Do you understand that America has less than 5% of the world's population, and that it is relatively backwards in many things? The fact that this happens in America does not mean that it is permitted elsewhere. Apart from the Middle East, it's not law in any first world country.
Nor is the fact that one can do something evidence that everyone in the entire USA is doing it.
QUOTE; “An estimated 0.2 percent of marriages in the United States are between individuals who are second cousins or closer — that means there are about 250,000 people in America in those relationships.” These are older statistics, but there are some experts who think that the numbers might be rising in the near future.
You cannot go around tarring everybody with the same brush. One swallow does not a summer make. You need international research that applies to all countries and to all cultures, and that needs to be peer reviews.
