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Postby Firegirl » Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:26 pm

it was a close knit community that only would have children with each other, even after immigrating to North/South America.
We have a word for that in English, but I'm sure there are many words used to describe it in Canada. Although, I was under the impression that Quebec was where most of the inbreeding occured.
Wow I thought that was only in small back woods communities and maybe a few towns.
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Postby hive_king » Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:32 pm

Marysville and Yuba City?
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Postby Firegirl » Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:50 pm

Oh, yes probably on the list.
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Postby Rei » Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:30 am

They often form their own towns or communities within a town. For example, in the town where I grew up, there is a Holdeman community. I think there may be a few more in the area, as well, but I'm only familiar with the one. My mum grew up in Steinbach, which is a less strict society, but still distinctly Mennonite (I believe the MCC headquarters of Canada are there, although I'm not fully certain). Hutterites also live in closed communities, from what I recall. So generally the more extreme it is, the more likely the group is to be in a smaller community, even if it is in or near a city or town.

On a semi-related note, the topic of Menno culture reminds me of a joke I've heard.

Never take a Mennonite fishing, because he'll drink all your beer. But it's okay to take two, because they won't touch a drop.
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Postby AnthonyByakko » Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:56 am

Never take a Mennonite fishing, because he'll drink all your beer. But it's okay to take two, because they won't touch a drop.
I lol'ed.

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Postby Firegirl » Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:56 pm

You're back, sort of.
do you have a different screen name for each day of the week, AB?
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Postby Qing_Jao » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:16 pm

I heard that same joke about a different type of religious person, but I grew up in S. Idaho. You figure it out.
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Postby Sibyl » Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:37 pm

it was a close knit community that only would have children with each other, even after immigrating to North/South America.
We have a word for that in English, but I'm sure there are many words used to describe it in Canada. Although, I was under the impression that Quebec was where most of the inbreeding occured.
That's not about "inbreeding", it's about an endogamous grouping.

Inbreeding is reproduction with siblings, parents, or (not always: fringe area) close cousins. Usually in the US and probably Canada there's no marriage involved in the breeding, since civil laws prohibit marriage between such close relatives. This may produce a higher percentage of defective children, since damaged genes are often recessive, and the children have a higher chance of getting two copies of a damaged gene if the parents are closely related. But most children produced will be all right, and frequently children who have two copies will be so badly damaged in genotype as to die in infancy.

Endogamy is about (socially necessarily) marrying within the group, which may be so large as not to involve closely related individuals, who are still prohibited from marrying (or sex). There are a _lot_ of Mennonites around.
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Postby Sibyl » Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:42 pm

lucky charms... like the japanese ones?
Anyway, they are clearly elements of a different religion/s, so they really have no place in the room of a christian believer (unless they go heterodox).
"Lucky Charms" in this sense is the name, trademarked, of a presweetened cold cereal, that is molded in the shapes of four-leaf-clovers, horseshoes, etc.

"They're Magically delicious"

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Postby Sibyl » Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:45 pm

ah, ok. we don't have many mennonites around here, so i didn't know much abut that.
Think Amish with automobiles and telephones. Amish are better known in the US mainstream, though we have plenty of Mennonites here too. They're related.
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Postby eriador » Sun Apr 01, 2007 5:51 pm

I thought you said they practiced endogamy ;)

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Postby Eaquae Legit » Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:05 pm

Denominationally. Both are offshoots from the anabaptist reformers.
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Postby eriador » Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:21 pm

Gotta love those anabaptists.


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