Your traditions, which worked for hundreds of years, and are still upheld by a majority of the population, are now fringe, extremist, and dangerous as of five minutes ago.
Admittedly, we don’t know that much about ancient cultural practices around marriage outside “the Old World”, but in “the Old World”, at least, that was the effective default at least as far back as Ancient Greece (and probably Egypt), lol…
Your traditions, which worked for hundreds of years, and are still upheld by a majority of the population, are now fringe, extremist, and dangerous as of five minutes ago.
*thousands.
Admittedly, we don’t know that much about ancient cultural practices around marriage outside “the Old World”, but in “the Old World”, at least, that was the effective default at least as far back as Ancient Greece (and probably Egypt), lol…