I watched a documentary about the Pakistani population in Britain who marry their own cousins. The had one couple on there that had children who were basically handicapped by genetic deformaties and they didn't seem to know why.
I remember that documentary. It was chilling to think that these people continue the practice only because their community tells them to and tradition must be upheld.
I remember watching it too. Btw in Pakistan it's pretty normal to marry your cousins and I've seen so many cases of people suffering from diseases as a result of inbreeding. This topic in itself is a taboo and if you were to talk about you'd be considered a strange person. These people would rather let their future generations suffer than fix something.
In Norway, there are actions underway as we speak to ban first-cousin marriage because many of the foreigners and immigrants (mostly muslims) are practicing this. Norway (as far as I know) never had a problem with first cousin inbreeding to begin with
Wouldnt matter at all since theyd just get married in their buroughs anyways outside of the law and within Islamic circles/faith etc and gov is too spineless to prosecute
as a kazakh who has to know their 7 grandfathers’ names in order not to marry someone who shares the same grandfathers, marrying a cousin sounds insane to me
But that's because Khazar jews weren't originally Jews (or Hebrews). Khazaria converted to Judaism around late 900s AD due to political tensions from it's Muslim and Christian neighbors. The Khazar didn't need to carry the Jewish "tradition" of marrying within families since the whole Khazaria became Jewish. Now the offshoots of Khazar Jews that later became what we know as Ashkenazi is another question. They practice(d) heavy interbreading.
@@AceK21 genetic testing has proven the ashkenazi khazhar connection theory to be virtually non existent. But after all this theory anyways had no historical evidence to back it up. Please do some actual research.
As someone from Pakistan myself, I can't confirm enough that cousin marriages are very common over there. In my own extended family alone, I know of two first cousin marriages, which is gross. My own aunt would casually talk and joke about marrying me to her stupid blobfish of a daughter when I was a kid and up until my teens, which thankfully never happened. Another cousin of mine married a half-uncle of hers. The extended family on my mother's side is quite the clusterf**k. I myself thankfully don't have inbred genes as far I know since my mom and my dad don't have any extended family in common that I know of and they are both from separate "ancestral tribes". Not sure of their parents though (my grandparents) which scares me a bit. My distant ancestors do come from Afghanistan afterall.
Your parents being separate doesn’t protect you from that. If they had inbred ancestors, you’ll likely still experience at least some of that. Also, instead of saying “her stupid blobfish daughter”, you can say “my stupid blobfish cousin”, which changes the mindset.
Pakistani here as well, can confirm -- cousin marriage is TOO prevalent in PK society. My own uncle and aunt are first cousins, as an example, and they have a child with a horrible disorder of metabolism, that poor thing. His parents however still fail to recognize why this might have happened, instead choosing to believe that it could have happened anyways. Which it could have, yes, but the chances of which would have been much, much smaller no doubt.
Don’t leave out Sicily. Yes, it’s part of Italy but inbreeding has gone on for centuries here. It’s only recently (the last 80 years or so) that most people had the transportation possibilities to leave their secluded villages.
Even in England, cousin marriage was common before the railroads. Just read Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. The heroine marries her cousin. Their mothers were sisters. It could be difficult to find someone of the right status nearby.
@@joanhuffman2166 I really don't understand why anyone is surprised England and Sicily are "left out" -they weren't "left out", they just aren't "inbred" compared to other countries globally. You guys are making European comparisons, whereas this list is considering the entire world. No Western European countries (or regions) are going to rank next to largely isolated areas of the Global South.
@@joanhuffman2166 Is this video focused on "a couple centuries back" or modern times? The effects of inbreeding reverse in as little as two generations.
You left out by far the most important reason for the inbreeding of most of these countries: tribalism. Within tribal societies, it has always been preferable to marry within the tribe. That's why half of the countries in the video are Arab countries, and it's well-known that most Arab societies are still largely tribal. The same applies for Pakistan and Afghanistan-even though they're not Arab countries, Pashtuns, an staunchly tribal people, form about half of the population of Afghanistan and about 15% of Pakistan. Another 15-20% of Pakistan's population is made up of tribal peoples such as Balochis and Saraikis. Despite what you hinted at in your video, the religion of Islam has little to do with the inbreeding of these countries, even though most of the countries you mentioned are Muslim-majority; it just so happens that most Muslim countries have a large tribal population. Take Iran and Turkey, for instance, who, despite being Muslim countries, have a far less inbred population, since both are, and traditionally have been, urban/sedentary societies.
What's interesting was that the Turks didn't start out sedentary but they didn't seemed to obsess about "keeping it in the family" as much as the other mentioned ethnic groups. Is there a study if steppe groups also didn't have plenty of inbreeding?
@@nunyabiznes33 I'm not well-versed in Turkic culture and history, but I don't think what you're saying is entirely accurate. There are still Turkic tribes in Iran, for instance, such as the Qashqai tribe, who almost exclusively marry their own cousins. My own family is a descendant of the Turkic Aq-Qoyunlu tribe and, although we've become completely urbanized and detribalized since the time of my great-grandfather, we've still kept semi-alive some of the customs and traditions of our ancestors, such as having a slight preference for marriage between cousins. Turks were originally just as tribal as Arabs, and just like other nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples, they did have a preference for keeping marriages within the tribe, and some still do to this day. Turks of Turkey aren't particularly inbred today because they're genetically largely the same Anatolians of three thousand years ago. They only got linguistically Turkified, not genetically or culturally. The Anatolians, instead of adopting the tribal practices of their Turkic overlords, assimilated _them_ into their own sedentary lifestyle. You could say the reverse happened in Levant and Mesopotamia, where the native sedentary populations gradually adopted the tribalism of their Arab overlords.
@@lambert801 You seem to be mistaken about modern Turks, native Anatolians most definitely accepted Turkic culture, and Turkic culture itself did not condone incest. You'd find that most nomadic groups tried to avoid incest as much as possible, unless they had adopted religions that allowed or even endorsed incest, like the Persian Zoroastrianism. This is definitely far more complicated.
Another factor that was passed over quickly was social class. The upper and elite classes often intermarried and this was known to cause problems. In Europe there were a few well known cases in noble families and the results. There are also the stories of particularly "ill-favored" issue being shut away or vanished. These marriages were made to cement power and wealth.
England's Queen Victoria has so many relatives/descendents throughout Europe that she is called "Europe's Grandmother." Much inbreeding in the royal families in Europe.
In most of African countries and more so in East Africa, it is a taboo to marry from not only a first cousin but even a distance relative. As a Meru tribe from Kenya, when people wants to marry, their bloodline is thoroughly scrutinized
America was kinda special. California was basically populated by all the scum rushing there after the gold miners money in hundreds to one ratios of men than women. The Indian ran wild and afraid.
A friend, himself married to a first cousin, as his parents were, told me that the reason for those marriages is "greed" (his exact word). It is based on the desire to keep all the family wealth within the family, the family wealth usually being, or involving, ancestral lands in the home country. First comes the arranged marriage to a first cousin, and thereafter the focus is a non-stop competition with one's in-laws.
@@k-Sayl And remember, such inbreeding results in a lot of illness which costs the medical system an enormous amount of money, much more than for non-inbred populaitons. The genetic illness risks are known ahead of time but it's considered to be just the cost of keeping the money. The amount it costs the British medical system, for example, has been studied and it's 'way out of line. A British Baroness who is Muslim has spoken about this publicly.
yes muslims speak out about it because it isn't an islamic thing, it's a cultural thing very common in south asia. Islam doesn't prohibit you from marrying your first cousin but doesn't encourage it either, and many muslim religious leaders will advise people who marry their first cousins to do things like blood & dna tests to look for recessive genes. @@vancouverterry9142
I havd friends in Tasmania, an island at bottom of Australia where inbreeding has benn rumoured for generations. Was at my mates place about 10 years ago and his young brother (17) was talking about this new girl he was really fond of, when the Dad asked if she was a virgin. There was 8 of us at the dining table. Tommy said she was (a virgin). The Dad then thundered 'Well, if she ain't good enough for her own family, she's certainly not good enough for ours'. I will never forget that moment
@Nick-ql6ovThey do, just not first cousins. Relations between more distant cousins generally carry a lower risk of passing on any birth defects or deformities. Studies have even shown that third cousin marriages are the most fertile and successful on average.
Just a tip. We historians aren't trained in the medical science of genetics. I was informed by a geneticist a while back that there's a lot of popular misunderstanding of the risks of inbreeding. Apparently, it's not as simple as "Don't breed with your cousins." Its repeated generations of inbreeding where things start to go wrong - or, you know, REALLY keeping it 'in the family" as in immediate family. This makes sense if you consider how, before the industrial revolution, there were countless small isolated villages and cousin marriage was practically universal. As always, when we historians do topics that touch on science, it's best to err on the side of caution and defer to scientific expertise.
Ems4884, you are 100% correct. The fact that he refers to this as disgusting shows that he isn't that intelligent and likes to pass on "facts " he had heard, and not true facts. Thanks for interjecting some truth.
It's an interesting thing, to be sure. We all know the stories of Victorian Era aristocrats and the horrific inbreeding all the way up to the Romanovs, but Israelis are super inbred and also some of the smartest people in the world. It's almost like the inbreeding helps them. I expected Israel in this list. But I was surprised that Japan was not here on this list. The Japanese seem to really dislike foreigners, and most Asians seem REALLY inbred to the point where they look like aliens. But they too are known for being very intelligent. And why are the U.K. countries not on this list? The amount of inbreeding there has got to be insane....but I guess the list was only the top ten and was filled up with Muslim countries. Some inbred dogs are really smart, like purebred Collies or Corgies. Why is that? Indians seem quite often to be not at all inbred, with the British influence producing a half and half mix that has lent itself to these gorgeous curvy women. That's what most of these countries really need....some sort of exchange program. As an American man, I would gladly trade all of the American women for the displaced Ukrainian ones. Haha But seriously, such a thing would be fantastic for future generations. There are no more Vikings to do it; a world-wide exchange program would have great benefit. There should at least be some sort of global approval for pairing up with a spouse from another culture, just as there should be a stigma against pairing up with relatives.
USA also has a lot of donor children who are never told of their donor status and a lack of a donor cap means that there are hundreds of siblings all across the country or even internationally. There are even donors that possibly have THOUSANDS of children but no one keeps records of it. So we may find in the next few decades that the USA becomes a lot more inbred. Because even if the half siblings don't marry (which HAS happened) they have cousins and possibly THOUSANDS of nieces/nephews they don't know about. Including siblings that may not be born yet due to the freezing of embryos and will be the same age as their children causing generations of accidental inbreeding.
Nah, this is a poorly researched video. In 2019, the journal Nature published a study backed by genetic evidence that 1 out of every 3,650 people in the UK is likely to be the result of “extreme inbreeding” between close relatives. Extreme inbreeding is defined as 1 or 2 degrees relatives, meaning parent-child or siblings. Not even first cousins, which is a fourth degree of consanguinity, Now this is very disgusting.
@@MelaniaRose I am brazilian .Of the total number of children born across the country this year 6.8% are included in the statistics of certificates with an absent father. This percentage varies between five and ten percent, with a higher percentage ( 10%) in the Amazon region. THe country will have troubles in next future with half siblings marriage
one marriage between cousins is not that dangerous. The problem in the countries you've seen is marriage between cousins, that were born from cousins for several generations, they have no genetic diversity at all, it's all the same family.
Kentucky has done a lot to stop inbreeding and you have to provide family information when applying for a marriage license and sign a document stating that you're not related and you're willing to undergo genetic testing if the state believes otherwise. I think some people in Eastern Kentucky still do it but for the most part, it's not acceptable and highly ridiculed.
How do you explain they've been voting for Mitch McConnell, the most ineffectual senator, since 1984? Isn't Kentucky one of the poorest states with low educational standards?
@donk8105 I could easily imagine those inbred people who bullied you sounding like Meatwad for some reason because of the PS2 Jimmy Neutron Jet Fusion game.
Not mentioned in the opening, 10th century Icelanders caught in blood shame (incest) were drowned in the Drekkingarhylur pool at Thingvellir. On the other hand, I used to work in the tech industry with a well-educated Egyptian who was proud to have had four children with his first cousin.
And you can be guaranteed that he was not a Coptic Christian - the minority of Egyptians who are Christian who have somehow escaped forced conversion or death by the Arab religion/culture which has overtaken the rest of Egypt. Hint Arabic is not the language the Egyptians of Cleopatra's time were speaking.
I studied this several years back. Here in the US, trailer park and cousin jokes are common. It's illegal most places and highly frowned upon within the Church, however, there are areas where this is prevalent, with the uneducated and predatory folks. Things I noticed via research: Today, this is having a resurgence in areas where people know better. And, if you're from abroad and your family tree is inverted, you should never make trailer park jokes. Also, if you pay attention to the places where this is acceptable, the commonalities are violence, under developed, and tribalism.
In Iceland, they have an old registry to which individuals marrying each other refer before the marriage to confirm that they are not closely related. The Icelandic students have probably followed in the steps of this century old registry.
the trouble is, when you look at ACTUAL heredity as opposed to believed heredity, about 10% of people in the UK don't have the biological father they thought they did, rising to 20% in some liverpool council estates apparently. And as we discovered, my maternal grandfather didn't have the mother we thought he did as after my randparents died my Mum found out he was brought up by his aunt instead of his mum as his mum was not married. You only need to go back a few generations and this compounding effect makes a mockery of family history.
I like Iceland my Family is from Norway. I like that Iceland tends to keep out non European immigration and I like that , hopefully other Nordic Countries will adapt Iceland immigration practices
For the US states, it should be noted that _allowing_ first-cousin marriage isn't the same as mandating it, nor does it have anything to do with actual social trends. It simply means that no one sat down and wrote a law restricting it; kind of like how it's legal in most states to tie a giraffe to a fire hydrant. If anything, you should be concerned about the places that _do_ have such laws, as that would imply that in-breeding is on enough radars to warrant legislative action.
Also, he offers no numbers on the percentages in the US. With over 350 million people, I feel sure it's extremely low in percentages. I will try to find the numbers.
It’s like that survivorship bias thing where they were looking at bombers and where they needed to armor the bomber, and were focusing on the places shot up ON PLANES THAT MANAGED TO MAKE IT BACK.
In South Sudan, you cannot even marry someone with whom any of your parents or grandparents come from the same clan. But the Northerners (Sudanese) can marry their cousins because they are already Arabised. A clan is a subtribe mostly consisting of a few thousand people here
Its the same in India. In north Indian Hindus, you do not marry anyone from your clan, your mother's maiden clan and both your grandmother's maiden clans. You can commit any crime but not this. This is considered beyond disgusting. Muslims and South Indian hindus do marry their cousins a lot.
Looking into consanguinity statistics from the last decade, the USA is not anywhere near the top 10. The inclusion here is kind of questionable. I know Europeans love to think of themselves as superior to Americans, but it's not accurate in this context.
I thought that as well they are really pushing that with all the immigrants and people that don't stay in their home state. The percent capita may be far from number 9. I don't buy it at all.
It could all almost come from super insular fringe Christian sects, oe . The USA also statistically has a huge child bride problem. "There are, however, specific religious and ethnic minorities with high rates of consanguineous unions. Examples of these include members of the Holiness movement in Kentucky in the 1940s with a consanguinity rate of 18.7% (inbreeding coefficient 0.0061) (Brown 1951), Kansas Mennonites in the 1980s with 33.0% consanguinity (mean inbreeding coefficient 0.0030) (Moore 1987), and Romani Americans in Boston in the 1980s with a 61.9% consanguinity rate (inbreeding coefficient 0.0170) (Thomas et al. 1987)." - PMID: 28717657
also those people who live in the states are also european in origin and are not Native to the Americas. Indigenous Americans don't originate from europe.
I am an Eastern European Jew living in the US. Although my parents aren’t related, the OP is correct in stating that my ethnic group has experienced a lot of inbreeding. I have some serious genetic problems as a result. For that reason, I think people should try to mate outside of their ethnic group.
Mating inside the ethnic group isn't negative for most ethnicities. Most Italians , Greeks, Germans etc are 3rd and 4th cousins whitch means there are virtually zero problems from inbreeding. Jews just had a disastrous genetic bottle neck.
On the one hand On the other hand, many Diaspora Jews have felt betrayed by their non-Jewish friends and even partners' treatment of the rise in antisemitism this month, so it's a coin toss between risking inbreeding and risking your and your children's safety.
Just because you have genetic problems doesn't mean its inbreeding. I have a Terminal disease. My mother Irish my Father Russian. The mutation dates back almost 45,000 years. Issue with breeding outside ethnic group you get rare diseases that are no associated and can result in severe illness and death. Example we had a Asian/American family with a child who had Sickle Cell die because they had no family history but turned out the carried the gene. It may sound simple. A blood test but mistakes happen or are missed.
He said countries, and last time I check Quebec is not a country. yet. We'll have to wait And see for another referendum with unanimous approval or whatever, maybe even a successful rebellion, for Quebec to be a country. But as of now Quebec is not yet a country.
Canadians doctors know this, Canadians of French Canadian decent have a tendency to inherent certain illnessness. Genetically High Cholestral, and Cystic Fibrosis are some of the illnessness. Its called the founder effect and its because Quebec was cut off from the world for about 150 yrs. People had large families and intermarried. It has nothing to do with recent immigration.
@@marianparoo1544This is very uncommon among ultra-Orthodox. There are specifically very small groups of ultra-Orthodox who do this, but the absolute majority of ultra-Orthodox do not, it's like Mormons and extremist groups of Christians
@@s123-v3x Did you know that according to the Old Testament and Halacha (Jewish Sharia) an uncle and niece may marry? There was a case in either NY or NJ where since there was no incest law against Uncle-Niece marriage it had to be allowed in the end.
USA is diverse remember ,has some of the Highest number of immigrants n muslims@@milascave2 . Iceland has 300,000 people this is a population problem
I am Dutch and grew up with the Turkish and Moroccan community. I can say that many of my Turkish and Moroccan friends were born to related parents. There are also often large age differences, with the man (cousin) being 20 years or more older. I sometimes discussed with them why their parents are cousins? I received the answer that it is quite normal. I also found it strange that girls were married off to cousins or older men who had never met. In fact, this still happens in the Netherlands. Many Turkish and Moroccan men marry a younger cousin from their country of origin, because Turkish and Moroccan girls born in the Netherlands are often highly educated and too Westernized. Is there no real love, I asked them? According to them, if you are with someone for a long time, you will naturally love someone.
Their book allows it and encourages it. That is why they have related parents. They are strong followers of the book, even if it is wrong. The mentality being the book is always right and the book of god.
it is not considered normal by most turks, it really depends on the region they come from. Kurds and arabs from Turkey tend to do it way more often and ethnic turks from Karadeniz and Konya regions do it too but it is not that common. I can confirm most ethnic turks are disgusted by cousin marriage though and it is a very huge taboo for balkan Turks, we are not even allowed to marry someone related to us by 7 generations back traditionally, cousin marriage is a semitic tradition brought to Turks by islam but it is not embraced by most Turks. A turk by ethnicity and a turk by nation is not the same thing like you tend to think in the Netherlands by the way, it is an umbrella term used by all people from Turkey besides being an ethnonym. Also sorry but turkish people or people from Turkey in the netherlands to be more exact are not better educated then Turkish girls form Turkey, they are seen as very ignorant, bad mannered and outright brutish by most Turkish people and are a lot more likely to be religious freaks. Do not overestimate your country as it has definetely failed when it comes to minorities, how the hell did you guys let them to become so freakishly distinct and fanatical in the first place? cousin marriage rate for Turkey is only about 5% www.statista.com/statistics/1344004/turkey-consanguineous-marriage-rate/
Southeasterners in the US are aware of this stereotype and actively try and get away from it. All the inbreeding stereotypes developed earlier in US history when transportation was difficult unlike modern times and there wasn't much choice in who people married. I've known some from that area and they really go out of their way to break the mold.
@@gsomethingsomething2658 All of America has a rate of consanguous marriage of les than 1%, even the southern states. Whereas ALL of the Middle East has rates above 30%. So please, go ahead and make a similar joke about Egyptians or Pakistanis, I will wait.
I live in South Carolina and when I was growing up, I wondered about how some families had the same defects (mental or physical). This was the early 70s. I don't see it as much as I used to, but I tell young people to find someone out of the state!😂 I'm a teacher, and most schools I've taught at have kids that are related, or find out their "crush" is their cousin! 😄
In the Balkans, inbreding is huge taboo. We have words to descibe many types of family reltions going bacl at least 200 years. It is realy normal and common for people to know their family trees. You also have a grandmother to tell you if person you are dating is comming from good family, bad family or your family.
I’m from Ghana 🇬🇭- it’s a MASSIVE TABOO to marry your relative it simply doesn’t happen. People take careful task of a potential marriage mate to avoid any extended relation. I simply can’t wrap my head around cultures that are ok with marrying first cousins!!! And they don’t seem to see or care about the generic complications that are quite obvious when you look at their children.
@@Dorian-wf1ivMacedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Bulgaria. As for Albania and Bosnia (Muslims) different story, but for the former nations mentioned I can concede that we MUST not have a single trace of relation between each other otherwise we will be the “outcasts” of the community. For example it’s such taboo that my brother cannot marry my wife’s cousin because it’s still considered “inbreeding”.
Yay Utah!! Anyway, Utah's in-breeding problem is due to the history of polygamy practiced by the dominant religion of Utah during the 1800's. However, polygamy was stopped as a religious practice in 1890 and since then, the amount of in-breeding has greatly decreased. Utah is also a state that does not allow first cousin marriages and coupled with the fact that the dominate religion is greatly focused on genealogy, it's fairly easy to know if a prospective spouse is actually your a relative. There are still pockets of people in Utah who practice polygamy, but these people are not members of the dominate religion and their risk of in-breeding is much greater than the population of Utah at large.
@jacqueschouette7474 ---> Well said/written Jacque! {You stole my speech! 😊} The video maker is leaving out lots of factual information it seems to me. I was born there, and half of my relatives are there. In the southern and western and eastern less populous parts of Utah where the descendants of the 1840's - 1860's pioneers settled, there was of course some inbreeding, and is still a problem in remote areas/towns. What the video maker guy did not mention by name is/are the various Indian tribes in the U.S. especially in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada {[ Which also have higher amounts of L.D.S./Mormons that most States]} On the first map that he showed in dark red are Hopi, Ute, Navajo, Apache, Shoshone, Paiute, Pima and Papago tribes, often living on tribal lands. They are often in remote areas, so I would not be surprised if there was in-breeding going on. Lots of booze drinking on the reservations and on Native tribal areas in Alaska also. I spent 5 years up there. Not a good mix. People do stupid things when they are tipsy and drunk.
I was just asking myself, wasn't qatar a peninsula or did they do something using their wealth? Like how could I have missed that, was it ever on the news?
I am Punjabi and first cousin marriage is highly taboo in my culture. Even marring someone with the same last name, because they may have come from the same village originally. Even marrying people in a family who are not genetically related is taboo, for example a sister of a brother-in-law.
All Punjabis I meet usually have the surnames Singh or Kaur. Very confusing when having to write references for them when they all have the same fucking name.
😂😂😂😂😂 Oh trust me it used to happen, and every now and then it does, but because of Christian beliefs, it's not as prevalent as in the past. It's why there are so many people of mixed ancestry in the Pacific. You can only get to a certain point until everyone is related. As new visitors arrived the first thing people did in the past was to make children. Now it's a bit more subtle and people aren't doing those types of things anymore.
Spelling error on the title card for Mauritania. Clip used for flag of Palestine was actually the flag of the UAE. I’m going to give the same advice I give to my grad students: obvious errors like these detract from the material you are trying to present. If you can’t get something simple correct, how can I trust that the main material is correct? I hope that the creator(s) heed my advice. The topic was interesting and I hope the channel does well.
they were so many mistakes. These videos are not good, they don't put any effort , they will just read a wikipedia page and stick random pictures over them. Yet... everyone clicks.
This guy would get a fail in any academic environment. Those simple errors were the least of his problems. Start with the lack of any evidence provided them move onto use loaded language (he called the US disgusting on this matter.) and he made no attempt to provide explanation of difference between wide spread approval by a country of cousin marriage and occurrences because of geographic and ethnic isolation.
In Serbia, people do not call their cousins,1st or 2nd cousin and so on, they're brothers or sisters from uncle, aunt... It's more personalized. It's like a taboo to go there even in mind. I was shocked when an Englishman told me that it is ok for 2nd cousins to be married. I believe that experience told humans what is good and what is bad.
I’m an 🇺🇸 black woman, and in my family the dynamic between the cousins who are the children of our parents brothers and sisters is very close and like quasi-siblings. I was communicating with some women in a FB group that had a lot of women from all over the world and I was trying to explain why it would be revolting in my own family to marry my cousins (though extremely good-looking)-like in cest! 😮 My mother’s nephews (my cousins) are very, very good-looking, but they are like brothers…
The problem with Australia is you can go to a state within Australia where it's legal and the whole of Australia will recognise the marriage certificate so in all it still allows inbreeding!!!
As an Estonian, I clicked on this hoping to see Finland :D This is one of the jokes we have about them, despite being very friendly neighbours. I guess it is a cope, because they had way less turbulent history, while we were r*ped by everyone... Germans, Swedes, Danes, Russians, and most importantly, the Valiant Semigallians. They all had a field day. So now we have the most supermodels per capita and we're doing well in the world science rankings, but we're still dirt poor :(
I am so sorry to hear that😢. I think thanks to globalisation now we wouldn't have to use rape for genetic variation. Finland does have a very homogenous population. Various studies do suggest that.
Conquest doesn't necessarily mean r*pe. For example in Russia, everyone believed that we all have Mongol DNA due to Mongol conquest, but DNA studies showed it is not true. I think in Estonia people just married people of different ethnic groups as long as they had the same religion, and that prevented inbreeding. Finland having inbred population is a common myth, very false and untrue as well, Finns descended from multiple migrations into their area since prehistoric times, they have diverse gene pool.
I found this online: "Inbreeding is highly discouraged and far less common in the US with about 0.2 percent of American marriages being inbred, representing roughly 250,000 Americans. Despite the health risks that come along with marrying relatives, first-cousin marriage is legal in 19 states.Apr 3, 2023." You provide no actual numbers in your report yet place US at number 10.
I am pleasantly surprised Bangladesh is not on the list, since I know so many people in my family who married their cousin (including my parents). I guess it is becoming less and less common
Why does Islam permit cousin marriages?? My sense says that because it evolved out of desert which generally has very few people and difficulty of terrain makes people have no choice.
I do not see how you could have put the United States as 10th because all the research I have done on this shows that any other middle eastern country is way higher than them What was your reasoning for this
Cuz he's Bri'ish and a snob but it's racist to call Muslims "disgusting" but okay to call New Mexicans (generally not white tbh) "disgusting". Make it make sense!
It the groups its pandemic in eg not long go Italians and Greeks for one! Now its Muslims! Its interesting he quotes a paper 07:40 but then completely leaves the saudis 40% and indians 55% off the lists! i think a little biased!
Also left out are the Mormons. Here in this remote mountain region my sister who worked for a national health organization and provided health and wellness services to mothers and children; she said the amount of birth defects were more than double the national average. I know of several instances where the bride didn't even have to change her last name. The were 2nd cousins with the same last name. Their children had hereditary problems with heart and cognitive issues. A real shame.
I'm surprised the Azores Islands weren't mentioned. For hundreds of years most of the population was fairly isolated at 1,400 km west of Portugal, out in the Atlantic Ocean.
@@AlexaLake1 I’m talking about more recent Barbary immigrants from the last 400 years. The azores and the Canary Islands were well known for Europeans and even North Africans of different ethnicities passing through for either trading or staying and intermarrying which was most definitely the case with some of the few almost quarter Berber azorean islanders I’ve met.
As an Australian I was surprised to find out it was legal to marry a cousin here, having said that (no doubt like many other countries like the US (as a whole), Canada et al) I don't know any one who has married a cousin (1st, 2nd or whatever).
Same here as an Aussie, but it’s common to know at least one couple who are married cousins (depending on the demographics where you live). Even for a place like Australia with having alot of options for a mate, cousin marriages are probably low these days.
@@MelaniaRose Most people naturally find the idea of marrying a cousin let alone a brother/sister/etc is beyond disgusting that is already enough of a deterrent to prevent people from marrying each other.
@@HarpreetSingh-kj8ro A lot of people find the idea of marrying ANYONE beyond disgusting. Watching other people go through divorce is enough of a deterrent for me 🤢🤮
In the US it's probably more no married births between cousins that is the problem. Most Americans don't get married anymore but they do still have children.
@@crimsoncockatoo4613rd cousins share very little DNA, so it hardly counts as incest. As a matter of fact, studies have shown that 3rd cousin marriages are more fertile and more likely to be successful.
I'm from Serbia and I can confirm that within Slav nations all over Eastern Europe there was never cousins marrying eachother. I have never even heard of such thing even when it comes to Muslim nations of ex Yugoslavia, Slav or no- Slav ones . It is not forbidden or it is, I have no idea, because nobody practicises it. But Claude Levy Strauss wrote in 'Structure of relations between relatives', or something like that translated from French to English , that societies from Polinesia to Georgia (ex Soviet Union, Caucas country) are countries where cousins marrigies are being practicised ( the book was written in 1949.) He never qualifies that type of societes ( he never says this sort of societies are 'traditional', 'tribal' etc.), all I know is that this was never practicised in Slav cultures throughout Europe. You can 't even find such an example in 18th or 19th century Slav literature. Even before Peter the Great this sort of marrige was totally forbidden amongst Slavs despite the fact all these societies were semi tribal in 17. century and some (Russia and Ukraine) had even pagan population well into deep 19.century ( mentioned even by Dostoyevsky in his books from 1878- 1881.)
People living in the high altitude valleys of the Alps (like canton Valais in Switzerland) have been isolated for a long time and both modernity and mobility mainly happened only after WWII. Both sides of my family come from little villages in remote mountain area. Consanguinity is so high that you could literally identify someone from their facial features, hair and eyes (phenotype) as coming from this or that area of the Alps until the end of the XXth century ! (I have been personally spotted twice in a city of 200'000 people in another canton as coming from my father's village, by total strangers !). I have several 1st cousin couples in my close ancestry, and many more-or-less cousins couples. I had my DNA checked and when I looked for my relatives, I was amazed to see that almost everyone who had made the test in my father village of origin shares a little common DNA with me.
In India, the Hindu (or Sanatan) culture since many thousands of years, the tradition is to seek person for marriage without common ancestor for 7 generations. And how people in ancient times used to get this info? Well, that was from the temples which had birth and death records of people in a very large area and named family lineage as 'Gotra'. They did not marry within the same gotra.
As a New Mexican I will no longer joke about Alabama. We got the crack heads, meth heads and now most inbred. Explains why peeps here are the way the are 😂
When I was around 10 I met a Lebanese girl in primary school. In the area I was from in Australia at the time was all Christian. I had never encountered a Muslim before. She had lots of sibblings & 3 of them were severely handicapped with Cerebral Palsy. I asked her what happened to your siblings? She very matter of factly told me "Oh thats because my parents are FIRST COUSINS!!! I went home & told my mum & she scrunched up her face & said "Muslim's do that" & she told me in our Orthodox Christian religion we are not even allowed to marry even 3rd cousins. Another time I was at my mother-in-laws house in Sydney & her neighbours asked us to come over & look at their baby. The parents were FIRST COUSINS & looked more like TWINS. When we were asked who does the baby look like? We looked at each other & were stumped as to how to answer. M-in-law said "she looks like her parents" & she did. All three of them looked like triplets 😮. In my religion its the BIGGEST NO NO NO NO. This explains the chaos in the Middle East!!!! Incest can manifest itself not only physically but mentally or BOTH. No excuse for it in modern times 😮😮😮
There is definetly a positive relationship between inbreeding and religious extremism & instability, the top 3 countries mentioned are quite literally falling apart as we speak.
I've heard a "theory" on that recently, brought to the forefront by what's going on lately. The prevelent inbreedign in islam is why they are so violent. This will get censored, but I coudl care less anymore.
You didn't watch the video did you? He said within the first few seconds that not all nations are sharing data or capable of it, so they can't be in the list
@@fertilerevitilizer7833 Yet we do have that mapped information out, a cursory search will point you to Harvard and much other established and documented insight regarding islanders, both Pacific and Atlantic. Stating that their own research for the video is myopic at the outset doesn't give them a pass. Again, dubious.
@@fertilerevitilizer7833 no, putting America (less than 1% consanguous marriage rate) on the list was politically motivated and incorrect. Do you really think they don't keep records in countries like Brazil or Egypt that didn't make the list but have much higher rates? Even Japan has a higher rate (approximate 1-4%). Do you think Japan of all places cannot keep records? America is nowhere near the top ten and falls in line with the rates of most European countries, lower than some.
My family on both sides is from Georgia USA. Even dating a second or third cousin is looked at with alarm. My half brother dated a third cousin of ours and everyone was upset and his father was a New York Italian. At Thanksgiving dinner I mentioned a girl in high school and you would have thought I said I was converting to cannablism. They said I am a third cousin on my mother's side and a second cousin on my father's side. It might have made us closer than first cousins. My grandmother slammed a heavy mug on the table and said, "Their're not having babies. Yet! My family has lived in south Georgia since colonial times makes it hard to find a wife you aren't related to. I married a German/Dutch woman luckly.
My family is from GA too (Sasser area) and were from slaves. Stories passed down that masters didn't/wouldn't inbreed slaves ofter because of the chance it would "ruin the stock". I think it's why you don't see a lot of Black Americans with allergies, serious medical conditions that White Americans routinely get. Black ppl it's usually diet and Sickle Cell but that's it for deformities.
@@ADadSupreme Black people get sickle cell disease, heart disease, cancer so I don’t where you came up with they don’t get sick. I’m from the south too. There were also black slave owners.
Interesting video. Although I think the UAE should be on the list...Also I have never heard anyone pronounce Yemen the way you do before - it was unexpected
I remember reading a report of a scientific paper, which put forward the theory that inbreeding may have been a causal factor in the extinction of the Neanderthals. It is thought they congregated in relatively small groups, and became inbred, with all its problems, including infertility.
it is a fact that north of the desert in Africa, most people have a small % of Neanderthal blood. So Homo sapiens did breed with Neanderthals, so they never really became fully extinct, just highly recessive.
It might be allowed to marry your first cousin in Australia,apparently, but I’ve never met anyone who has married into their family line. Maybe some immigrant populations where it’s their culture. There are so many choices if you can’t find someone that’s not related to you then you have a bigger problem
Considering there's supposedly 7+ billion people on earth, there are about 100 million people of the opposite sex around your age group to hook up with globally. Indbreeding should certainly not be a problem at this point in history.
#8 Can confirm. I couldn't rule out my exes having been my 5th cousins, since too many records were lost in pogroms to track our bloodlines that far, in an ethnicity where the background relatedness was that of 3rd cousins. It's either exogamy or inbreeding for me, and the former, which I ultimately chose, is stigmatized and has recently become dangerous for the same reasons that caused us to be inbred to begin with. So while CONVENTIONAL cousin marriages might be exceptionally rare outside of a few minorities, GENETIC cousin marriages are unavoidable.
@@unconsciouscreator3012 True, but it's not about who's fault it is when you live with the consequences of inbreeding or risk any child you have within your ethnicity to die a torturous death in their infancy/toddlerhood bc of inbreeding. I also don't blame any of the "winners" for being inbred, only for continuing the practice. I'm just disappointed in my country - Iceland managed to circumvent this issue rather nicely, why can't we? We're a start-up nation and all.
@@nitzan3782 You can't because you want to be Jews I think. Nobody has to label themselves, but some people want to. I guess you just take the good with the bad.
@@bassdgod1Depends on your background inbreeding coefficient. I've once been told the Beta Israel community takes the Iceland approach and treats 7th cousin marriage as incestuous bc they've been genetically isolated from the time of the the First Temple, meaning for >2500yrs. When the background inbreeding coefficient places your entire ethnicity at 3rd cousin relatedness, I think it's safe to call 5th cousin inbreeding if not outright incest.
I expected to see Estonia or Latvia listed somewhere near 10th place due to 800 years of slavery. You weren't allowed to marry or leave your farm without German landlord permission so people often married people from the farm next to them. Relative marriage nowadays is a big no-no so I guess that's why it didn't make the list.
small european nations usually takes care of that, also since all of us have christian cultural values and cousin marriage was a big no-no and still is in christian law and culture
@@Olive_and_Pistachio No they don't i live in a ''germanic'' culture and the only ones marry their cousins here are immigrants from the middle east and africa and they are not christian
When I was in high-school in Vietnam, a first cousin of my mother suggested (more like testing water with my mother) me and her son who was my 2nd cousin. My mother rejected vehemently, not because we were second cousins but because she was aiming unreasonably high for me. In the meanwhile, I did not understand anything. I was a nerd and focused on my calculus study only. 😁
That very close. 5 generations is considered too close in my family's part of the country in Vietnam. It's has to been about 6-7 generation apart is considered suitable.
Oddly enough, tho gross, marrying second cousins and having children is genetically positive if both are genetically healthy. They surmise it is far enough removed to not cause genetic mutations but close enough that they are less likely to introduce new genetic mutations. This doesn’t make it okay in my eyes tho.
There is another problem in some places, which is a traditional cultural practice of men fathering children by many different women. The offspring may not know the identity of the father.
Calling the United States on this list at all is rediculous, only 340,000 marriages in the United States qualify as Consainguinous(married within family(and that counts 3rd cousin or closer) out of a population of 340 million, while over 1% of Marriages in Spain, Italy and Portragaul, would qualify as Consainguinous.
Science doesnt lie. The ethnic communities intermarrying in the US may come from less diverse gene pools than Southern Europe. Portugal, for instance, has been made up of its indigenous peolple mixed with Celts, Phoenicians, Romans, Greeks, Jews, Visgoths, Amazigh, etc.. throughout its history. Its a well travelled area.
If you want to know something ironic, the northern US actually has more inbreeding than the south currently in modern history.. The people saying it's specifically and only the south that has inbreeding as a problem are clearly not aware of the laws or actual customs regarding north v. south. The north actually has laws which permit it more often, New Jersey especially, and the south has laws which forbid it.
I'm a Cape Coloured and thank God I was born in this body. My Great Grand Parents from my Grand Dads side were Javanese and Japanese and my Grand Moms parents were from Russian and the Caribbean. I don't know much about my Mom's side, but I heard there is Chinese and Native Khoisan; and somehow I look like I'm from Mexico 🤣
It would be interesting to see some actual statistics and not just opinion. While inbreeding might be more prevalent in some regions of the US (i.e. Utah and Kentucky) do to the concentration of a specific groups (i.e. Mormons and hillbillies), if you look at those area as a percentage of the 325,000,000 population of the US, it is tiny. You simply can't make the accusation of "inbred" regarding the entire population of the USA....it simply isn't true, can't be.
His list of most inbred states is very different than the one I found on the internet. My family is from Utah. We all have an app that tells us how we’re related. So what he’s stating about Utah just isn’t true.
I lived in Utah for years.....I'm not suggesting the are "flipper kids" running around everywhere; however, Mormons marry Mormons and due to the concentration there, it is inevitable. Lot of Smiths and Browns in the phone book....surely their is some common ancestry there. @@hannajones0106
@@hannajones0106 His list of countries is way off from what Google shows as well. The U.S. isn't even in the top 30 in the world. What he has done is just taken raw numbers instead of percentages (per capita), and since the U.S. has over 330 million people, it makes it look more prevalent than it is. Countries like Italy, Spain, Brazil and Japan all have higher rates (per capita) than the U.S.
The USA: No American is surprised about Utah. There's not surprise about New Mexico, but we are not allowed to talk about that. We are allowed to talk about West Virginia, and we all sputtered a laugh when you highlighted it.
Speaking of Yemen and the Middle East in general, My ex went to Afghanistan thrice and said he wouldnt be surprised if it was the most inbred, since they still live in tribes with no human rights for the kids or women, dad and involuntary daughter relations are Very common there. They don't police themselves and they wont allow the world to help manage them. They live in the Stone Age still.
I became aware of African and Middle Eastern country's lower intelligence scores when I saw a shocking world map of IQ scores. This video helps provide evidence as to why that is true. Thank you, Shy Historian.
Tell me you are racist without saying the word. Again Africa is a continent with 54 countries and the vast majority consider relative marriage a taboo an abomination. I suggest you read a book and stop displaying your below average education 😂😂😂
It is common only in predominantly Muslim and Arabic North Africa. NOT the entire continent. Inbreeding or incest of any kind is a HUGE TABOO among Africans and in African culture, It is an abomination, unheard of! and can result in severe (even FATAL!) consequences for those involved. Do proper research instead of relying on hearsay and rumor-mongering like any other wh!t.e tr.a$h with access to the internet
@@emteedee1891 that's if they are from the same island not different ones remember you have Spanish, English, Dutch, French and Creole speaking islands.
The US is NOT in the top 10. Not even close. It isn’t no. 1 in first-world countries. Canada, Spain, Portugal, and Italy are higher than the US. And please know, I am not very patriotic myself. As an Anglican priest I have even removed the American flag from any sanctuary where I pastored (not because it was offensive per se, but because no country can claim the church, and visitors can easily interpret the flag being front and center as worship of the US). I can tell you I was bleeding red, white, and blue after watching this video. Please reupload an amended video with more accurate representation.
Indeed I see that you did! Sorry, I usually don’t read most of the comments. Probably should, since I like for peoples’ great input stand on its own and not repeat it; just praise the one who made it, you know. :-)
Japan is higher, China is higher, Brazil is higher, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are definitely higher... methinks he wanted one "white" country in the list so he could safely say it was disgusting but homeboy didn't do his research - it is a 50% Hispanic state with the specific region he was taking about being about 80% Hispanic/ Latino.
As always it's not one cousin marriage that's the issue but doing it again and again like in Pakistan, if you check national IQ you'll find similarities in the countries that do this and a low I.Q. Lowered intelligence is one of the main results from inbreeding. But not warned against enough in these countries. It also seems, though only through reading stories that incestueus families lose that inhibition we all have to want to sleep with a relative. If they parents were inbred the children seem more likely to commit incest too. Even with eachother. Maybe it lessens the safeguards we have. My family basically seemed to do the opposite and most often married people from a whole other continent. Mixed people also often look better.
@@gsomethingsomething2658 They are pretty spread out and so you'd have to test them all. But you can also marry a jew after converting. So I'm not sure if the ashkenazi jews are 100% Ashkenazi.. Obviously it's enough to give people a high chance of complications from that genetics but are they 60% that? Or always a 100%? Is your grandfather also your spouses grandfather? The strictest ones do not let the women get education. I think the most inbreeding must havetaken place in the past.
Why do you have an Indian flag in your thumbnail when India is not even part of this list. Also, 9 out of the 11 countries you have mentioned are Islamic countries, that is the reason behind in breeding, it is part of that religion.
In some societies. With all the equality and Hate speech jargon in the Western world now, you probably are no longer allowed to even discuss such FACTS.
It is really disgusting 🤢 South Indians are still doing this at very large scale , But in north India marrying even in the bloodline of Father or Mother is considered sin and person is outcasted , I was shocked to know how much people in southern India is indulging in cousin marriage, mariage with uncles and aunts it is pathetic.
Lol bruh southern India only 20% people do cousin marriages that too only tamilnadu,telugu and kannada people.Kerala has less than 3% of consaguineous marriages.
Found this on Google: "...0.20 % of marriages in the United States are considered to be at the threshold of inbreeding." In your video, you tell a different story by focusing on states or certain pockets of inbreeding in the country. In fact, that one Google statistic I cited would seem to suggest that the country as a whole appears to be comprised of a lot of outbreeding, the opposite of your claim. Your video looks a little misleading to me.
I'm so glad I'm one of the lucky few Pakistanis who neither himself is married to a cousin, nor has parents or grandparents who are cousins. And trust me, my aunts tried their best. I just rejected them every single time.
You need to do a better job of providing sources for this data. I haven’t been able to locate this “CIDE” study you fleetingly reference in the video. A link in the description would be helpful. What empirical data is publicly available contradicts some of the findings of your purported stats. The US for instance has quite a low overall rate of consanguineous marriages. Beyond that the only reliable information would be genetic data compiled from multiple countries in the same study. Otherwise you run the not small risk of comparing incongruous data. Unless you make the basis for these ranking less opaque a great degree of skepticism is warranted.
Yes, it's just really odd that he lists the United States as number 10 when it has a very low rate of inbreeding. It reeks of the author having an agenda. If he would list sources, I wouldn't have an issue with this video. My guess is that he's just pulling raw numbers and not per capita. Even then, the U.S. is not even in the top 30 nations.
I personally know three *Yemeni women* and two *Palestinian women* who are *all married to men from outside ethnic and racial backgrounds* (French-Canadian, Malian, Russian, and Ukrainian), so they've certainly done at least their own part in not inbreeding.
@@cambodianpleasuresquad1753: *That doesn't mean they all listen.* Are you Cambodian? I'm Vietnamese, and *quite a number of Middle Eastern and North African women like us Asian guys.* I'm currently dating an Algerian woman, and my first girlfriend was also an Algerian, and I later dated two Moroccans, and one of the Yemeni women I mentioned above. I am friends with a married couple with a teenage son, where the husband is Japanese and the wife is Moroccan. I also know another Moroccan woman whose boyfriend is Laotian.
@@cambodianpleasuresquad1753: Yes! I'm from Québec, and my uncles married my French-Canadian aunts! My famale cousins are also French Canadians. Indeed, you are right: over here, many Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Chinese men are with women from other racial backgrounds! *And even more so in France, where it looks like the majority of them!*
@@cambodianpleasuresquad1753: i forgot to mention, I know a 30-something-year-old woman who's dad is a Teochow Cambodian, and whose mom is Moroccan. And yes, they are from Québec too.
I'm 20% Ashkenazi Jewish from my mother, and we know that genetic bottleneck. My paternal grandparents were first cousins. They were born in the late 1800's to Scot/Irish immigrants who settled in the late 1770s in the panhandle of Florida. More than likely, given the decades spent with an extended family of the many brothers who bought a good amount of farmland. I imagine there were more cousin marriages over the years of isolation. One of my elders said, "There weren't other people around to marry". We have our own graveyard in Century, Florida.
1. How just 20% ashkenazi, that doesn't make sense... 2. Yeah, it's well known. However, the video stated Israel is the most inbred for that reason alone, while more than 25% of Israeli jews are considered of mixed hertiage (having an ashkenazi and a non-ashkenazi parent) primarily due to that reason, myself included...
Because my mother has grand parents that are also not Jewish the actual genes 18.7% her mothers mother was Jewish Marie's to a Christian carpathian Her fathers mother Jewish married to an English man
@@venessamaxwell8105 That still doesn't make sense. This makes your mother 25% jewish. (if I understood correctly, both her parents are half jewish). So you are either 12.5% (⅛) if your father was Xtian, 62.5% (⅝) if he was fully jewish, or some other number of full eights in between...
There are many Middle Eastern countries that aren't on the list because they don't classify cousin marriage as inbreeding and don't report the statistics.
The truth comes out when looking at birth defect rates. I'm sure some corrupt countries hide that statistic to hide how damaging cousin marriages are but from what has been released it's obvious where inbreeding happens. Just google birth defect rate world map. For countries where incest is not cultural, countries with small populations have slightly higher than those with big populations (which shows how small populations have genetic stagnancy, not a lot of genetic diversity so even if cousin marriages are avoided eventually inbreeding happens). For countries where incest is cultural you see birth defects at high rates even in large populations.
you talk about Palestine, and show the flag of UAE... not ery reliable video. Your explanation for inbreeding among aras and muslim, grossly miss the real reason. It is not because they are isoltaed, given the vast number of muslims in the world, they could find mates out of their families. The real reason is they see blood relationship as most important, thus prefer marriage within their families.
4:19 "... forcing Jewish peoples to marry from the select minority." I doubt they would have married from other religious groups even if it had been legal to do so. Religious groups tend to be very strict about not marrying outside your tribe.
@@carolagab I know. The video said so. But the point of my comment was that even _if_ it had been legal, it would not have made Jews less inbred, because they would still have voluntarily married just other Jews, because of religious tribalism.
@@carolagab It was also forbidden by the Jewish community itself (esp. Ashkenazi). The stereotype of the jewish grandmother who clucks disapprovingly at her grandson or -daughter dating a goy is a stereotype for a very valid and historically consistent reason.
I watched a documentary about the Pakistani population in Britain who marry their own cousins. The had one couple on there that had children who were basically handicapped by genetic deformaties and they didn't seem to know why.
I remember that documentary. It was chilling to think that these people continue the practice only because their community tells them to and tradition must be upheld.
I remember watching it too. Btw in Pakistan it's pretty normal to marry your cousins and I've seen so many cases of people suffering from diseases as a result of inbreeding. This topic in itself is a taboo and if you were to talk about you'd be considered a strange person. These people would rather let their future generations suffer than fix something.
@@Sunflowersareprettyall in the name of religion
@@axzcel7135 it's the culture, not religion
It’s ironic considering that mixed raced Pakistanis are very beautiful.
In Britain parents with Pakistani heritage account for 4% of all births but 30% all babies born with a congenital birth. There is no co-incidence.
So sad.
Funny enough, I don't feel so bad about the partition anymore.
Thanks for seperating us from the degenerates 🇮🇳🤝🏽🇬🇧
Yep true and many of pakistani and even bangladeshi friends suffer from many health issues because of this
NHS, us the hated English pay for it!
Well you can't expect the royal family to equal Pakistani immigrants in terms of raw output.
In Norway, there are actions underway as we speak to ban first-cousin marriage because many of the foreigners and immigrants (mostly muslims) are practicing this. Norway (as far as I know) never had a problem with first cousin inbreeding to begin with
true
Wouldnt matter at all since theyd just get married in their buroughs anyways outside of the law and within Islamic circles/faith etc and gov is too spineless to prosecute
@@thrashes6208 True
If anything itd only hurt good inbred samaritans like me for instance.@@RandomNorwegianGuy.
Sweden did, before the immigrants waves. I doubt Norway was that different
as a kazakh who has to know their 7 grandfathers’ names in order not to marry someone who shares the same grandfathers, marrying a cousin sounds insane to me
But that's because Khazar jews weren't originally Jews (or Hebrews). Khazaria converted to Judaism around late 900s AD due to political tensions from it's Muslim and Christian neighbors. The Khazar didn't need to carry the Jewish "tradition" of marrying within families since the whole Khazaria became Jewish. Now the offshoots of Khazar Jews that later became what we know as Ashkenazi is another question. They practice(d) heavy interbreading.
@@AceK21 genetic testing has proven the ashkenazi khazhar connection theory to be virtually non existent. But after all this theory anyways had no historical evidence to back it up. Please do some actual research.
@AceK21 she is talking about khazakstan
@@DaveSmith-pm2yqshe is talking about khazakstan
@@chandnikumarov4459 Yes you are 100% correct. I was responding to the other commentator who in their misunderstanding also made another mistake...
As someone from Pakistan myself, I can't confirm enough that cousin marriages are very common over there. In my own extended family alone, I know of two first cousin marriages, which is gross. My own aunt would casually talk and joke about marrying me to her stupid blobfish of a daughter when I was a kid and up until my teens, which thankfully never happened.
Another cousin of mine married a half-uncle of hers. The extended family on my mother's side is quite the clusterf**k.
I myself thankfully don't have inbred genes as far I know since my mom and my dad don't have any extended family in common that I know of and they are both from separate "ancestral tribes". Not sure of their parents though (my grandparents) which scares me a bit. My distant ancestors do come from Afghanistan afterall.
Your parents being separate doesn’t protect you from that. If they had inbred ancestors, you’ll likely still experience at least some of that. Also, instead of saying “her stupid blobfish daughter”, you can say “my stupid blobfish cousin”, which changes the mindset.
"stupid blobfish" 🤣🤣🤣
@@adurpandya2742 or "our stupid blobfish cousin"
"stupid blobfish of a daughter" lol
Pakistani here as well, can confirm -- cousin marriage is TOO prevalent in PK society. My own uncle and aunt are first cousins, as an example, and they have a child with a horrible disorder of metabolism, that poor thing. His parents however still fail to recognize why this might have happened, instead choosing to believe that it could have happened anyways. Which it could have, yes, but the chances of which would have been much, much smaller no doubt.
The "serious medical complications" set of photos got me 🤣
0:41 Especially the manticore. 😂
I had to rewind the video when that part came up. It was like really? 🤣
Not the blemmy💀
the headless dude and the lion like creature
My father was a blemmy my mother was a lion... and they were first cousins too
The entire middle east took a huge L with this one 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥
Im glad norway and sweden arent on there
@@CJMapping They might be soon...
@@UpstairsReserve wdym
@@CJMapping because both those countries are taking in more and more people from inbred countries like pakistan and afghanistan who have lots of kids.
@@CJMappingthey're being invaded by middle easterners and are causing problems by making gangs and doing bad things to women
Don’t leave out Sicily. Yes, it’s part of Italy but inbreeding has gone on for centuries here. It’s only recently (the last 80 years or so) that most people had the transportation possibilities to leave their secluded villages.
Understanding the crime rates it makes sense
Even in England, cousin marriage was common before the railroads. Just read Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. The heroine marries her cousin. Their mothers were sisters. It could be difficult to find someone of the right status nearby.
@@joanhuffman2166 I really don't understand why anyone is surprised England and Sicily are "left out" -they weren't "left out", they just aren't "inbred" compared to other countries globally. You guys are making European comparisons, whereas this list is considering the entire world. No Western European countries (or regions) are going to rank next to largely isolated areas of the Global South.
@@themaskedman221 you are thinking only of modern times. A couple of centuries back and it's a different story.
@@joanhuffman2166 Is this video focused on "a couple centuries back" or modern times? The effects of inbreeding reverse in as little as two generations.
You left out by far the most important reason for the inbreeding of most of these countries: tribalism. Within tribal societies, it has always been preferable to marry within the tribe. That's why half of the countries in the video are Arab countries, and it's well-known that most Arab societies are still largely tribal. The same applies for Pakistan and Afghanistan-even though they're not Arab countries, Pashtuns, an staunchly tribal people, form about half of the population of Afghanistan and about 15% of Pakistan. Another 15-20% of Pakistan's population is made up of tribal peoples such as Balochis and Saraikis.
Despite what you hinted at in your video, the religion of Islam has little to do with the inbreeding of these countries, even though most of the countries you mentioned are Muslim-majority; it just so happens that most Muslim countries have a large tribal population. Take Iran and Turkey, for instance, who, despite being Muslim countries, have a far less inbred population, since both are, and traditionally have been, urban/sedentary societies.
What's interesting was that the Turks didn't start out sedentary but they didn't seemed to obsess about "keeping it in the family" as much as the other mentioned ethnic groups. Is there a study if steppe groups also didn't have plenty of inbreeding?
@@nunyabiznes33 I'm not well-versed in Turkic culture and history, but I don't think what you're saying is entirely accurate. There are still Turkic tribes in Iran, for instance, such as the Qashqai tribe, who almost exclusively marry their own cousins. My own family is a descendant of the Turkic Aq-Qoyunlu tribe and, although we've become completely urbanized and detribalized since the time of my great-grandfather, we've still kept semi-alive some of the customs and traditions of our ancestors, such as having a slight preference for marriage between cousins.
Turks were originally just as tribal as Arabs, and just like other nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples, they did have a preference for keeping marriages within the tribe, and some still do to this day. Turks of Turkey aren't particularly inbred today because they're genetically largely the same Anatolians of three thousand years ago. They only got linguistically Turkified, not genetically or culturally. The Anatolians, instead of adopting the tribal practices of their Turkic overlords, assimilated _them_ into their own sedentary lifestyle. You could say the reverse happened in Levant and Mesopotamia, where the native sedentary populations gradually adopted the tribalism of their Arab overlords.
@@lambert801 You seem to be mistaken about modern Turks, native Anatolians most definitely accepted Turkic culture, and Turkic culture itself did not condone incest. You'd find that most nomadic groups tried to avoid incest as much as possible, unless they had adopted religions that allowed or even endorsed incest, like the Persian Zoroastrianism. This is definitely far more complicated.
Dude pashtuns are nowhere near half of Pakistan's population. Punjabis and Sindhis still inbreed a lot, it isn't just pashtuns.
Many tribal societies have a tradition of bringing new blood from outside of the tribe
Another factor that was passed over quickly was social class. The upper and elite classes often intermarried and this was known to cause problems. In Europe there were a few well known cases in noble families and the results. There are also the stories of particularly "ill-favored" issue being shut away or vanished.
These marriages were made to cement power and wealth.
The Hapsburgs had some funny looking chins.
@@xxxBradTxxx They were one of them.
Even the royal family?
England's Queen Victoria has so many relatives/descendents throughout Europe that she is called "Europe's Grandmother." Much inbreeding in the royal families in Europe.
True and, it's certainly not just in the past but, very, very present!!!
In most of African countries and more so in East Africa, it is a taboo to marry from not only a first cousin but even a distance relative. As a Meru tribe from Kenya, when people wants to marry, their bloodline is thoroughly scrutinized
Good. Too many other nations could learn from you. 🙏
That's the same for india
and you would think it would be illegal to marry your cousin in the U.S., but it is legal in many states.
@@sctsh1491if it were Illegal you’d have to jail or deport at least 20% of middle eastern immigrants
America was kinda special. California was basically populated by all the scum rushing there after the gold miners money in hundreds to one ratios of men than women. The Indian ran wild and afraid.
A friend, himself married to a first cousin, as his parents were, told me that the reason for those marriages is "greed" (his exact word). It is based on the desire to keep all the family wealth within the family, the family wealth usually being, or involving, ancestral lands in the home country. First comes the arranged marriage to a first cousin, and thereafter the focus is a non-stop competition with one's in-laws.
@@k-Sayl And remember, such inbreeding results in a lot of illness which costs the medical system an enormous amount of money, much more than for non-inbred populaitons. The genetic illness risks are known ahead of time but it's considered to be just the cost of keeping the money. The amount it costs the British medical system, for example, has been studied and it's 'way out of line. A British Baroness who is Muslim has spoken about this publicly.
yes muslims speak out about it because it isn't an islamic thing, it's a cultural thing very common in south asia. Islam doesn't prohibit you from marrying your first cousin but doesn't encourage it either, and many muslim religious leaders will advise people who marry their first cousins to do things like blood & dna tests to look for recessive genes. @@vancouverterry9142
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British government to woke to do anything about it..
@@stevenrichards9703 yeah and even if they did you lot would call it socialism
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle American moment
I havd friends in Tasmania, an island at bottom of Australia where inbreeding has benn rumoured for generations. Was at my mates place about 10 years ago and his young brother (17) was talking about this new girl he was really fond of, when the Dad asked if she was a virgin. There was 8 of us at the dining table. Tommy said she was (a virgin). The Dad then thundered 'Well, if she ain't good enough for her own family, she's certainly not good enough for ours'. I will never forget that moment
Hahahahaha!!!
NSW
That joke was old before you were born.
Oh boy... 😮
What is the ancestor of the father at dinner table. Is inbreeding a reason Tasmanians are considered a little backward?. Just asking
@@valiaudet3415 it's a very old joke.
Iceland has only 300 000 people which is less than my city's population.
@Nick-ql6ov but they used to
And the Faroe Islands has just over 50k. People
@Nick-ql6ov idk but one guy from Iceland Saud they all kinda know each other because of how few people there are.
@Nick-ql6ovmy city has a greater population than Australia.
@Nick-ql6ovThey do, just not first cousins. Relations between more distant cousins generally carry a lower risk of passing on any birth defects or deformities. Studies have even shown that third cousin marriages are the most fertile and successful on average.
Just a tip. We historians aren't trained in the medical science of genetics. I was informed by a geneticist a while back that there's a lot of popular misunderstanding of the risks of inbreeding. Apparently, it's not as simple as "Don't breed with your cousins." Its repeated generations of inbreeding where things start to go wrong - or, you know, REALLY keeping it 'in the family" as in immediate family.
This makes sense if you consider how, before the industrial revolution, there were countless small isolated villages and cousin marriage was practically universal.
As always, when we historians do topics that touch on science, it's best to err on the side of caution and defer to scientific expertise.
Ems4884, you are 100% correct. The fact that he refers to this as disgusting shows that he isn't that intelligent and likes to pass on "facts " he had heard, and not true facts. Thanks for interjecting some truth.
It's an interesting thing, to be sure. We all know the stories of Victorian Era aristocrats and the horrific inbreeding all the way up to the Romanovs, but Israelis are super inbred and also some of the smartest people in the world. It's almost like the inbreeding helps them. I expected Israel in this list. But I was surprised that Japan was not here on this list. The Japanese seem to really dislike foreigners, and most Asians seem REALLY inbred to the point where they look like aliens. But they too are known for being very intelligent.
And why are the U.K. countries not on this list? The amount of inbreeding there has got to be insane....but I guess the list was only the top ten and was filled up with Muslim countries.
Some inbred dogs are really smart, like purebred Collies or Corgies. Why is that?
Indians seem quite often to be not at all inbred, with the British influence producing a half and half mix that has lent itself to these gorgeous curvy women. That's what most of these countries really need....some sort of exchange program. As an American man, I would gladly trade all of the American women for the displaced Ukrainian ones. Haha But seriously, such a thing would be fantastic for future generations. There are no more Vikings to do it; a world-wide exchange program would have great benefit. There should at least be some sort of global approval for pairing up with a spouse from another culture, just as there should be a stigma against pairing up with relatives.
yep just like unethical pet breeders who practice line breeding
@@thepitpatrolbecause it it’s disgusting
@@suzumi111 in your opinion.
USA also has a lot of donor children who are never told of their donor status and a lack of a donor cap means that there are hundreds of siblings all across the country or even internationally. There are even donors that possibly have THOUSANDS of children but no one keeps records of it. So we may find in the next few decades that the USA becomes a lot more inbred. Because even if the half siblings don't marry (which HAS happened) they have cousins and possibly THOUSANDS of nieces/nephews they don't know about. Including siblings that may not be born yet due to the freezing of embryos and will be the same age as their children causing generations of accidental inbreeding.
Nah, this is a poorly researched video. In 2019, the journal Nature published a study backed by genetic evidence that 1 out of every 3,650 people in the UK is likely to be the result of “extreme inbreeding” between close relatives. Extreme inbreeding is defined as 1 or 2 degrees relatives, meaning parent-child or siblings. Not even first cousins, which is a fourth degree of consanguinity, Now this is very disgusting.
It’s not just donors but also promiscuous behaviour from men especially in the South .
@@MelaniaRose I am brazilian .Of the total number of children born across the country this year 6.8% are included in the statistics of certificates with an absent father. This percentage varies between five and ten percent, with a higher percentage ( 10%) in the Amazon region. THe country will have troubles in next future with half siblings marriage
one marriage between cousins is not that dangerous. The problem in the countries you've seen is marriage between cousins, that were born from cousins for several generations, they have no genetic diversity at all, it's all the same family.
Another reason to be completely against commercial surrogacy.
Kentucky has done a lot to stop inbreeding and you have to provide family information when applying for a marriage license and sign a document stating that you're not related and you're willing to undergo genetic testing if the state believes otherwise. I think some people in Eastern Kentucky still do it but for the most part, it's not acceptable and highly ridiculed.
How do you explain they've been voting for Mitch McConnell, the most ineffectual senator, since 1984? Isn't Kentucky one of the poorest states with low educational standards?
@donk8105 But ya sure do have a perdy mouth!
They moved up to West Virssippi (Indiana)
@donk8105 I could easily imagine those inbred people who bullied you sounding like Meatwad for some reason because of the PS2 Jimmy Neutron Jet Fusion game.
Inbreeding has nothing to do with marriage. You can have sex without getting married. FYI
Not mentioned in the opening, 10th century Icelanders caught in blood shame (incest) were drowned in the Drekkingarhylur pool at Thingvellir. On the other hand, I used to work in the tech industry with a well-educated Egyptian who was proud to have had four children with his first cousin.
That speaks volumes
And you can be guaranteed that he was not a Coptic Christian - the minority of Egyptians who are Christian who have somehow escaped forced conversion or death by the Arab religion/culture which has overtaken the rest of Egypt. Hint Arabic is not the language the Egyptians of Cleopatra's time were speaking.
I studied this several years back. Here in the US, trailer park and cousin jokes are common. It's illegal most places and highly frowned upon within the Church, however, there are areas where this is prevalent, with the uneducated and predatory folks. Things I noticed via research: Today, this is having a resurgence in areas where people know better. And, if you're from abroad and your family tree is inverted, you should never make trailer park jokes. Also, if you pay attention to the places where this is acceptable, the commonalities are violence, under developed, and tribalism.
And a massive lack of education...!
I’m sure the Navajo people didn’t want to be subjected to a systemic genocide.
In Iceland, they have an old registry to which individuals marrying each other refer before the marriage to confirm that they are not closely related. The Icelandic students have probably followed in the steps of this century old registry.
the trouble is, when you look at ACTUAL heredity as opposed to believed heredity, about 10% of people in the UK don't have the biological father they thought they did, rising to 20% in some liverpool council estates apparently. And as we discovered, my maternal grandfather didn't have the mother we thought he did as after my randparents died my Mum found out he was brought up by his aunt instead of his mum as his mum was not married. You only need to go back a few generations and this compounding effect makes a mockery of family history.
I like Iceland my Family is from Norway. I like that Iceland tends to keep out non European immigration and I like that , hopefully other Nordic Countries will adapt Iceland immigration practices
@@VikingforLife-r5nIceland is also heavily inbred too
I have a son with my girlfriend who is my 5th cousin and a lot of foreigners find that repulsive but here we are barely considered related.
5th cousin is not closely related@@oligultonn
For the US states, it should be noted that _allowing_ first-cousin marriage isn't the same as mandating it, nor does it have anything to do with actual social trends. It simply means that no one sat down and wrote a law restricting it; kind of like how it's legal in most states to tie a giraffe to a fire hydrant.
If anything, you should be concerned about the places that _do_ have such laws, as that would imply that in-breeding is on enough radars to warrant legislative action.
Good point. I didn't think about why the laws are there but it makes sense. Plus it was the norm even less than a century ago in some places.
Also, he offers no numbers on the percentages in the US. With over 350 million people, I feel sure it's extremely low in percentages. I will try to find the numbers.
@@Timotimo101agreed
It’s like that survivorship bias thing where they were looking at bombers and where they needed to armor the bomber, and were focusing on the places shot up ON PLANES THAT MANAGED TO MAKE IT BACK.
@@connormclernon26 LOL! I think I get your point.
In South Sudan, you cannot even marry someone with whom any of your parents or grandparents come from the same clan. But the Northerners (Sudanese) can marry their cousins because they are already Arabised.
A clan is a subtribe mostly consisting of a few thousand people here
You must be a Nilote, Nilotes in Kenya don't marry from within their clans
Its the same in India.
In north Indian Hindus, you do not marry anyone from your clan, your mother's maiden clan and both your grandmother's maiden clans. You can commit any crime but not this. This is considered beyond disgusting.
Muslims and South Indian hindus do marry their cousins a lot.
Video was a trap because of Indian flag in thumbnail. In Hindu religion marrying some one with same gotra (ancestral lineage) is strictly prohibited.
It had several countries flags. Canada for example.
Looking into consanguinity statistics from the last decade, the USA is not anywhere near the top 10. The inclusion here is kind of questionable. I know Europeans love to think of themselves as superior to Americans, but it's not accurate in this context.
I thought that as well they are really pushing that with all the immigrants and people that don't stay in their home state. The percent capita may be far from number 9. I don't buy it at all.
It could all almost come from super insular fringe Christian sects, oe . The USA also statistically has a huge child bride problem.
"There are, however, specific religious and ethnic minorities with high rates of consanguineous unions. Examples of these include members of the Holiness movement in Kentucky in the 1940s with a consanguinity rate of 18.7% (inbreeding coefficient 0.0061) (Brown 1951), Kansas Mennonites in the 1980s with 33.0% consanguinity (mean inbreeding coefficient 0.0030) (Moore 1987), and Romani Americans in Boston in the 1980s with a 61.9% consanguinity rate (inbreeding coefficient 0.0170) (Thomas et al. 1987)." - PMID: 28717657
also those people who live in the states are also european in origin and are not Native to the Americas. Indigenous Americans don't originate from europe.
Alabama disagrees
@Tate525 Where is the actual data? It's an outdated stereotype.
I am an Eastern European Jew living in the US. Although my parents aren’t related, the OP is correct in stating that my ethnic group has experienced a lot of inbreeding. I have some serious genetic problems as a result. For that reason, I think people should try to mate outside of their ethnic group.
Mating inside the ethnic group isn't negative for most ethnicities. Most Italians , Greeks, Germans etc are 3rd and 4th cousins whitch means there are virtually zero problems from inbreeding. Jews just had a disastrous genetic bottle neck.
And we wonder why a lot of blondes in Israel are dating either arabs or subsaharans, or middle eastern jews
On the one hand
On the other hand, many Diaspora Jews have felt betrayed by their non-Jewish friends and even partners' treatment of the rise in antisemitism this month, so it's a coin toss between risking inbreeding and risking your and your children's safety.
Just because you have genetic problems doesn't mean its inbreeding. I have a Terminal disease. My mother Irish my Father Russian. The mutation dates back almost 45,000 years. Issue with breeding outside ethnic group you get rare diseases that are no associated and can result in severe illness and death. Example we had a Asian/American family with a child who had Sickle Cell die because they had no family history but turned out the carried the gene. It may sound simple. A blood test but mistakes happen or are missed.
Oh yeah, not surprised you’d advocate white women mating with black men. How original.
I'm shocked Quebec didnt come up, we are all related to each other 1st second third etc cousins as we all descended from 33 founding families
What about the immigrants who came afterwards, who married other immigrants?.
Sorry, but your comment makes little sense.
He said countries, and last time I check Quebec is not a country. yet. We'll have to wait And see for another referendum with unanimous approval or whatever, maybe even a successful rebellion, for Quebec to be a country. But as of now Quebec is not yet a country.
Canadians doctors know this, Canadians of French Canadian decent have a tendency to inherent certain illnessness. Genetically High Cholestral, and Cystic Fibrosis are some of the illnessness. Its called the founder effect and its because Quebec was cut off from the world for about 150 yrs. People had large families and intermarried. It has nothing to do with recent immigration.
I don't think anybody is surprised that most of this list is from Muslim countries.
@@anda3120 Not so uncommon among ultra orthodox Jews in countries where it is legal, especially rabbinical "dynasty" families.
@@marianparoo1544This is very uncommon among ultra-Orthodox. There are specifically very small groups of ultra-Orthodox who do this, but the absolute majority of ultra-Orthodox do not, it's like Mormons and extremist groups of Christians
@@s123-v3x Did you know that according to the Old Testament and Halacha (Jewish Sharia) an uncle and niece may marry? There was a case in either NY or NJ where since there was no incest law against Uncle-Niece marriage it had to be allowed in the end.
Yea, Muslim nations like Iceland and the USA.
USA is diverse remember ,has some of the Highest number of immigrants n muslims@@milascave2 . Iceland has 300,000 people this is a population problem
I am Dutch and grew up with the Turkish and Moroccan community. I can say that many of my Turkish and Moroccan friends were born to related parents. There are also often large age differences, with the man (cousin) being 20 years or more older. I sometimes discussed with them why their parents are cousins? I received the answer that it is quite normal. I also found it strange that girls were married off to cousins or older men who had never met. In fact, this still happens in the Netherlands. Many Turkish and Moroccan men marry a younger cousin from their country of origin, because Turkish and Moroccan girls born in the Netherlands are often highly educated and too Westernized. Is there no real love, I asked them? According to them, if you are with someone for a long time, you will naturally love someone.
This is why 99,999% of children in europe with authism or medical conditions have muslim parents
Most inbred in the Nederlands hapens in Urk.
Their book allows it and encourages it. That is why they have related parents. They are strong followers of the book, even if it is wrong. The mentality being the book is always right and the book of god.
it is not considered normal by most turks, it really depends on the region they come from. Kurds and arabs from Turkey tend to do it way more often and ethnic turks from Karadeniz and Konya regions do it too but it is not that common. I can confirm most ethnic turks are disgusted by cousin marriage though and it is a very huge taboo for balkan Turks, we are not even allowed to marry someone related to us by 7 generations back traditionally, cousin marriage is a semitic tradition brought to Turks by islam but it is not embraced by most Turks. A turk by ethnicity and a turk by nation is not the same thing like you tend to think in the Netherlands by the way, it is an umbrella term used by all people from Turkey besides being an ethnonym. Also sorry but turkish people or people from Turkey in the netherlands to be more exact are not better educated then Turkish girls form Turkey, they are seen as very ignorant, bad mannered and outright brutish by most Turkish people and are a lot more likely to be religious freaks. Do not overestimate your country as it has definetely failed when it comes to minorities, how the hell did you guys let them to become so freakishly distinct and fanatical in the first place? cousin marriage rate for Turkey is only about 5% www.statista.com/statistics/1344004/turkey-consanguineous-marriage-rate/
Unfortunately the European kids these days are having to grow up only with kids whose parents are cousins.
Southeasterners in the US are aware of this stereotype and actively try and get away from it. All the inbreeding stereotypes developed earlier in US history when transportation was difficult unlike modern times and there wasn't much choice in who people married. I've known some from that area and they really go out of their way to break the mold.
_"they really go out of their way to break the mold."_
- As in they marry their second cousins?
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Only if they're hot
@@gsomethingsomething2658 All of America has a rate of consanguous marriage of les than 1%, even the southern states. Whereas ALL of the Middle East has rates above 30%. So please, go ahead and make a similar joke about Egyptians or Pakistanis, I will wait.
I live in South Carolina and when I was growing up, I wondered about how some families had the same defects (mental or physical). This was the early 70s. I don't see it as much as I used to, but I tell young people to find someone out of the state!😂 I'm a teacher, and most schools I've taught at have kids that are related, or find out their "crush" is their cousin! 😄
Better yet just move out of state on your own.
In the Balkans, inbreding is huge taboo. We have words to descibe many types of family reltions going bacl at least 200 years. It is realy normal and common for people to know their family trees.
You also have a grandmother to tell you if person you are dating is comming from good family, bad family or your family.
Which country in the Balkans tell us we want to know 🤔 😏 👀
I’m from Ghana 🇬🇭- it’s a MASSIVE TABOO to marry your relative it simply doesn’t happen. People take careful task of a potential marriage mate to avoid any extended relation.
I simply can’t wrap my head around cultures that are ok with marrying first cousins!!! And they don’t seem to see or care about the generic complications that are quite obvious when you look at their children.
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@@Dorian-wf1ivMacedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Bulgaria. As for Albania and Bosnia (Muslims) different story, but for the former nations mentioned I can concede that we MUST not have a single trace of relation between each other otherwise we will be the “outcasts” of the community.
For example it’s such taboo that my brother cannot marry my wife’s cousin because it’s still considered “inbreeding”.
Yay Utah!! Anyway, Utah's in-breeding problem is due to the history of polygamy practiced by the dominant religion of Utah during the 1800's. However, polygamy was stopped as a religious practice in 1890 and since then, the amount of in-breeding has greatly decreased. Utah is also a state that does not allow first cousin marriages and coupled with the fact that the dominate religion is greatly focused on genealogy, it's fairly easy to know if a prospective spouse is actually your a relative. There are still pockets of people in Utah who practice polygamy, but these people are not members of the dominate religion and their risk of in-breeding is much greater than the population of Utah at large.
@jacqueschouette7474 ---> Well said/written Jacque! {You stole my speech! 😊}
The video maker is leaving out lots of factual information it seems to me. I was born there, and half of my relatives are there. In the southern and western and eastern less populous parts of Utah where the descendants of the 1840's - 1860's pioneers settled, there was of course some inbreeding, and is still a problem in remote areas/towns.
What the video maker guy did not mention by name is/are the various Indian tribes in the U.S. especially in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada {[ Which also have higher amounts of L.D.S./Mormons that most States]}
On the first map that he showed in dark red are Hopi, Ute, Navajo, Apache, Shoshone, Paiute, Pima and Papago tribes, often living on tribal lands. They are often in remote areas, so I would not be surprised if there was in-breeding going on. Lots of booze drinking on the reservations and on Native tribal areas in Alaska also. I spent 5 years up there. Not a good mix. People do stupid things when they are tipsy and drunk.
Inbreeding is highly discouraged and far less common in the US with about 0.2 percent of American marriages being inbred, representing roughly
When you dont see your country: 😅
When you realise record keeping in your country is nonexistent: 😰
Qatar is not an island nation. That white line to the south of it on the map you showed is the land border with Saudi Arabia.
for real, im from the USA and know next to nothing of the region and still noticed that XD
Fun fact Saudi Arabia once threatened to turn Qatar into an Island.
I was just asking myself, wasn't qatar a peninsula or did they do something using their wealth? Like how could I have missed that, was it ever on the news?
and I 've seen other stats where they saied Saudi Arabia was the most inbred country in the world up to 60% . It's linked to tribalism.
I knew most of the top ten countries we're going to be Muslim countries.🤢🤢🤢
being muslim has nothing to do with it
@@trisk902 what a coincidence
@@clinged2711 have you heard of culture before
yeah it is, cos i come from a muslim country where incest is illegal. @@clinged2711
@@trisk902it's halal to marry cousins in Islam
I am Punjabi and first cousin marriage is highly taboo in my culture. Even marring someone with the same last name, because they may have come from the same village originally. Even marrying people in a family who are not genetically related is taboo, for example a sister of a brother-in-law.
Ur not Muslim tho
@businessman4473 they still do. I am malayali, i have witnessed this🤦🏽♂️
That must be new,
All Punjabis I meet usually have the surnames Singh or Kaur. Very confusing when having to write references for them when they all have the same fucking name.
That's not true. There's a great deal of intermarriage among Punjabis.
Im surprised more island countries in the pacific are not on the list.
Me too as my father came from island people.
Exactly. It’s not talked about in mainstream.
😂😂😂😂😂 Oh trust me it used to happen, and every now and then it does, but because of Christian beliefs, it's not as prevalent as in the past. It's why there are so many people of mixed ancestry in the Pacific. You can only get to a certain point until everyone is related. As new visitors arrived the first thing people did in the past was to make children. Now it's a bit more subtle and people aren't doing those types of things anymore.
Did you not watch the video? He said data from many countries isn't available so they aren't on the list.
@@fertilerevitilizer7833 Yes Karen I watched the video. Missing countries is different than a continent and entire region.
Spelling error on the title card for Mauritania. Clip used for flag of Palestine was actually the flag of the UAE. I’m going to give the same advice I give to my grad students: obvious errors like these detract from the material you are trying to present. If you can’t get something simple correct, how can I trust that the main material is correct?
I hope that the creator(s) heed my advice. The topic was interesting and I hope the channel does well.
they were so many mistakes. These videos are not good, they don't put any effort , they will just read a wikipedia page and stick random pictures over them. Yet... everyone clicks.
Also, they tried to claim that Qatar was an island.
This guy would get a fail in any academic environment. Those simple errors were the least of his problems. Start with the lack of any evidence provided them move onto use loaded language (he called the US disgusting on this matter.) and he made no attempt to provide explanation of difference between wide spread approval by a country of cousin marriage and occurrences because of geographic and ethnic isolation.
In Serbia, people do not call their cousins,1st or 2nd cousin and so on, they're brothers or sisters from uncle, aunt... It's more personalized. It's like a taboo to go there even in mind. I was shocked when an Englishman told me that it is ok for 2nd cousins to be married. I believe that experience told humans what is good and what is bad.
Yeah in Orthodox Christianity inbredinf is forbidden
I’m an 🇺🇸 black woman, and in my family the dynamic between the cousins who are the children of our parents brothers and sisters is very close and like quasi-siblings.
I was communicating with some women in a FB group that had a lot of women from all over the world and I was trying to explain why it would be revolting in my own family to marry my cousins (though extremely good-looking)-like in cest! 😮
My mother’s nephews (my cousins) are very, very good-looking, but they are like brothers…
@@kittykatz4001 only in usa but for black women in africa its common
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It’s the same for me. I’m Zambian, my children born in the U.K. also use the same way with my siblings children. Thank God for deep rooted culture.
It explains a lot. Ghetto conclaves of cultural beliefs are becoming sickening.
Slight correction, you have Australia in all blue. This is incorrect as the laws vary by state. Several states do not permit the marriage of cousins.
it would be impossible to make an accurate map since many "states" in a country have slightly different laws
@@pingu6028They did it with the US
@@crunkya3218US double standards be like:
The problem with Australia is you can go to a state within Australia where it's legal and the whole of Australia will recognise the marriage certificate so in all it still allows inbreeding!!!
I’m in Australia and and least everyone knows someone who’s married their own cousin here 😂
As an Estonian, I clicked on this hoping to see Finland :D This is one of the jokes we have about them, despite being very friendly neighbours. I guess it is a cope, because they had way less turbulent history, while we were r*ped by everyone... Germans, Swedes, Danes, Russians, and most importantly, the Valiant Semigallians. They all had a field day. So now we have the most supermodels per capita and we're doing well in the world science rankings, but we're still dirt poor :(
I am so sorry to hear that😢. I think thanks to globalisation now we wouldn't have to use rape for genetic variation.
Finland does have a very homogenous population. Various studies do suggest that.
Conquest doesn't necessarily mean r*pe.
For example in Russia, everyone believed that we all have Mongol DNA due to Mongol conquest, but DNA studies showed it is not true. I think in Estonia people just married people of different ethnic groups as long as they had the same religion, and that prevented inbreeding. Finland having inbred population is a common myth, very false and untrue as well, Finns descended from multiple migrations into their area since prehistoric times, they have diverse gene pool.
Not rich, but certainly not dirt poor.
I found this online: "Inbreeding is highly discouraged and far less common in the US with about 0.2 percent of American marriages being inbred, representing roughly 250,000 Americans. Despite the health risks that come along with marrying relatives, first-cousin marriage is legal in 19 states.Apr 3, 2023." You provide no actual numbers in your report yet place US at number 10.
yeah placing america in top 10 doesn't make sense.
10 - USA
9 - YEMEN
8 - ISRAEL
7 - PALESTINE (?)
6 - SUDAN
5 - MAURETANIA
4 - JORDAN
3 - QATAR AND BAHRAIN
2 - AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN
1 - BURKINA FASO
I am pleasantly surprised Bangladesh is not on the list, since I know so many people in my family who married their cousin (including my parents). I guess it is becoming less and less common
Bangladesh has hot chicks
But yet the USA is here yet most people here have never met or even heard of 1rst cousins getting married.
india also. most of the muslims are marrying their cousins.
Why does Islam permit cousin marriages??
My sense says that because it evolved out of desert which generally has very few people and difficulty of terrain makes people have no choice.
How many fingers do you have?
I do not see how you could have put the United States as 10th because all the research I have done on this shows that any other middle eastern country is way higher than them What was your reasoning for this
You know why!
the US isn't even in the top 100. this guy has a hardon for us I guess.
Cuz he's Bri'ish and a snob but it's racist to call Muslims "disgusting" but okay to call New Mexicans (generally not white tbh) "disgusting". Make it make sense!
Considering the stereotypes, it's suprising that so many states have banned first cousin marriage.
It the groups its pandemic in eg not long go Italians and Greeks for one! Now its Muslims!
Its interesting he quotes a paper 07:40 but then completely leaves the saudis 40% and indians 55% off the lists! i think a little biased!
Its not a stereotype outside of Hill people or Native tribes for ibreeding to occur at all in the United States.
You're surprised because you get your worldview from Hollywood 🤦
@@fertilerevitilizer7833 'member kids yte people bad, christian bad. mkay?
@@pierluigiadreani2159 ?
Also left out are the Mormons. Here in this remote mountain region my sister who worked for a national health organization and provided health and wellness services to mothers and children; she said the amount of birth defects were more than double the national average.
I know of several instances where the bride didn't even have to change her last name. The were 2nd cousins with the same last name. Their children had hereditary problems with heart and cognitive issues. A real shame.
Interesting that this was not mentioned when many problems with genetic disorders associated with interbreeding are studied from people in Utah.
It's a scandal that they don't want yo to know about. They are a sick cult.
He mentioned Utah as an inbred state
I'm surprised the Azores Islands weren't mentioned. For hundreds of years most of the population was fairly isolated at 1,400 km west of Portugal, out in the Atlantic Ocean.
I think this is true of most, if not all small island states, as it's certainly the case in some Caribbean countries.
Alot of sailors also passed through as well,heard of quite a few people there having relatively recent north African ancestry to some extent
@@Dragoncam13 The Moors traveled from North Africa to Spain, not the Azores Islands.
@@AlexaLake1 I’m talking about more recent Barbary immigrants from the last 400 years. The azores and the Canary Islands were well known for Europeans and even North Africans of different ethnicities passing through for either trading or staying and intermarrying which was most definitely the case with some of the few almost quarter Berber azorean islanders I’ve met.
The issue here is big nations...
As an Australian I was surprised to find out it was legal to marry a cousin here, having said that (no doubt like many other countries like the US (as a whole), Canada et al) I don't know any one who has married a cousin (1st, 2nd or whatever).
Same here as an Aussie, but it’s common to know at least one couple who are married cousins (depending on the demographics where you live). Even for a place like Australia with having alot of options for a mate, cousin marriages are probably low these days.
@@MelaniaRose Most people naturally find the idea of marrying a cousin let alone a brother/sister/etc is beyond disgusting that is already enough of a deterrent to prevent people from marrying each other.
@@HarpreetSingh-kj8ro A lot of people find the idea of marrying ANYONE beyond disgusting. Watching other people go through divorce is enough of a deterrent for me 🤢🤮
In the US it's probably more no married births between cousins that is the problem. Most Americans don't get married anymore but they do still have children.
@@crimsoncockatoo4613rd cousins share very little DNA, so it hardly counts as incest. As a matter of fact, studies have shown that 3rd cousin marriages are more fertile and more likely to be successful.
I'm from Serbia and I can confirm that within Slav nations all over Eastern Europe there was never cousins marrying eachother. I have never even heard of such thing even when it comes to Muslim nations of ex Yugoslavia, Slav or no- Slav ones . It is not forbidden or it is, I have no idea, because nobody practicises it. But Claude Levy Strauss wrote in 'Structure of relations between relatives', or something like that translated from French to English , that societies from Polinesia to Georgia (ex Soviet Union, Caucas country) are countries where cousins marrigies are being practicised ( the book was written in 1949.) He never qualifies that type of societes ( he never says this sort of societies are 'traditional', 'tribal' etc.), all I know is that this was never practicised in Slav cultures throughout Europe. You can 't even find such an example in 18th or 19th century Slav literature. Even before Peter the Great this sort of marrige was totally forbidden amongst Slavs despite the fact all these societies were semi tribal in 17. century and some (Russia and Ukraine) had even pagan population well into deep 19.century ( mentioned even by Dostoyevsky in his books from 1878- 1881.)
People living in the high altitude valleys of the Alps (like canton Valais in Switzerland) have been isolated for a long time and both modernity and mobility mainly happened only after WWII. Both sides of my family come from little villages in remote mountain area. Consanguinity is so high that you could literally identify someone from their facial features, hair and eyes (phenotype) as coming from this or that area of the Alps until the end of the XXth century ! (I have been personally spotted twice in a city of 200'000 people in another canton as coming from my father's village, by total strangers !). I have several 1st cousin couples in my close ancestry, and many more-or-less cousins couples. I had my DNA checked and when I looked for my relatives, I was amazed to see that almost everyone who had made the test in my father village of origin shares a little common DNA with me.
True. Also in most of the deepest country sides in Germany.
@@KikyKreemcheese What about the so called Schwäbische Alb in Germany? Same?
@@grunerbaum5143 oh yes! Thanks 🤣
In India, the Hindu (or Sanatan) culture since many thousands of years, the tradition is to seek person for marriage without common ancestor for 7 generations. And how people in ancient times used to get this info? Well, that was from the temples which had birth and death records of people in a very large area and named family lineage as 'Gotra'. They did not marry within the same gotra.
But Brahma r aped his daughter
But Brahma r aped his daughter
@@Fundamental_Islam.🤡
@@Fundamental_Islam.mu ham mad the 1st pdfile.
@@patriotenfield3276 this is how you defend Brahma? 😂 pathetic. Btw did those 1000 vegene Indra got, as a curse for r aping a girl, get periods?
Alright New Mexico! Now the Alabama jokes can stop. I hate telling people I'm from AL 😂 (for more reasons than one but yeah)
I know, but I tend to lean into it.
As a New Mexican I will no longer joke about Alabama. We got the crack heads, meth heads and now most inbred. Explains why peeps here are the way the are 😂
"Sweet Home New Mexico" just doesn't have the same ring to it lol.
"Sweet Home Arabia" yeah I can work with that.
The American correlation between îñčèst and rãcîsm is mindblowing almost feels as if theyre overcompensating for.something, a smalllllll gene pool
So interesting! Love this channel❤
When I was around 10 I met a Lebanese girl in primary school. In the area I was from in Australia at the time was all Christian. I had never encountered a Muslim before. She had lots of sibblings & 3 of them were severely handicapped with Cerebral Palsy. I asked her what happened to your siblings? She very matter of factly told me "Oh thats because my parents are FIRST COUSINS!!! I went home & told my mum & she scrunched up her face & said "Muslim's do that" & she told me in our Orthodox Christian religion we are not even allowed to marry even 3rd cousins.
Another time I was at my mother-in-laws house in Sydney & her neighbours asked us to come over & look at their baby. The parents were FIRST COUSINS & looked more like TWINS. When we were asked who does the baby look like? We looked at each other & were stumped as to how to answer. M-in-law said "she looks like her parents" & she did. All three of them looked like triplets 😮. In my religion its the BIGGEST NO NO NO NO.
This explains the chaos in the Middle East!!!! Incest can manifest itself not only physically but mentally or BOTH. No excuse for it in modern times 😮😮😮
There is definetly a positive relationship between inbreeding and religious extremism & instability, the top 3 countries mentioned are quite literally falling apart as we speak.
I've heard a "theory" on that recently, brought to the forefront by what's going on lately. The prevelent inbreedign in islam is why they are so violent. This will get censored, but I coudl care less anymore.
Well, yeah. The consequences of those two things will significantly limit the dating pool.
bingo
@@tommoore4128 Except the dating pool was already limited by tribalism.
How the fuck are Qatar, Bahrain, and Burkina Faso falling apart?
7:09 Qatar isn't a Island, it's a peninsula
Pheeeew, now I can go to sleep tonight.
Just like Monster Island.
@@KasumiKenshirou this is the comment I was looking for 🐸
Saudi Arabia has plans to dig a canal the length of its border with Gulf rival Qatar, to turn the peninsula into an island and further isolate it
Seeing as how there is a significant lack of island nations on this list, it's dubious at best.
You didn't watch the video did you? He said within the first few seconds that not all nations are sharing data or capable of it, so they can't be in the list
@@fertilerevitilizer7833 Yet we do have that mapped information out, a cursory search will point you to Harvard and much other established and documented insight regarding islanders, both Pacific and Atlantic. Stating that their own research for the video is myopic at the outset doesn't give them a pass. Again, dubious.
@@fertilerevitilizer7833 no, putting America (less than 1% consanguous marriage rate) on the list was politically motivated and incorrect. Do you really think they don't keep records in countries like Brazil or Egypt that didn't make the list but have much higher rates? Even Japan has a higher rate (approximate 1-4%). Do you think Japan of all places cannot keep records? America is nowhere near the top ten and falls in line with the rates of most European countries, lower than some.
My family on both sides is from Georgia USA. Even dating a second or third cousin is looked at with alarm. My half brother dated a third cousin of ours and everyone was upset and his father was a New York Italian. At Thanksgiving dinner I mentioned a girl in high school and you would have thought I said I was converting to cannablism. They said I am a third cousin on my mother's side and a second cousin on my father's side. It might have made us closer than first cousins. My grandmother slammed a heavy mug on the table and said, "Their're not having babies. Yet! My family has lived in south Georgia since colonial times makes it hard to find a wife you aren't related to. I married a German/Dutch woman luckly.
Im bosnian and it's considered extremely inappropriate to marry your 3rd even 4th cousins.
It used to be you had to get a blood test before you married
There was a couple who each took a DNA test and found out they were brother and sister.
My family is from GA too (Sasser area) and were from slaves. Stories passed down that masters didn't/wouldn't inbreed slaves ofter because of the chance it would "ruin the stock". I think it's why you don't see a lot of Black Americans with allergies, serious medical conditions that White Americans routinely get. Black ppl it's usually diet and Sickle Cell but that's it for deformities.
@@ADadSupreme
Black people get sickle cell disease, heart disease, cancer so I don’t where you came up with they don’t get sick. I’m from the south too. There were also black slave owners.
Interesting video. Although I think the UAE should be on the list...Also I have never heard anyone pronounce Yemen the way you do before - it was unexpected
I remember reading a report of a scientific paper, which put forward the theory that inbreeding may have been a causal factor in the extinction of the Neanderthals. It is thought they congregated in relatively small groups, and became inbred, with all its problems, including infertility.
it is a fact that north of the desert in Africa, most people have a small % of Neanderthal blood. So Homo sapiens did breed with Neanderthals, so they never really became fully extinct, just highly recessive.
@@shaydowsith348 Most if not all people have Neanderthal in them.
It might be allowed to marry your first cousin in Australia,apparently, but I’ve never met anyone who has married into their family line. Maybe some immigrant populations where it’s their culture. There are so many choices if you can’t find someone that’s not related to you then you have a bigger problem
these people usually lives outside of the city
Considering there's supposedly 7+ billion people on earth, there are about 100 million people of the opposite sex around your age group to hook up with globally. Indbreeding should certainly not be a problem at this point in history.
#8 Can confirm. I couldn't rule out my exes having been my 5th cousins, since too many records were lost in pogroms to track our bloodlines that far, in an ethnicity where the background relatedness was that of 3rd cousins. It's either exogamy or inbreeding for me, and the former, which I ultimately chose, is stigmatized and has recently become dangerous for the same reasons that caused us to be inbred to begin with. So while CONVENTIONAL cousin marriages might be exceptionally rare outside of a few minorities, GENETIC cousin marriages are unavoidable.
It's not so bad to be number eight though. This video states that it was not their fault and they are in fact victims of Christians and Muslims.
@@unconsciouscreator3012 True, but it's not about who's fault it is when you live with the consequences of inbreeding or risk any child you have within your ethnicity to die a torturous death in their infancy/toddlerhood bc of inbreeding. I also don't blame any of the "winners" for being inbred, only for continuing the practice.
I'm just disappointed in my country - Iceland managed to circumvent this issue rather nicely, why can't we? We're a start-up nation and all.
@@nitzan3782 You can't because you want to be Jews I think. Nobody has to label themselves, but some people want to.
I guess you just take the good with the bad.
5th cousins is not inbreeding
@@bassdgod1Depends on your background inbreeding coefficient. I've once been told the Beta Israel community takes the Iceland approach and treats 7th cousin marriage as incestuous bc they've been genetically isolated from the time of the the First Temple, meaning for >2500yrs.
When the background inbreeding coefficient places your entire ethnicity at 3rd cousin relatedness, I think it's safe to call 5th cousin inbreeding if not outright incest.
Thank you: very interesting.
I expected to see Estonia or Latvia listed somewhere near 10th place due to 800 years of slavery. You weren't allowed to marry or leave your farm without German landlord permission so people often married people from the farm next to them.
Relative marriage nowadays is a big no-no so I guess that's why it didn't make the list.
Lmao. That's why they have incredibly dumb populations
Whilst their Teuton overlords practiced their own inbreeding possibly.?
small european nations usually takes care of that, also since all of us have christian cultural values and cousin marriage was a big no-no and still is in christian law and culture
@@SimonNissen94 No that's a slavic tradition. Christians all over the world especially the germanic ones marry their cousin.
@@Olive_and_Pistachio No they don't i live in a ''germanic'' culture and the only ones marry their cousins here are immigrants from the middle east and africa and they are not christian
When I was in high-school in Vietnam, a first cousin of my mother suggested (more like testing water with my mother) me and her son who was my 2nd cousin. My mother rejected vehemently, not because we were second cousins but because she was aiming unreasonably high for me. In the meanwhile, I did not understand anything. I was a nerd and focused on my calculus study only. 😁
That very close. 5 generations is considered too close in my family's part of the country in Vietnam. It's has to been about 6-7 generation apart is considered suitable.
You would’ve accepted it w no questions asked
Oddly enough, tho gross, marrying second cousins and having children is genetically positive if both are genetically healthy. They surmise it is far enough removed to not cause genetic mutations but close enough that they are less likely to introduce new genetic mutations. This doesn’t make it okay in my eyes tho.
Well that explains my Vietnamese in laws and my ex..
I was married off to my cousin. My parents learned in college that they should be accepting of incest. Now I sit here married to my cousin.
How's your marriage goin?
@@rushatyadav9135 really good. Our kids don’t really have issues either.
@@chrisfloto3599 lucky for you man , I wish you and your family a happy life.
Maybe that explains why people in those regions tend to believe so fervently in having imaginary friends they must spiritually follow.
It does tend to follow.
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There is another problem in some places, which is a traditional cultural practice of men fathering children by many different women. The offspring may not know the identity of the father.
Meaningless SIDESHOW 🚮
Calling the United States on this list at all is rediculous, only 340,000 marriages in the United States qualify as Consainguinous(married within family(and that counts 3rd cousin or closer) out of a population of 340 million, while over 1% of Marriages in Spain, Italy and Portragaul, would qualify as Consainguinous.
Science doesnt lie. The ethnic communities intermarrying in the US may come from less diverse gene pools than Southern Europe. Portugal, for instance, has been made up of its indigenous peolple mixed with Celts, Phoenicians, Romans, Greeks, Jews, Visgoths, Amazigh, etc.. throughout its history. Its a well travelled area.
If you want to know something ironic, the northern US actually has more inbreeding than the south currently in modern history.. The people saying it's specifically and only the south that has inbreeding as a problem are clearly not aware of the laws or actual customs regarding north v. south. The north actually has laws which permit it more often, New Jersey especially, and the south has laws which forbid it.
I'm a Cape Coloured and thank God I was born in this body. My Great Grand Parents from my Grand Dads side were Javanese and Japanese and my Grand Moms parents were from Russian and the Caribbean. I don't know much about my Mom's side, but I heard there is Chinese and Native Khoisan; and somehow I look like I'm from Mexico 🤣
Well Mexicans are among the most ethnically diverse people outside of Africa(or African ancestry) in the world.
@@nitzan3782 Never knew! Thanks bruv, all the more incentive 🤭 to get past this A1 Spanish and find them Latina Mujeres
Mexicans are mixed race not one race.@@joKer7507
Brilliant! A real pick n mix 😀
Conclusion: You are certainly a true multi-culturalnin your own right 🤗🤗🤗
It would be interesting to see some actual statistics and not just opinion. While inbreeding might be more prevalent in some regions of the US (i.e. Utah and Kentucky) do to the concentration of a specific groups (i.e. Mormons and hillbillies), if you look at those area as a percentage of the 325,000,000 population of the US, it is tiny. You simply can't make the accusation of "inbred" regarding the entire population of the USA....it simply isn't true, can't be.
His list of most inbred states is very different than the one I found on the internet. My family is from Utah. We all have an app that tells us how we’re related. So what he’s stating about Utah just isn’t true.
I lived in Utah for years.....I'm not suggesting the are "flipper kids" running around everywhere; however, Mormons marry Mormons and due to the concentration there, it is inevitable. Lot of Smiths and Browns in the phone book....surely their is some common ancestry there. @@hannajones0106
@@hannajones0106 His list of countries is way off from what Google shows as well. The U.S. isn't even in the top 30 in the world. What he has done is just taken raw numbers instead of percentages (per capita), and since the U.S. has over 330 million people, it makes it look more prevalent than it is. Countries like Italy, Spain, Brazil and Japan all have higher rates (per capita) than the U.S.
Pakistan & Afghanistan is on top for sure
The USA: No American is surprised about Utah. There's not surprise about New Mexico, but we are not allowed to talk about that. We are allowed to talk about West Virginia, and we all sputtered a laugh when you highlighted it.
European royalty have been marrying close relatives for centuries, although I don't think many were first cousin marriages.
Charles the 5 of Spain is so îńbrēd hes ofteb given a nickname of "a fine specimen from Mississippi"
So did the Chinese royalty,ancient Egyptians,native Americans etc 😂😂😂
And have had the attendant genetic disorders. (Hapsburgs, The russian royals pre-1917)
Yes there were quite a few marriages of first cousins.
Charles was so inbred it would've been better if his parents had been siblings. @@franciscoacevedo3036
It must have been a much worse problem when people tended not to move beyond their home villages.
Peasants would make the effort to walk to the next village, common folk know the dangers of inbreeding from the long history of raising livestock.
Speaking of Yemen and the Middle East in general, My ex went to Afghanistan thrice and said he wouldnt be surprised if it was the most inbred, since they still live in tribes with no human rights for the kids or women, dad and involuntary daughter relations are Very common there. They don't police themselves and they wont allow the world to help manage them. They live in the Stone Age still.
I became aware of African and Middle Eastern country's lower intelligence scores when I saw a shocking world map of IQ scores. This video helps provide evidence as to why that is true. Thank you, Shy Historian.
A perfect opportunity to be racist 😂
@buhle8288 Racist has become the word we call others when we can't respond their arguments in a thoughtful manner.
@@BrewsterMcBrewster it’s actually due to no schools due to constant civil wars
Tell me you are racist without saying the word. Again Africa is a continent with 54 countries and the vast majority consider relative marriage a taboo an abomination. I suggest you read a book and stop displaying your below average education 😂😂😂
It is common only in predominantly Muslim and Arabic North Africa. NOT the entire continent. Inbreeding or incest of any kind is a HUGE TABOO among Africans and in African culture, It is an abomination, unheard of! and can result in severe (even FATAL!) consequences for those involved. Do proper research instead of relying on hearsay and rumor-mongering like any other wh!t.e tr.a$h with access to the internet
You missed out the Caribbean, where in some countries it's almost impossible for find a partner who isn't a first or second cousin.
Yep.
Keep moving on till you don’t have to sleep with your cousins sounds the normal thing to do 😂
my Caribbean friend wont date Caribbean women cos he not sure if they family
@@emteedee1891 that's if they are from the same island not different ones remember you have Spanish, English, Dutch, French and Creole speaking islands.
i know that but u assuming like im talking bout out there i mean here im our city so the island thing don't count @@lonalxaia
The US is NOT in the top 10. Not even close. It isn’t no. 1 in first-world countries. Canada, Spain, Portugal, and Italy are higher than the US. And please know, I am not very patriotic myself. As an Anglican priest I have even removed the American flag from any sanctuary where I pastored (not because it was offensive per se, but because no country can claim the church, and visitors can easily interpret the flag being front and center as worship of the US). I can tell you I was bleeding red, white, and blue after watching this video. Please reupload an amended video with more accurate representation.
As q Canadian I agree with you.I made a couple of comments in regards to our situation and reason for it,take a look sir.⚜️
Indeed I see that you did! Sorry, I usually don’t read most of the comments. Probably should, since I like for peoples’ great input stand on its own and not repeat it; just praise the one who made it, you know. :-)
Japan is higher, China is higher, Brazil is higher, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are definitely higher... methinks he wanted one "white" country in the list so he could safely say it was disgusting but homeboy didn't do his research - it is a 50% Hispanic state with the specific region he was taking about being about 80% Hispanic/ Latino.
No Western Country should be on this list.
Italy???
This question is something I never knew I needed an answer to.
The way I HOLLERED’T when they showed the chimera. 😂😂😭😭
When mentioning Palestine, the flag of the UAE was shown
right after the actual palestine flag
Israel vs Palestine: inbreeders vs inbreeders. Why am I not surprised?
As always it's not one cousin marriage that's the issue but doing it again and again like in Pakistan, if you check national IQ you'll find similarities in the countries that do this and a low I.Q. Lowered intelligence is one of the main results from inbreeding. But not warned against enough in these countries. It also seems, though only through reading stories that incestueus families lose that inhibition we all have to want to sleep with a relative. If they parents were inbred the children seem more likely to commit incest too. Even with eachother. Maybe it lessens the safeguards we have.
My family basically seemed to do the opposite and most often married people from a whole other continent. Mixed people also often look better.
_"you'll find similarities in the countries that do this and a low I.Q. "_
- Buuut... Ashkenazi Jews.
@@gsomethingsomething2658 They are pretty spread out and so you'd have to test them all. But you can also marry a jew after converting. So I'm not sure if the ashkenazi jews are 100% Ashkenazi.. Obviously it's enough to give people a high chance of complications from that genetics but are they 60% that? Or always a 100%? Is your grandfather also your spouses grandfather?
The strictest ones do not let the women get education. I think the most inbreeding must havetaken place in the past.
The Royal family the queen married her cousin in the uk 😂
2nd cousin but yes
Why do you have an Indian flag in your thumbnail when India is not even part of this list. Also, 9 out of the 11 countries you have mentioned are Islamic countries, that is the reason behind in breeding, it is part of that religion.
1:02 it may be legally allowed, but it's still frowned upon in society
In some societies.
With all the equality and Hate speech jargon in the Western world now, you probably are no longer allowed to even discuss such FACTS.
It is really disgusting 🤢
South Indians are still doing this at very large scale , But in north India marrying even in the bloodline of Father or Mother is considered sin and person is outcasted , I was shocked to know how much people in southern India is indulging in cousin marriage, mariage with uncles and aunts it is pathetic.
They don't do it on large scale dude. They had stopped now. It is Muslims who follow such practices in india
Lol bruh southern India only 20% people do cousin marriages that too only tamilnadu,telugu and kannada people.Kerala has less than 3% of consaguineous marriages.
Found this on Google: "...0.20 % of marriages in the United States are considered to be at the threshold of inbreeding." In your video, you tell a different story by focusing on states or certain pockets of inbreeding in the country. In fact, that one Google statistic I cited would seem to suggest that the country as a whole appears to be comprised of a lot of outbreeding, the opposite of your claim. Your video looks a little misleading to me.
Most of these countries live mentally in the 600s
I'm so glad I'm one of the lucky few Pakistanis who neither himself is married to a cousin, nor has parents or grandparents who are cousins. And trust me, my aunts tried their best. I just rejected them every single time.
You need to do a better job of providing sources for this data. I haven’t been able to locate this “CIDE” study you fleetingly reference in the video. A link in the description would be helpful. What empirical data is publicly available contradicts some of the findings of your purported stats. The US for instance has quite a low overall rate of consanguineous marriages. Beyond that the only reliable information would be genetic data compiled from multiple countries in the same study. Otherwise you run the not small risk of comparing incongruous data. Unless you make the basis for these ranking less opaque a great degree of skepticism is warranted.
Yes, it's just really odd that he lists the United States as number 10 when it has a very low rate of inbreeding. It reeks of the author having an agenda. If he would list sources, I wouldn't have an issue with this video.
My guess is that he's just pulling raw numbers and not per capita. Even then, the U.S. is not even in the top 30 nations.
4:30 Why do you show the flag of the U.A.E. instead of the Palestinian one?
I personally know three *Yemeni women* and two *Palestinian women* who are *all married to men from outside ethnic and racial backgrounds* (French-Canadian, Malian, Russian, and Ukrainian), so they've certainly done at least their own part in not inbreeding.
i thought they were only allowed to married within their religion?
@@cambodianpleasuresquad1753: *That doesn't mean they all listen.* Are you Cambodian? I'm Vietnamese, and *quite a number of Middle Eastern and North African women like us Asian guys.* I'm currently dating an Algerian woman, and my first girlfriend was also an Algerian, and I later dated two Moroccans, and one of the Yemeni women I mentioned above. I am friends with a married couple with a teenage son, where the husband is Japanese and the wife is Moroccan. I also know another Moroccan woman whose boyfriend is Laotian.
@@Suite_annamite do you happen to be from france or quebec by any chance? many south east asian guys date out in those places.
@@cambodianpleasuresquad1753: Yes! I'm from Québec, and my uncles married my French-Canadian aunts! My famale cousins are also French Canadians. Indeed, you are right: over here, many Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Chinese men are with women from other racial backgrounds! *And even more so in France, where it looks like the majority of them!*
@@cambodianpleasuresquad1753: i forgot to mention, I know a 30-something-year-old woman who's dad is a Teochow Cambodian, and whose mom is Moroccan. And yes, they are from Québec too.
I'm 20% Ashkenazi Jewish from my mother, and we know that genetic bottleneck.
My paternal grandparents were first cousins. They were born in the late 1800's to Scot/Irish immigrants who settled in the late 1770s in the panhandle of Florida. More than likely, given the decades spent with an extended family of the many brothers who bought a good amount of farmland. I imagine there were more cousin marriages over the years of isolation. One of my elders said, "There weren't other people around to marry". We have our own graveyard in Century, Florida.
1. How just 20% ashkenazi, that doesn't make sense...
2. Yeah, it's well known. However, the video stated Israel is the most inbred for that reason alone, while more than 25% of Israeli jews are considered of mixed hertiage (having an ashkenazi and a non-ashkenazi parent) primarily due to that reason, myself included...
Because my mother has grand parents that are also not Jewish the actual genes 18.7% her mothers mother was Jewish Marie's to a Christian carpathian Her fathers mother Jewish married to an English man
@@venessamaxwell8105 That still doesn't make sense. This makes your mother 25% jewish. (if I understood correctly, both her parents are half jewish). So you are either 12.5% (⅛) if your father was Xtian, 62.5% (⅝) if he was fully jewish, or some other number of full eights in between...
I'll confirm with 23&me
There are many Middle Eastern countries that aren't on the list because they don't classify cousin marriage as inbreeding and don't report the statistics.
The truth comes out when looking at birth defect rates. I'm sure some corrupt countries hide that statistic to hide how damaging cousin marriages are but from what has been released it's obvious where inbreeding happens. Just google birth defect rate world map. For countries where incest is not cultural, countries with small populations have slightly higher than those with big populations (which shows how small populations have genetic stagnancy, not a lot of genetic diversity so even if cousin marriages are avoided eventually inbreeding happens). For countries where incest is cultural you see birth defects at high rates even in large populations.
you talk about Palestine, and show the flag of UAE... not ery reliable video. Your explanation for inbreeding among aras and muslim, grossly miss the real reason. It is not because they are isoltaed, given the vast number of muslims in the world, they could find mates out of their families. The real reason is they see blood relationship as most important, thus prefer marriage within their families.
I'm not from a country but I'm puerto rican. I have 180,000 dna matches. The island is 90 miles by 100 miles long. Lots of endogamy.
4:19 "... forcing Jewish peoples to marry from the select minority."
I doubt they would have married from other religious groups even if it had been legal to do so. Religious groups tend to be very strict about not marrying outside your tribe.
It was forbidden in most European countries.
@@carolagab I know. The video said so. But the point of my comment was that even _if_ it had been legal, it would not have made Jews less inbred, because they would still have voluntarily married just other Jews, because of religious tribalism.
@@carolagab It was also forbidden by the Jewish community itself (esp. Ashkenazi). The stereotype of the jewish grandmother who clucks disapprovingly at her grandson or -daughter dating a goy is a stereotype for a very valid and historically consistent reason.