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bhelliom
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response 175 of 186:
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Jun 17 16:35 UTC 2002 |
Marriage of cousins was probably acceptable in most societies at one
point or another. In pre-Republican China, the main criteria for
determining marriage eligibility for a given couple was whether or not
their last names were the same, to make the explanation simple. It'a a
tad bit more complicated than that.
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sarkhel
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response 176 of 186:
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Jun 17 20:12 UTC 2002 |
Marraige of cousines was never acceptable in Aryan (Indian) society.Still it
is not permitted in most part of India's hindu society.
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mynxcat
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response 177 of 186:
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Jun 18 14:35 UTC 2002 |
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jmsaul
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response 178 of 186:
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Jun 18 14:42 UTC 2002 |
So since you're Indian (ref. Item 112), what's your take on Sarkhel? Is he
an extreme Hindu nationalist BJP kind of guy, or average?
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bhelliom
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response 179 of 186:
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Jun 18 14:45 UTC 2002 |
BJP?
I did in fact say "MOST societies" . . .
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jmsaul
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response 180 of 186:
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Jun 18 14:50 UTC 2002 |
BJP is the Bharatiya Janata Party, a Hindu Nationalist political party. I'm
calling them extreme, but it's worth remembering that they're basically
running India right now -- the Prime Minister, Vajpayee, is the head of the
BJP.
http://www.bjp.org/
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mynxcat
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response 181 of 186:
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Jun 18 16:05 UTC 2002 |
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jmsaul
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response 182 of 186:
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Jun 18 16:47 UTC 2002 |
It might also be because of some of the state BJP organizations. The stuff
I've read about the massacres of Moslems in Gujarat makes it sound like the
local BJP there is pretty extreme.
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mynxcat
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response 183 of 186:
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Jun 18 17:19 UTC 2002 |
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jmsaul
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response 184 of 186:
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Jun 19 03:00 UTC 2002 |
I know that both things happen. There was a difference of scale in the
Gujarat incidents, though. There have also been allegations that the police
stood by and let it happen, saying that they didn't have orders to interfere.
If I remember correctly, the local BJP guy (Modi? I think?) has been accused
of tacitly encouraging the massacre at least, but hasn't been more directly
linked than that.
Of course, stuff from the US gets reported pretty oddly outside it, so who
the heck knows...
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i
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response 185 of 186:
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Jun 24 01:36 UTC 2002 |
I recall NPR doing a piece on some supposedly heavy-duty research study
on H/I violence in various Indian cities looking for causes, predictive
signs, co-factors, etc. After boatloads of study & statistical analysis,
they found that almost all of the problem were caused or prevented by the
strategies & tactics of each city's political leaders re: H/I relations.
I seem to recall that the same was true for white-on-black violence in
the American South during the 60's.
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aruba
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response 186 of 186:
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Jun 24 16:24 UTC 2002 |
Right, polygon reported that on Grex a while back.
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