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What is the Alabama of your country? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by nicolasfields@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hi everybody, my girlfriend showed me a Tiktok about manga authors adding unnecessary incest plotlines to their works and I thought immediately "They are from Monterrey" (we are from Mexico).

I remembered that the States have a similar joke about Alabama and I started wondering if other countries also have a state or city associated with people who are, for some unknown reason, attrated to their cousins.

Here in Mexico there even is a kind of saying for these people «A la prima se le arrima».

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[-] manucode@infosec.pub 106 points 8 months ago

Saarland in Germany, supposedly

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 49 points 8 months ago

The reasoning goes that the population there is so small that there really isn’t an ‘outside the family’.

[-] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 95 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Sweden

Source country: Denmark

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 41 points 8 months ago

I dunno, Iceland’s right there with their dating apps that specifically make sure you aren’t related.

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago

Kinda necessary when your population is less than 400,000.

Go back not that far, relatively, and everyone living there (who isn't a immigrant) is related in some capacity.

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[-] sparky@lemmy.pt 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Sweden’s response:

[-] Shard@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Savage.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago

Sweden and Denmark have a bit of a history, so I'm not sure what to believe: https://satwcomic.com/nordic-brothers

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[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 63 points 8 months ago

North of France for, well, France.

Remote mountainous regions for Switzerland because besides fucking their cousins, they also lack oxygen with the high altitude.

[-] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 8 months ago

Like in the movie "Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis" (Welcome to the Sticks)?

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[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

North of France is England. Are you starting something Pierre?

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[-] Patariki@feddit.nl 53 points 8 months ago

For the Netherlands, Urk. Which I always thought sounds aptly like orc.

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[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 52 points 8 months ago

The Alabama of my country is Alabama

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Lemme guess..you're from Norway? Nigeria? Definitely somewhere starting with N!

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[-] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 52 points 8 months ago

Alberta - I love me some mennonites, but they are really into 'keeping it in the family'.

-Source: Married a mennonite and absconded out of province with her.

[-] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 8 months ago

Alberta is the Texas of the North, I think Sask is more Alabama / Arkansas.

Source: live in Sask 😢

[-] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Until I moved here I thought having a swastika on your truck would mean you'd find it on fire the first night you parked near other people.

[-] Notorious@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

Fuck can they run though

[-] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

So what you're telling me is that Jordan Peterson is inbred...

That explains a lot.

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[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 44 points 8 months ago

I'm from Norway and I immediately thought, "Well, Toten, maybe?" — though I personally hadn't heard any incest jokes about that place.

So I looked up "Norges Alabama", and the first result was a song by that title, about Toten, whose first line and refrain translates as, "I'm going out to ride, ride my cousin".

...So I guess I've heard incest jokes about Toten now.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 14 points 8 months ago

I’m happy we all got to go on this journey today

[-] ParanoidPizzas@aussie.zone 34 points 8 months ago

Tasmania

[-] johnthedoe@lemmy.ml 20 points 8 months ago

I was gonna say Queensland. But Tassie actually does get the most Alabama type jokes.

[-] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Tasmania for incest, north Queensland for rednecks, NT for weird fucked up "Florida Man" antics.

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[-] Kissaki@feddit.de 22 points 8 months ago

asked/answers from one month ago: Non Americans, what province is the "Alabama" of your country?

[-] nicolasfields@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago

Thanks!! Gotta read it later on desktop, for some reason the link breaks the app I'm using

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[-] Toorin@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Central Anatolia in Turkey. A lot more religiousness=half humorous half real stereotype of kid/cousin/donkey diddling.

[-] Bananigans@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago

Unnrealated Anatolian fun fact time. The world's oldest known peace treaty between the Hittites and Egyptians originates from Anatolia.

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Which has a few interesting details:

The Hittite version claimed the Egyptians asked for peace; the Egyptian version claims the Hittites asked for peace
The signatories for the Hittites were the king and his wife, the "great lady" Paduhepa

Also, about a century and a half earlier, there was nearly a marriage between an Egyptian queen who asked for one of the sons of the Hittite king, something so unheard of they commented about how mind blowing the request was. Unfortunately the prince they sent was assassinated en route, as otherwise the joint marriage would have established a kingdom the largest the region had seen or would see until Alexander the Great.

(That story and what may have really been going on with the queen involved is probably one of the most interesting hidden details in all of history as best I've seen.)

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[-] halva@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 8 months ago

alabama

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Alabama

Also, incest isn't limited to Alabama. Also applies to Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Don't really know how it got started but this seems to include all the places that can have some hardcore hillbillies.

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[-] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 15 points 8 months ago

Not a specific place but the small villages encrusted in the remote valleys of the Alps in Northern Italy are quite full of stories that quite match the description. There is even a small borough I can think of which is nicknamed "the village of the assassins" due to its inhabitants having mental disorders due to genetic detects.

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[-] kromem@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Florida

[-] zarp86@sh.itjust.works 19 points 8 months ago

Your position is that Florida is more Alabama than Alabama?

[-] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

They're certainly trying to out Alabama Alabama, at least.

[-] crozilla@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Florida’s Sunshine Laws just make their trash public. I shudder to think what happens in Alabama without our knowledge. 😬😬😬

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[-] RogueFoo@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

For switzerland it's appenzell

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[-] Shepy@feddit.uk 13 points 8 months ago

Norwich

[-] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago

The webbed fingers are an evolutionary advantage for paddling in the broads

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

As long as the broads consent first, of course.

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[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 12 points 8 months ago

Queensland

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 11 points 8 months ago

In France that's north

[-] dewritoninja@pawb.social 11 points 8 months ago

The province of Manabí in Ecuador. Its even in books

[-] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

In Ireland, pretty much anyone who lives outside a major urban centre. We call them "culchies".

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[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 11 points 8 months ago

Burgenland

[-] interolivary@beehaw.org 10 points 8 months ago

From a historical perspective Finland is essentially "Alabama: the country", and for example there's a bunch of rare genetic diseases that are much more common in people with Finnish heritage. Population has always been pretty sparse so it's not much of a surprise that people, err… "kept it in the family" so to speak – and it's not exactly uncommon even nowadays in some of the more rural areas (ie. pretty much the majority of the country 😅 )

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[-] tanvertel@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Everybody gangster till Kashmir walks in.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

Alabama is the Alabama of my country

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