Marrying your cousins???

by **MissLT** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:00 pm

I've watched TVB movies since I was a little kid, and I have been a loyal fan of it through bad and good times. Well, good time is when Hong Kong movies dominated the Asian movie industry, and bad time is when Korean movies are the hot topics of married women :cry:

. There is one thing about Hong Kong movies that is quite not clear to me. Well, it's about one cousin gets married to another. I've asked my Chinese friends. They told me it's not true because it's gross. It is, indeed. However, if it's gross to Chinese people's opinion, then why those producers keep showing it as like a part of Chinese culture. Isn't it a confusing and misleading for the movie-watchers? I, myself, once thought it was okay for Chinese people to marry their cousins........

by **Dixie** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:57 pm

That happened a lot in Europe in the past. It was totally normal to marry your cousins. Look at Sissi for instance :roll:

She married her cousin Franz, who was the son of her mother's sister :roll:

I mean it was so normal just a few centuries ago. I think it's also normal nowadays in gipsy cultures.

by **MissLT** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:02 pm

Dixie wrote:That happened a lot in Europe in the past. It was totally normal to marry your cousins. Look at Sissi for instance She married her cousin Franz, who was the son of her mother's sister I mean it was so normal just a few centuries ago. I think it's also normal nowadays in gipsy cultures.

But... but... but... they're your cousins... Isn't it like incest?

by **Dixie** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:12 pm

LennyeTran wrote: But... but... but... they're your cousins... Isn't it like incest?

Indeed! But it was a tradition in Europe not many centuries ago :roll:

I find it gross, too. Can't imagine myself with one of my cousins. Ewww.

by **MissLT** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:18 pm

Dixie wrote:Indeed! But it was a tradition in Europe not many centuries ago I find it gross, too. Can't imagine myself with one of my cousins. Ewww.

I wonder people who attracts to their cousins are in the same group of people like Sigmund Freud who was known to have sexual feelings for his mother. Eww eww eww ewww...

by **Dixie** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:20 pm

LennyeTran wrote:I wonder people who attracts to their cousins are in the same group of people like Sigmund Freud who was known to have sexual feelings for his mother. Eww eww eww ewww...

Ew that's even worse :lol:

by **MissLT** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:24 pm

Dixie wrote:
Ew that's even worse

He's a psycho to me. Too psycho...Look at this,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1freudsex.jpg

(I'm hotlinking it, I think, but there are words on the page so it should be okay, right?)

by **Dixie** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:27 pm

LennyeTran wrote:He's a psycho to me. Too psycho...Look at this,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1freudsex.jpg

(I'm hotlinking it, I think, but there are words on the page so it should be okay, right?)

Haha that picture appeared on my Psychology book in high school. It's interesting, isn't it?

by **mikexiao** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:44 am

I can not explore this link.Maybe the site is forbidden by some group.Why don't you show the picture directly?

by **MissLT** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:03 am

Dixie wrote:
Haha that picture appeared on my Psychology book in high school. It's interesting, isn't it?

Psychology in high school? We don't learn it until we start college here. Anyway, what did your textbook say about this picture?

Marrying your cousins???

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