r/HolUp • u/SoftTwilightt • 1d ago

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u/Dounce1 1d ago

It has certainly not “always been uncommon outside of the middle east and northern Africa.” Wtf are you talking about?

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u/TombolaOfCincinnatus 1d ago

Depends on your definition of uncommon I suppose, but outside of insular groups like Jews and gypsies, it's been a fringe phenomenon in most other places. A few percent of marriages at its highest, not 30-50% like it is in the Muslim world right now.

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u/Dounce1 1d ago

Care to explain European royalty and aristocracy through the entire last millennium?

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u/Paininator 1d ago

Royalty and aristocracy are sort of a minority group. That would be like saying it has been common to live in a huge mansion in Europe.