Saad Syed
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 p.3 #13 · BIGGEST DIAMOND RING PICTURE | |
You know, it's so interesting to compare different cultures.
In *some* cultures of the East (some Middle Eastern and South Asian cultures) no one really cares about diamonds. the whole "diamond is a girl's best friend" isn't really understood. It's more about gold than rocks. there are weddings where the girl might be given a $1,000 dollar ring, but $80,000 in gold. Also, in the East, they don't do the whole 12 karat half-copper-half-gold deal either. You bring 22 karats (almost pure gold), period.
I tried to figure out why the emphasis on gold was so much more than diamonds and I was told that it has to do with "outlook". Apparently, diamonds are only rare due to commercial limitations on the number of diamonds released to the public by the major diamond mining companies. There are tuns of giant diamond mines everywhere, so the value is more about cut, clarity, etc. coupled with market control. As far as gold goes, it's always been rare, has always been treasured, and has been used as the standard of money for a large part of modern history. Who really knows ::shrug::
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