<p>Looks aren’t always everything! Beauty can be from the inside and out!</p>
<p>I really don’t think people are as shallow as most think.</p>
<p>In terms of just getting with people, yes perhaps.</p>
<p>But in terms of a long-term relationship, I honestly don’t think so (except if one is truly repulsed).</p>
<p>I guess…but for me 50% is looks, and 50% is personality. I’m not even going to lie. I mean I have a cousin sister who I LOVE. She’s so amazing in personality and understands me. But I just don’t find her attractive. I had to explain it all when she asked me out…</p>
<p>At the same time, even if by a stroke of super-outlandish chance Kim Kardashian offers to marry me, I would decline instantly. I’m not sure if her personality and lifestyle is my cup of tea…or coffee…I forget how the exact saying goes.</p>
<p>^ Cousin sister? o.O</p>
<p>Looks do have to be a part of it, but long-term relationships should be about 25% looks, 75% personality. Roughly.</p>
<p>^Hahaha exactly what I was thinking O.o</p>
<p>I think the percentages for girls/guys are different tbh. Guys do center more on looks. Just the way it is.</p>
<p>^ Probably. But I think that guys who focus more on looks are less likely to be in for long-term relationships.</p>
<p>Yeah haha, cousin sister. She’s off by two generations, so its fine. Like her dad is my mom’s first cousin. And besides, thats how my family operates.
We intermarry within our huge-ass clan. My mom and dad are technically cousins by four gen. They have common great-great-great grandparents. </p>
<p>I’m probably going to be the first to break the tradition and marry with an open mind and give every woman a chance :]</p>
<p>^ That makes you guys second cousins once removed. That is way too close to be any kind of normal.</p>
<p>^ lol i have distant relatives that get married to their first cousins…but they’re arabs though…usually they’re from the same clan/tribe…but more likely to be 2nd, third cousins…</p>
<p>“That makes you guys second cousins once removed. That is way too close to be any kind of normal.”</p>
<p>It’s more common than you think.</p>
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<p>Actually just plain 2nd cousins. And normal or not, it’s ****in weird</p>
<p>^ Ah, whoops you’re right. The mom/dad’s cousin would be first cousin once removed. I had it backwards. My apologies.</p>
<p>Second cousins don’t share much blood relation anyway, so there’s not a problem with them marrying.</p>
<p>^ Physically, it may not be a problem.
Culturally, it’s weird.</p>
<p>I agree it’s weird. But that got me thinking what is the distance of family relation needed so that it is not weird anymore?</p>
<p>I think that if you meet through the family, it’s weird. just my opinion. On accident (as in you don’t know you’re family or don’t meet at a family reunion of some sort) then I would say sharing great-great grandparents is where I would draw the line. <em>Shrug</em></p>
<p>^ I agree with the meeting through the family being officially weird in all cases (even if not blood related like step-family), but I think sharing great-great-grandparents would be acceptable. As not that many people can trace their lineage back much farther than that.</p>
<p>Sharing Great-grandperents is a no-no though.</p>
<p>^ Yeah, that’s what I meant. I realize now my wording is a little weird. Great-great grandparents is where it’s Ok. That’s the line that you have to cross lol.</p>
<p>^ OK. Glad to see that we agree on something!</p>