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Marry her cousin???

posted 9 years ago by tlm557
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Did people do that during that century???

That is disgusting... even if he wasn't her cousin, he's a disgusting freak anyway.

[–] venanttout 9 years ago

At that period of time, even without a zombie problem, you would have probably married a distant relative.

Marrying a cousin was very, very frequent.

[–] wildj7 8 years ago

I am 44 min into the movie.

That cousins Parson Collins guy is annoying and ugly and rude (when he barged in on Mr. Wickham and Liz's conversation at the ball).

I also don't want to come to any harsh conclusions before watching the rest of the movie but I think he is kind of gay too!

[–] Julie-30 8 years ago

Mr. Collins is played by Matt Smith, who is very well-known as the 11th Doctor Who. The minute I heard that he was going to be in this movie I knew I was going to see it. I think he's brilliant in this.

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[–] teatat 8 years ago

I think he's brilliant in this.

I agree - he's my favorite Mr. Collins since the 1980.

[–] maijuutuub 8 years ago

Finding that disgusting is 100 % cultural. The only natural, biological aversion that has roots in behavioral instincts is to people one grows up with from the early childhood. Usually they are siblings, but even then it has nothing to do with actual genetic relatedness. The same thing happens to little kids growing up together in kibbutzes, even though they have never been culturally regarded as relations. They never marry each other, although it would not be a cultural taboo if they did.

[–] gswan 8 years ago

Egyptian pharoahs used to sire children in their sisters, and half-sisters.

Several people here have asserted that the British aristocracy were in-bred. Were they? I read that the British peerage, and the higher landed gentry, during the period of Jane Austen, numbered around 10,000 individuals.

10,000 individuals, evenly spread, I would have thought was plenty to prevent in-breeding.