[quote name='Husky' date='25 February 2016 - 01:19 AM' timestamp='1456380714' post='117944']
In recent decades, the Korean government found this taboo of people of the same surnames/lineages not being allowed to intermarry to be "discrimination" and enacted a law stipulating that people of the surname should be allowed to marry each other. (I wonder whether there was any christian impetus behind the supposed "democratisation" and "egalitarianism" in the recent legislation, with the aim of breaking Korean tradition-based taboos? The way there had been christian meddling - to various degrees - regarding hair-cutting in Korean men, dog-eating, funeral ceremonies for ancestors, and other traditional matters in S Korea, which had been turned into controversial issues. Some still are, as christianity hasn't yet eradicated all these traditions.)[/quote]
Taboos against dog-eating have existed in the Indian subcontinent as well. From Bhagavad Gita 5:18:
My last post on this forum.
In recent decades, the Korean government found this taboo of people of the same surnames/lineages not being allowed to intermarry to be "discrimination" and enacted a law stipulating that people of the surname should be allowed to marry each other. (I wonder whether there was any christian impetus behind the supposed "democratisation" and "egalitarianism" in the recent legislation, with the aim of breaking Korean tradition-based taboos? The way there had been christian meddling - to various degrees - regarding hair-cutting in Korean men, dog-eating, funeral ceremonies for ancestors, and other traditional matters in S Korea, which had been turned into controversial issues. Some still are, as christianity hasn't yet eradicated all these traditions.)[/quote]
Taboos against dog-eating have existed in the Indian subcontinent as well. From Bhagavad Gita 5:18:
Quote:TEXT 18
vidya-vinaya-sampanne
brahmane gavi hastini
suni caiva sva-pake ca
panditah sama-darsinah
...
TRANSLATION
The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brÃÂhmaá¹â¡a, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater (outcaste)
My last post on this forum.