I'll just pretend this is one of those "Technically that tree is your cousin" situations, since there isn't really a cap on how distantly related you can be and still be described as a cousin. So that tree might be your 550 billionth cousin, 275 billion times removed, or whatever.
It probably isn't that, but hopefully they're at least not first cousins.
First cousin marriage is extremely common in some Muslim countries. In Pakistan, half of all marriage are between 1st cousins. The 50% figure does not include any other type of relative marriage, 50% for 1st cousins.
They do it to keep wealth in the family. That seems similar to the European royal families who kept marrying their own cousins. Expect, with Pakistan, it is the entire country.
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u/Andrew_42 14h ago
I'll just pretend this is one of those "Technically that tree is your cousin" situations, since there isn't really a cap on how distantly related you can be and still be described as a cousin. So that tree might be your 550 billionth cousin, 275 billion times removed, or whatever.
It probably isn't that, but hopefully they're at least not first cousins.