to give the video a shot but it's trying.

[@bensturdavant554]

lol made a comment for 2 secs

[@wastelandvagrant251]

The buzzing continues at least 3 minutes. That's when I gave up.

[@himanshusirohi2403]

Pakistani Punjab not Indian Punjab

[@GmS11]

Indian Punjabi especially Khatri bhi inke jaise hain bhai .

[@Kioki1-x8p]

The guy who 'researched' literally states Indian Punjab, lmao 🤣

[@nctjay]

Ew why you would marry your cousin?

[@CarolineIronwill]

to keep money and power in the family.

[@nctjay]

@@CarolineIronwill the history the habsburgs should be taught in pakistan

[@drmodestoesq]

@@nctjay Weren't the Hapsburgs insanely rich and powerful? That's gonna sound like an endorsement of inbreeding.

[@nctjay]

@@drmodestoesq Fine then show them the whittaker family

[@dennismukoyatv]

​@@drmodestoesq It will not. There is no amount of wealth in this world that can offset the detrimental impact of inbreeding.

[@mehak-GB]

In Pakistani society, a cousin is neither sister nor brother. In fact, there is a segregation of genders where cousins are not allowed to intermingle with each other. Arranged marriages are more common than loved ones. In Pakistani social structure, marriage is the union of families not the union of couples. There are problems of domestic violence and honor killings also which prompt the parents to marry their children in the family to secure their daughters so that if something happens they can control the situation. Thirdly, the Pakistani social structure tends to make their own family stronger and marriages in the same family strengthen the bond with respect to power and money in society.

[@TarekRamara]

It’s basically due to their conversion. Ghar vapsi is the only solution and now even Arabs have orphaned them. Keep fake Arab names will not make them Arabs but just wannabes

[@birdofthenight]

At what cost?

[@TarekRamara]

Only if prophet knew about genetic defects

[@bwa_8]

It doesn't make the family stronger... This is literally regarded.

[@mehak-GB]

@@bwa_8 Socio-political structure gets stronger with respect to land and social structure. Also unlike the west, people tend to more drawn to their families and if some one torture one family member then whole family consisting of even 500 mebers come to save them. In pushtun region, even whole tribe comes for him. Mostly people consider genetic science as conspiracy.

[@cruisesoetz1087]

It was a common practice in the 90s and early 2000's a british Pakistani child would be taken and married to thier cousin from a village of which they had no interaction with, due to family loyalty land and wealth. However today the Brit Pakistani community are marrying different ethnicities.

[@adrianadam8543]

That’s what I noticed too. The younger British Pakistanis are not only avoiding cousin marriages. They are involved in a lot of interracial marriages.

[@chadwhitman1811]

I think one reason might be the use of the broad term Pakistani which by nationalist standards would imply one cohesive group. Pakistani has to do with citizenship not ethnicity. In fact Pakistan has at least thirteen ethnic groups ." The major Pakistani ethnolinguistic groups include Punjabis, Pashtuns, Sindhis, Saraikis, Muhajirs, Balochs, Hindkowans/Hazarewals, Brahuis, Meos, and Kohistanis" .Plus there are other sizeable minorities. That is not to include various religious groups all with their own subculture and identity. To an outsider they are all Pakistani ,but all those groups are tightly bonded communities and it's members want to marry in that group.

[@KOOLBadger]

Gross aye'?

[@moh__shuvuu]

This is true. However if they’re first cousins, they are probably in the same ethnicity, right? But not all people of the same ethnicity are first cousins.

[@chadwhitman1811]

@@moh__shuvuu This is true. However a smaller population group such as any ethnic group in the UK ,the pool of likely brides thar are not related to you becomes less and less .To take another group such as Icelanders ,very little in migration the gene pool is so restricted they publish lists of who is related to who.I noticed Qatar is also mentioned ,the percentage of Qatari subjects that are citizens is small and most of rest are subjects are of non Quatari descrnt.The advantages of be a citizen in Qatar are great which makes it an exclusive club.

[@diorocks5858]

I worked in Bahrain and Pakistanis and Bangladeshis have a DNA test before being offered a Work Contract as hey became a strain on the medical health system. Each ethnic group in Pakistan in breed and stay within the ethnic group.

[@Lilac_liha]

​@@diorocks5858 Bangladesh? Arent they mostly homogeneous?

[@brianbrady139]

its kind of a common joke that Ireland and Irish people are inbreeded and it would be interesting to see how valid this stereotype is

[@asmirann3636]

Not only Ireland but many other European ethnicities are inbred too. Incest was a common practice in Europe till the 19th century. Entire Royalty across Europe are inbreds. Finns, Swedes, Germans, Dutch, English have all engaged in incest. Even Americans have the same problem and it's still practiced in some religious communities of US. Therefore, incest was common in Europe till the 19th century. With advancement in science, people were made aware of its dangers and this is how it ended.

[@bahoonies]

Consanguinity in Ireland seems to be confined to the traveller community, Pakistanis, Indians and Nigerians.

[@Pinicle_of_evolution]

​@@bahooniestf did Indians do lmao

[@nunyabiznes33]

There's a possibility. They almost got wiped out by the potato blight.

[@Pinicle_of_evolution]

@@nunyabiznes33 they almost got wiped out cuz of the b@stard british that leached off thier agricultural resources

[@wayausofbounds9255]

I'm not disagreeing with you that there are multiple reasons for the proliferation of first cousin marriages, but you almost completely glossed over the financial manipulation, and it's not just financial. It's a lot more difficult for someone to put up reasonable boundaries with family when you have no familial support at all to do so. When both your parents and in-laws have an interest so closely aligned it's very easy for pressure to become abusive. When doing what you feel is best for your immediate family will get both you and your spouse disowned, that's almost impossible to resist. That's a huge reason why older generations proliferate familial marriages.

[@birdofthenight]

at what cost to the health and well-being of future generations?

[@wayausofbounds9255]

@@birdofthenight Did you watch the video? Lack of genetic diversity and buildup of recessive traits from inbreeding.

Mohammed married his first cousin Zaynab bint Jaḥsh... the koran says Mohammed is best of man kind... so really they are just following there examplee.

[@SaadKhan-ii8ml]

But in Hinduism god brahma married to his daughter sarasvati 😂😂😂

[@mehak-GB]

Nice try but she was his seventh wife and she also married two times before she married the prophet. All other marriages 1, 2,3,4,5 and so on were non cousins. Though nice try

@@SaadKhan-ii8ml no he didn't and I am not Hindu. Either way if some one does something does not make it right for another

@@mehak-GB one was 6 another his first cousin. Let's not forget she was married to his stepson. Not trying anything it's fact

[@mehak-GB]

In Islam, an adopted son is not a son. Simple is that so no marrying to step son etc. I presume u to be Sikh because of your DP symbol. Your morality and our morality are different. Your cousins and sisters just play like brothers and sisters but there is clear segregation of male and female especially among cousins in our society. Cousins of opposite gender are not allowed to intermingle with each other. So our family structure is different, unlike your Sikh or Hindu cousins who are allowed even to sleep in the same room. Our male cousins are not mahram to us and we don't talk to them like our brothers without veil. So it is not incest according to us if married to cousins but still, we have a choice whether to marry or to not.

[@stephenaustin142]

Well , no wonder that they're so fighty , not the smartest

[@hwaidasweilem8955]

5:03 Simultaneously saying uncles and nieces are not exempt from the prohibition, while showing a verse of the Quran saying exactly the opposite! "your father's sisters, your mother's sisters, your brothers daughters, your sisters daughters".🤦‍♀

[@Waqooyi]

Yeah he clearly made a large mistake adding that uncles are allowed to marry which isn’t true and clearly says the opposite in the verse.

[@adrianadam8543]

0 Pakistani people have uncle or niece marriages.

[@sarahhale-pearson533]

Same in UK. Very high proportion of developmental disabilities.

[@hidolfatler]

Your monarchs did the same

[@traditionalfood367]

​@@hidolfatler Yes, with disastrous results, esp. the House of Stuart, which finally ended because of its last monarch's addiction to lead-based make-up.

[@HistoryWithD-n9y]

Anglo-SAXONS

[@shivambhalla4525]

Good content, but buddy there was something wrong with the voice editing. The last words of most sentence sounded very very sharp for some reason, so some constructive feedback for the growth of your chanel.

[@HrithikSD4368]

Aur usne pakistani punjab ko Indian bol Diya. Aaya bada factual KZbinr👻

[@MasimbaMusodza]

In southern Africa, the definition of incest includes members of the same clan, as signified by the totem. I am of the Shumba totem, and anyone of the same totem, even if they were from another ethnic group or country (such as Banda in Malawi, Tau in Lesotho etc) is considered a close relative. Mother's clan is also considered taboo. In our urbanised society, dating from within the same neighbourhood was frowned upon when I was growing up in Zimbabwe.