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About marriage between cousins: Historically, the christian church has forbidden marriage between even very distant cousins. Intended or not, this has dismantled the power of large family clans.
Over centuries this has a clear effect on psychology: more individualism, a higher willingness to trust strangers (cooperation between non-relatives) and more. Joseph Henrich (anthropologist) has a whole book about this called The WEIRDest People in the World .
When I got US Citizenship, my mom joked about that I should "marry my cousin¹ in China so she could get a green card" (this was like 2016)
¹she meant like her sister's daughter
I was like:
WTF mom, that's disgusting, pretty sure marrying a cousin is a crime. (well it is in the us)
Also, it's marriage immigration fraud.
wtf is that "joke" lmfao, does she want me ending up in prison or something?
Only in most of the US. Some states are very libertine about first cousin marriage
This isn't an "um actually," simply a weird american thing that I've experienced but, marriage to your first cousin is not illegal here. Prolly should be, and you aren't wrong about it being immigration fraud but still, if it was a real marriage, there wouldn't be anything illegal about it.
you've what now?
Lol, I guess a phrased that strangely. I'm not married to my cousin, but I have definitely been around some people who did.
Yeah, pretty sure we even had a President or two who married their first cousin. One of the Roosevelts, maybe?
Edit: not FDR (his wife was a much more distant cousin), but John Quincy Adams is an example.
It's actually illegal in most states.
Good. Shame on you Texas.