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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: "Traditional Values"
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 09:59:45 EDT
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> In article <2722@ihuxf.UUCP> features@ihuxf.UUCP (aMAZon) writes:
> 
> >	You're absolutely right about most marriages being based
> >on economic grounds.  A daughter was looked upon as another
> >commodity, like a cow or a goat.
> 
This was true in some societies such as in China.  I don't believe this was
the mode of thinking of western societies.  

In Africa, cannibals existed.  It would be wrong to generalize and say in the
past, people ate their cousins.  It would be right to say in the past there
existed isolated incidences where some societies practiced cannibalism.