r/technicallythetruth • u/FlimsyBlood330 undefined boundaries. • 15d ago

We aren't so different after all.

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u/JayMack1981 15d ago

Penguins don't pay 6 months salary for theirs.

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u/DarkenL1ght 15d ago

Most humans don't either. That's propaganda from the diamond industry.

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u/Nihilikara 15d ago

The reason humans do is specifically because of propaganda from the diamond industry. That was never the norm until they lied and said it was.

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u/PatHeist 15d ago

It was never the norm after that either.

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u/anonymousetache 15d ago

I thought it was 2-3 years of salary?

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u/2eanimation 15d ago

You could buy an expensive ring without a diamond in it. Technically, the proposal „ring“ could be a gold bar that you hand her.

Isn’t the tradition more about giving presents to the woman so if a divorce happens, she has something to live off(bearing children and caring for them usually means they don’t have much for them other than what they‘ve been gifted)?

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u/fuzzybunnies1 15d ago

That was the whole purpose behind dowrys, the engagement ring is to tell other perspective suitors that she's off the market. Now when I wouldn't have considered that an immediate no in my own pursuits but the concept dates to when people were more way more concerned with propriety and formality and chasing an engaged woman could mean dishonoring someone who might seek satisfaction so it had similar but much more serious purpose.

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u/ninjasaid13 15d ago

Isn’t the tradition more about giving presents to the woman so if a divorce happens, she has something to live off(bearing children and caring for them usually means they don’t have much for them other than what they‘ve been gifted)?

Well I mean, there's child support and other forms of money.