#and the village folk stigma had already gone away the whole 'we stay here we stay together we are better than anyone bcs they are envious | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

swallowtail-ageha · 2 months ago

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Thing about small italian villages is that the didnt really have roads up until the 70's which of course leads to a massive amount of cousin marriage and inbreeding and while yes my particular own has its issues regarding that (3 major families (one of whom i am part of!!! Yay!!!) that all of the other families are related to, everyone there has bone/joint problems or some sort of schizofrenia) the neighboring one is worse as in they have one major family and the rest of the inhabitants are ppl who immigrated to have a quiet life in the mountain slopes and that by itself could be an extremely interesting study bcs everyone there kinda looks the same-ish and has a frankly insane amount of people with developmental disabilities for a population this small

#ok now that i have typed it out i realized it sounds mean and i want to earnestly say that i am not mocking them i just suck at tone #i do not think its something to be laughed at i just think the whole thing is uh. i wouldnt say tragic but really no one's fault #bcs again. if you live in the mountains where the main city is hard to reach bcs of poor road conditions #which leads to isolation and also extreme stigma against the village folk *of course* the village #will become more secluded and incestuous marriages will happen (aside from the obv economical factor #that a pre industrial reality would entrail)#its just. fascinating on a sociological and genetical level. esp since by when the roads were functional #and the village folk stigma had already gone away the whole 'we stay here we stay together we are better than anyone bcs they are envious #of us and we will continue inbreeding and any kids with severe disabilities born from it are actually Blessed because they are born from us #has already taken so much root it is now unlikely to be eradicated . the nature of italian villages is that every once in a while #someone reinvents blood purity and eugenetics lmao #anyways this whole incest thing is also the reason why i get frustrated about those books that have #the main characters go into small bigoted villages and either finding peace there or be horrified by its conservatives ideas #while never digging on the *why*. like yeah all this 'what happens in the village stays in the village and everyone else is an enemy'#but they never dig into why that mentality was born to begin with and how incest there #actively helps this mentality to continue on like you legit still have grandmas telling you to marry ur cousin #anw. i dont know what i was going for w this rant. it originated from knowing that my aunt turned local saint #was actually schizophrenic and was prone to paranoid attacks and mental breakdowns similar to mine #fun stuff!

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