https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/scandinavia-has-got-the-message-on-cousin-marriage-we-must-ban-it-too-j8chb0zch

You see, recent immigration from regions dominated by tribes imported their marriage practices, too. This wouldn’t have mattered if the numbers had been moderate. My dad came to the UK from Pakistan and met my mum — and their marriage fostered a wonderful union. Dad had found a fabulous wife but also a social bridge into his adopted home, and he came to love this nation more than any other on earth. But as numbers rose, western nations presided over the emergence of segregated communities within the nation state. In them, patriarchs wield power, marriages are often arranged (or forced), postal votes are centrally determined and tribal animosities are imported. Nash has written of communities “concentrated in small geographical areas where there is little need or opportunity to have much to do with wider society”. The appalling crime wave in Sweden (a nation that took a particularly permissive approach to immigration) is, I believe, due to some of its clans morphing — as in Sicily during the 19th century — into crime syndicates. Tribalism is an efficient social organisation for criminality: intense loyalty, clear differentiation from outsiders and little truck with rules given by an external authority. Soaring gun violence has boosted the far right, which shows how dangerously complacent “liberals” have been.

https://archive.ph/3XbD1 

 Huh: 

The West’s rise can be understood through this lens, as noted by the great anthropologist Sir Jack Goody — a rise sparked by the Catholic church’s ban on cousin marriage. This was introduced in the early Middle Ages, with the ban extending up to sixth cousins by the 11th century. This forced people in England — Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings etc — to marry outside their tribes and thereby dissolved these sectarian affiliations, paving the way for a post-tribal unity. We were the first mongrel nation. 

 Know your enemy, part 2.

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