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[Phys-L] Re: Family Values



even worse from "our" ethnocentric view is the treatment of Indian wives
by disfigurement and or often death in a kitchen "accident".

bc, who thinks the buttonphobiacs perhaps had a problem w/ their
neonate, or early childhood, clothing and a klutz mother (PIC).

Brian Whatcott wrote:

At 11:10 AM 12/15/2004, you wrote:


button phobia is considered weird. Do you know anyone who admits to
having a button phobia? I know two such people.


I had a cat who, after a serious illness, would not touch his
formerly favorite canned food for years.
--
Clarence Bennett




Aversion to foods associated with poisoning-like illness
is an extremely favorable survival quality, in my view.

Suspicions about the high suicide rates (x3 normal) associated
with young women of the Moslem faith surfaced in England after
it became known that there is a weed with lethal though bitter-tasting
qualities known to people of that ethnicity.

The herb in question is well-masked by spicy foods. There is a
cultural adherence to family values among them: specifically that
daughters who have associated with (esp.) married men dishonor the
family - with lethal consequences, so that in recorded cases, such
unfortunates have been poiisoned, garrotted or smothered by
their mothers, who enlisted siblings' help.

Brian W


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