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by haihaibye 2225 days ago
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002202211244385...

They have 50% cousin marriage, which predicts high levels of clannishness and low support of democracy.

It looks like if you want to bring democracy to the middle east, you first have to stop cousin marriage then try again in a few generations time.

This would also reduce genetic disease and raise IQ. There are no charities or programs to pick this low hanging fruit as it's very un-PC to talk about this.