Readers,
I encourage intermarriage, however, the fact remain that South Sudanese are still a very conservatives people. The speed that Riek Machar and his family members are running to change the face and culture of the country is worrying to me at least. Emma, Becka and now a Polish Whites European.

Yes, good news. Is better to leave politic and do your things.

I didn’t have to read the whole article coz I knew z like son like father.Now they have 3 white thighs(Emma,Becky and this one).Heh heh heh heh.Their families are in Europe but their cannon fodders don’t see logic behind this.Nyaliad!!

Married to a young Polish girl? He has followed his father’s legacy. They are fond of light skin chicks.

Congratulations Dr. Machar for not being an obstacle to your son’s choice. That is being a good Dad.

Mach and others:
Congratz to both of you, Teny! and the new family member.

Mach and others:
Why are you guys so concerns, about Dr Riek son personal love life? Otherwise, you guys are making Sudantribune’s become a lame website. Because Sometime we need to let’s thing go, that are not important to us. You guys supposed to congratulates the newly wedds, instead of insulting. What’s an uncivilized manner.

The Nuer "Proverb" it doesn’t matter for a Nuer man to marry anywhere in the world provided that the lady he (Nuer man) married will bear him Nuer children, and she will be assimilated into Nuer ethnic group. The Nuer married many girls from other tribes (Anyuak, Shilluk, Dinka, Burun...) across South Sudan. They even cross borders, married from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, America, Asia... Europe.

Jaang,
Yes, it’s very difficult to fine who is pure Nuer in Nuer Nation. Nuer Nation considers itself like America where you can find people from different backgrounds (English, French, Germans, Polish, Russions, Chines... Native Americans). All these mentions groups consider themsleves as Americans rather than their countries of origins.

Persons of the Dinka decent form probably at least half the population of most [Nuer] sub-tribes. These Dinka are either children of captives or immigrants who have been brought up as Nuer, or are themselves captives and immigrants who are residing permanently among Nuer. They are “Jaang-Nath,” “Dinka-Nuer,” and, it is said, “caa Naath,” “they have become Nuer.”

There must also have been pockets of the original Dinka, Anyuak and Burun occupants of the country overrun by the Nuer Warriors who submitted and gave up their language and habits in favor of those of the Nuer. At any rate, there are today in all Nuer sub-tribes many small Dinka lineages and village are often named after them (Dinka, Anyuak, Burun…)

The capture of 372 young women and girls a year during the period of 1818 to 1905 would remove 32,625 productive females from the Central Dinka and Anyuak population and thus eventually decrease that population by 110,915 individuals. The capture of 125 boys a year over the same period would decrease the Central Dinka and Anyuak population by an additional 5,250 persons.

In sum, the proposed rate of capture would effectively transfer 116,165 persons from Central Dinka and Anyuak population to that of the Nuer.

Jang/Slave,
It’s very hard for a Nuer lady to accept another man outside Nuer community to be her husband. The Nuer ladies are very conservative in this regard. On the other hand, the Nuer ladies are too expensive for other Jurs (Jaang, Teet, Bar, Chai, Nyam-Nyam...) to afford dowries. All in all, it’s Nuer ladies who still keep Nuer culture alive.

A Nuer lady gets married outside Nuer community only when she is ugly, disabled, divorced, and/or widow. Then, these Jurs (Jaang, Teet, Bar, Chai...) would have chance to marry those ladies. But at one point, these ladies are given free of charge (dowry), and in this way some Dinkas, Anyuaks, Buruns are attracted to duel in Nuer country.

"Kim Deng. Then there is nothing as a pure Nuer. If you marry from without, who then would marry your women?"
Don’t worry about that. Don’t you know that a Nuer man can have more than one wife? I’m sure you know that Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon has more than one wife, two from Nuer community, while the other two are outside Nuer community.

"Kim Deng. Then there is nothing as a pure Nuer. If you marry from without, who then would marry your women?"
Don’t worry about that. Don’t you know that a Nuer man can have more than one wife? I’m sure you know that Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon has more than one wife, two from Nuer community, while the other two are outside Nuer community.