I like how you people come up with all sort of "culture" ideology illustrations to counter your lack of proof to back up why marrying your own "CLAN" is morally wrong? I've read and heard the same arguments all the time....MOST are nothing but gibberish at best.
Then why do you follow the ideology of not marrying your sister's kids? You don't because it's embarrassing right? And it's socially unacceptable.
Until you have something "NEW" to convince me otherwise, you people are simply NOT thinking in the big scheme of things. We no longer live in a world run by "fairy tales stories or "poj ua tseg yawg ua cia" lawm....We live in a "SCIENTIFIC" world were we MUST question our values and culture if we are to advance ideologically and sociologically ....
Who told you cultural norms are dictated soley by science? There's nothing scientific about Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, etc... Yet, people celebrate these Holidays as if they're REAL. To them, it's real enough. They are culture and tradition... Not science.
If you're so beyond culture and tradition, then why bother asking any of us? Just go and do what you feel like doing. In fact, why bother with any rules at all that have no scientific backing? Go rob someone, it's not scientifically wrong to do that. Science doesn't say it's wrong to beat someone's face in or steal their identity.
This is not a question of science, it's a question or ethics, morals and cultural values. Part of being Hmong is having a set of cultural and traditional parameters that set us apart from other ethnicities. The same can be argued of any other race, culture, ethnicity. Indians don't beef... There's nothing scientific about that. It's all cultural.
Science helps us in the way of teaching us about proper diet and getting proper exercise, etc... But it doesn't provide morals and ethics as they relate to cultural norms. The ethics of science is not to use it in a negative way. And even that's not scientific. It's a moral issue.
Trust me, if science was the sole reason for us getting married, few of us would qualify. Only the fittest, brightest people without defects would be allowed to marry.