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Originally Posted by TheChosenOne
Have you been to Iraq? For example, the region I'm in, the Babil province, it is mainly rural with the exception of a few larger cities. It has been common practice for first cousins to marry each other for over a millienium. Since we have came, rid Iraq of a brutal dictatorship and brought with us our ways of life, things have changed. This tradition is slowing changing and women are finally getting the chance to say "NO" to marrying someone they were betrothed to at birth. Go to Baghdad and you'll see muslims that dress just like any westerner. The culuture of the west is far reaching and penetrates the most remote areas as with the areas, like the middle east, that resist it. In the end, our culture has more projection then any hard power we can throw at someone. For the life of me I can't find the picture on the website I'm lookin on right now but I know it's there. It's another example. It's a picture of a Army Soldier with two Iraqi IA's and they are all flippin' off the camera. The Iraqi's, especially the younger generations, since they are more impressionable, pick up on our values and culture like they eat candy.
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I can tell u easilly that American culture influence was there before OIF and the fall of Saddam. I dont even know why are u relating them together sense Saddam was secular and he had as part of his collection the movies like Scareface, Godfather etc, etc. and considering the way his sons dressed, what you have said IMO is wrong. As far as inter-marrying cousins, that practice as you said has always been there, however I do believe that existed on smaller communities that kept to themselves, rather then cities.
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