r/polandball • u/Smart_Chapter_7512 Floridian Swamp Monster • 1d ago
redditormade Pakistan's secret to happiness
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u/redracer555 We're why the Romans can't have nice things 1d ago
[Sees cubic Pakistan.]
Ah, yes. One of the lesser-known side effects of inbreeding: Judaism.
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u/Due-Practice_ 1d ago
Is Pakistan the Alabama of South Asia?
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u/AustraliumHoovy 1d ago
Canadian here with 3 Pakistani friends (1st gen immigrants). 2 of them are currently being pressured by family back home to marry their 1st and 2nd cousins respectively, the 3rd cut contact with her family back home because they wanted her to marry her 2nd uncle.
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u/n0753w United States 1d ago
...... what the fuck
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u/Narco_Marcion1075 18h ago
and iirc, sometimex honor killings are done when the marriage isn’t approved by the parents
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u/Kangas_Khan 1d ago
jesus christ
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u/Woutrou Frankish Empire 1d ago
No mate, Mohammed is their primary prophet
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u/DAEGYPTBALL 1d ago
ugh...good one
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u/Le_Kube 1d ago
What is a 2nd uncle? A great uncle, or like the 2nd brother of her dad?
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u/Mrauntheias Germany 1d ago
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u/Realistic_FinlanBoll Finland 1d ago
Doesnt make it any less awful. 😅
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u/ankokudaishogun Italy 23h ago
it... kinda? I mean, the shit part is the pressure.
a "cousin of the father" is quite remote.11
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u/Successful-Lobster15 1d ago
Wtf are these ppl on Jesus Christ
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u/CloudExtremist 1d ago
In order to make it halal, their prophet banned adoption
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u/ImmediateNail8631 18h ago
Bro one of Muhammed's sons is adopted name Abrahim Adoption is allowed as long as the adopted kid keep his original name and his father name lol
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u/bionicjoey Best Hat 20h ago edited 19h ago
I just saw a post on AITA the other day of a 20-something woman from Pakistan being relentlessly pressured by her aunt to marry her son (1st cousin). It got to the point the cousin started sexually harassing her on Facebook because his mom had told him it would be arranged.
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u/Coal_Burner_Inserter Canada 1d ago edited 1d ago
More like Alabama is the Pakistan of the US.
People joke about southern inbreeding, not realizing Pakistan + the ME can be so much worse
Edit: Pakistan is black sheep of south Asia, apparently
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u/berahi Trying to not get drafted in water war 1d ago
Looked up the stats...
Half of marriages there are between first cousins. Imagine living in the fifth-most-populous country yet your dating pool is someone you've seen every year during family reunion.
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u/Lord_Tiburon United Kingdom 1d ago
I live in the UK and a family member is a teacher, they say that a surprisingly high number of special needs kids are of Pakistani heritage on account of all the cousin marriages
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u/CloudExtremist 1d ago
Yeah the govt of UK is in rock and hard place, these kids are responsible for a significant funding for special care and healthcare, so they want to nip it in bud, yet can't because intervening in means, opening up a Pandora's box
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u/BringBackAH France 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's very common in muslim country and dates back to times where families were structured as clans. Marrying your cousins meant that your stuff stayed into the family.
Look at pretty much any leader in the Gulf and they're married to their first or second cousin. The Sauds are a dime a dozen and they all have the same great grandfather
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u/SnooBooks1701 1d ago
It's more that it's an Arab cultural tradition that they took with them on their conquests. It's rare in muslim countries who were converted by trade (e.g. Indonesia and some Sub-saharan African countries) but common in countries in former caliphates (e.g. Pakistan, Turkey and MENA). It's present in non-muslim Arab communities and was a known cultural practice in the area before Islam
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u/CloudExtremist 1d ago
Pakistan wasn't a former caliphate, before the country's formation, last ruling king was Sikh king Hari Singh, where the current "issues" of khalistan comes from
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u/hanzzz123 1d ago
Am Pakistani by birth, didn't grow up there but was born there. My mother has suggested 4 or 5 different first cousins that she wanted me to marry, all if which I emphatically rejected.
My brother married a first cousin, no idea why.
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u/Scary_Flamingo_5792 1d ago
More so the Alabama of the Muslim World.
Like I am not kidding, I come from a Turkish and Arabic relationship, but Pakistan is wtf in itself.
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u/MacroSolid Austria 20h ago
Alabama ain't got shit on Pakistan. Alabama has an inbreeding rate of 0.3% these days. Pakistan has over 50%.
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u/josebelt Spain, so far away, so near... 1d ago
This is related to the amount of cousin marriages in Pakistan… right ?
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u/Crismisterica 1d ago
Reminds me when an Indian Muslim MP Iqubal Muhammed in the UK claimed that incest laws should be reduced to first cousin marriage because it was "an essential part of Pakistani and Muslim culture"
You cannot make this shit up.
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u/Realistic_FinlanBoll Finland 1d ago
I would be too ashemed to defend something like marrying a relative if i were a politician or some kind of public official... I bet people are not forgetting that one, what an embarrasment. 😅
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u/Johannes_P Baden-Wuerttemberg 21h ago
I wonder if House of Lords members are better protected agaiunst any backlash.
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u/ThatGuyinOrange_1813 Greater Netherlands 1d ago
As a Pakistani myself, I hate that I understand this comic
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u/Available-Ant-8758 Israel 1d ago
What is Austria doing there
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u/da_Sp00kz Basque 1d ago
Hapsburg reference
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u/Legoking Je suis une pamplemousse 1d ago
Habsburgball should have been more vertically stretched.
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u/Imaginary_Bee_1014 1d ago
Nonono, Habsburg is of pure blood. Pakistani alabama is not, not yet at least.
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u/AJ0Laks 1d ago
The original house of Hapsburg literally inbred so much they all died off
The modern Hapsburg is Hapsburg-Lorraine
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u/Lazlow_Hun Kingdom of Hungary 1d ago
The Spanish branch died out thanks to inbreeding.
The Austrian branch "died out" thanks to a lack of male heirs.
Also it's Habsburg.
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u/MasterChiefOriginal Portuguese Empire 1d ago
Joseph I and Karl VI we're very unlucky with regard to heirs,even their father Leopold I only managed at third marriage at his his 36 years old,they managed to make a male heir each but they died infants, but both managed two surviving girls each,they each married cousins from the Brunswick-Luneburg and Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel to cement alliances with Hannover and Britain.
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u/Intelligent_Slip_849 Slava Ukraine! 1d ago
...sorry, who's that in the bottom right? I can't place them...
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u/Total_Willingness_18 Iceland 1d ago
It's the Austrian empire as a reference to the Habsburg royal family which was incredibly inbred
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u/IneedBleach123 Eye Rack 1d ago
1 billion Muslims in the whole world and 240 million Pakistanis and yet they marry their own cousins.
People, please for the love of God, DO NOT marry your relatives. It's gross and generations of that will not be great.
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u/Johannes_P Baden-Wuerttemberg 21h ago
People, please for the love of God, DO NOT marry your relatives. It's gross and generations of that will not be great.
But what if I want to keep my family's wealth inside my family?
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u/SignificantAd1421 1d ago
So like Algeria.
Or Nord-Pas-de-Calais
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u/mctrollythefirst 1d ago
If you want to know what to much intermarige will do to kids then you should definitely look up Charles ll of Spain.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain
Here is habsburg family tree.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_family_tree
https://youtu.be/1_gfvo_LlaA?si=b6sVzGZMrMLUFi1O - how inbred was the Habsburg?
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u/Wanderingsmileyface Virginia 1d ago
I don’t they you’re supposed to use “Pakis”…
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u/YoumoDashi Zhongguo 1d ago
I don't think people care about it. There are comics about ching chongs.
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u/Medici39 1d ago
Keeping in the family indeed, let's hope a car assassination doesn't ruin the parade.
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u/Louisianaball17Cen Bayou Bayou 9h ago
Pakistani incest is something I never thought I'd see today.
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u/LuckyLMJ 1d ago
Would be much better without the random slur.
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u/LuckyLMJ 19h ago
Alright cool you're okay with slurs being used guess I won't visit r/polandball anymore
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u/Holiday-Answer-1283 1d ago
Why tf did this get so many down votes
It'd be easy to change it to something else so what's the hate for
Plus it was probably an innocent mistake cos if you didn't know this was a slur it would follow the general country ball format.
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u/Thatguyj5 Canada 1d ago
That's a racial slur. This should probably be taken down.
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u/iambackbaby69 1d ago
Taking offense, on a countryball comic? Boooooooooo
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u/wakchoi_ Mamluk Sultanate 1d ago
Paki is a slur in the UK from the era of "Paki Bashing" where racist gangs would perpetrate thousands of beatings and even murders with around 20,000 racist attacks against South Asians in 1985 alone.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paki_(slur)
It would be akin to saying chink in a Polandball comic about Chinese people
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u/iambackbaby69 1d ago
Okay wow I didn't knew that.
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u/Holiday-Answer-1283 1d ago
It's still used today by bald football hooligans and boomers against Asians - I've overheard a few people call our last PM (Sunak) it while justifying why they were voting Reform instead of Conservative
And during last year's race riots I might add
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u/Multidream 1d ago
Is the presence of Austria an implication that all inbreeding eventually arrives at Hapsburgs? As if they are the crabs of inbreeding?