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Anon meets a girl at a wedding (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Edit. I understand now, thanks.

What is a second cousin? Your cousins cousin? The person your aunt/uncle marrieds niece/nephew? That can't be right, that's not blood. Help! Lol

[–] Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works 96 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I find this chart helpful to see family relationships.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 10 months ago

Then its not even an issue at all from a genetic standpoint. People might find their relationship weird but their children would turn out healthy.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

That is helpful, thanks

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Where do we draw the line when a cousin becomes acceptable? I want a clear number

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The number of your cousins divided by two plus seven is what I heard

[–] Spectrism@feddit.org 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is no line. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago

And the points don't matter.

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

As always it depends on how hot they are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] nuzkie@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile the Chinese need a calculator to find out what to call their father's sister's daughter's husband's father

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

And Koreans. I don't know much about Chinese, but in Korea it also matters whether you're a boy or girl in what you call your relation.

[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My aunt’s kid is my cousin. My cousin’s kid and my kid are second cousins.

It’s essentially finding the most recent common ancestor. My cousins and I share grandparents. Second cousins share great-grandparents, and so on.

“Once removed” and such refers to generational differences. So, my first cousin’s kid is my first cousin once removed, and my kid’s second cousin.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Gotcha. I was thinking across the tree, not down it. Thank you

[–] damo_omad@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure it's the children of your parent's cousins

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What is a second cousin?

Someone with whom your most recent common ancestor is a great grandparent to both of you.

Like how a first cousin is someone with whom your most recent common ancestor is a grandparent to both of you (aka you both have a same grandparent but not a same parent - meaning one of each of your parents are siblings with each other).

If the most recent common ancestor isn't the same relation for both of you, then there's probably a "times removed" or one of you is some variety of aunt/uncle to the other.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks for ignoring the edit on my comment.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your Nan's sisters granddaughter

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

My not a number?