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it is but that belief is entirely created by a monopolistic company in the 1930s
diamond rings weren't really a thing before that

Well, beliefs hold strong. This is their nature. They become part of society and then it becomes extremely hard to disperse them. Romantic Love is too a meme, invented in the Romantic Era. Before that it didn't exist. Yet, look where it is today and how people go crazy over it.