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Originally Posted by Taoboxer
... . In Asia, especially in those countries that have strongly adopted Confucian values from the Chinese, you are not technically a man unless you are married and/or have begotten offspring.
Even if you died unmarried at the age of 80, you would still be considered a b% and, technically, a virgin. you would be buried with the same funeral rites as those of a child...unless there was proof that you'd sired one out of wedlock.
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-- I believe that the same used to be true in the more RC. & conservative parts of IRELAND.