What Malayalam movies didn't quite age so well and will be considered distasteful today, but you love and will defend it inspite of that?

No form of incest is any longer "actively encouraged" in most parts of TN

Well this wasn't the case up until recently. TN culture historically encouraged & romanticized first cousin marriage for a long time. Doesn't matter if people in cities stopped doing it now. Their parents, grandparents & great grandparents did it for so long that recessive genes got passed down through multiple generations & chance of expression of undesirable traits spiked in their civilization.

one of the more developed & literate (80+%) states of our country

Has nothing to do with the problem at hand. TN as a society remained uneducated on the topic of inbreeding & potential risks, for a long time.

So nothing extreme or irrational about first cousin marriage being a social taboo at all

Depends on what kind of society we're talking about. If it's a society that's uneducated on this particular topic & keeps romanticizing the idea of first cousin marriage, yeah then you got something to worry about. Bcoz there is a good chance that sequential inbreeding will occur throughout multiple generations, leading to spike in recessive gene expression rate in newborns. But if we're talking about a society that's educated on the topic & does not have a habit of inbreeding, then there's nothing wrong if two cousins happen to fall in love/date. Yet, American culture stigmatizes it to a level where a random first/second cousin couple can get shamed for it, it's just unnecessary. At that point they are just using phony science to justify their beliefs

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