Here are two sentences:

Though the legal age for marriage in Romania is 18 , the country generally tolerates the Gypsy tradition of arranged child weddings .

Though the legal age for marriage in Romania is 18 , the country generally tolerates the tradition of arranged child weddings among Roma , as Gypsies are also known .
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Select from: I. no II. yes
II.