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».
Saarland in Germany, supposedly
The reasoning goes that the population there is so small that there really isn’t an ‘outside the family’.
Sweden
Source country: Denmark
I dunno, Iceland’s right there with their dating apps that specifically make sure you aren’t related.
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.
I guess they’re OK with being just a little bit related. Like just a skosh.
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Icelander here. Our Alabama is Selfoss
Sweden’s response:
Savage.
Sweden and Denmark have a bit of a history, so I’m not sure what to believe: https://satwcomic.com/nordic-brothers
Me, I only tell the truth.
Unlike those damned folks in Sweden smdh with sarcasm
Also from Denmark. I came here to say Lolland-Falster, but yours work too!
North of France for, well, France.
Remote mountainous regions for Switzerland because besides fucking their cousins, they also lack oxygen with the high altitude.
Like in the movie “Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis” (Welcome to the Sticks)?
Yep those guys.
Too bad cause as you can see it in the movie they are actually really cool and friendly peoples.
People in Alabama are suuuuper friendly (outside the voting booth or inside their siblings)
North of France is England. Are you starting something Pierre?
I always thought it was corsica. What part of the north? More towards brittany or Lille? Or normandy more specifically?
Lille, what we call “Les ch’tis” so the 59th department.
I don’t feel like Corsica is considered inbred but maybe because they are noisier (wannabe independent and former terrorists) and probably because it’s a beautiful sunny vacation area.
North doesn’t attract that much tourists even if it is in fact a cool area. That might change with the yearly heatwaves.
lmao theres literally a movie about someone from the south being stranded in the north
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1064932/
It’s kinda funny to me that anywhere in france could be considered the sticks. You can’t go 5km without some kind of a town or village. Relative to apalachia or the rockies it may as well be manhattan.
For the Netherlands, Urk. Which I always thought sounds aptly like orc.
Uruk. They just forgot the second “U”
Or Volendam. They all look the same and have 1 of 5 surnames.
The Alabama of my country is Alabama
Lemme guess…you’re from Norway? Nigeria? Definitely somewhere starting with N!
Argh! Don’t say Ni!
Echi echi sproing!
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.
Alberta is the Texas of the North, I think Sask is more Alabama / Arkansas.
Source: live in Sask 😢
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.
Fuck can they run though
So what you’re telling me is that Jordan Peterson is inbred…
That explains a lot.
If you want to go province by province, BC has Bountiful BC home of a bunch of fundie LDS members that marry and breed with their daughters.
Nothing more backwards and family fucking than the fundie LDS.
Nah, Alberta is the Georgia. Saskatchewan is the Alabama :D
Gotta agree, went to Saskatchewan for a cousin’s wedding.
Guy had a confederate flag truck parked out front
I don’t know what non-Americans think of the US state of Georgia the way I know about their Alabama and Texas views.
Why Georgia?
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.
I’m happy we all got to go on this journey today
Tasmania
I was gonna say Queensland. But Tassie actually does get the most Alabama type jokes.
Tasmania for incest, north Queensland for rednecks, NT for weird fucked up “Florida Man” antics.
Yeah I think you’ve got it right. But then what this suggests is the ridiculous idea that a very large proportion of the country is sucking on lead paint chips, fighting roos and fucking their sister. But we did have a vote recently that actually confirmed that, so… Maybe it’s not ridiculous
I mean I’m just basing that off stereotypes. I’ve met some absolutely lovely north Queensland people, dated a Tasmanian for a while despite not being related, and I’m not completely convinced the NT even actually exists.
Nice
Your sister is your mother Your father is your brother You all fuck one another A tassie family
I’m my own grandpa
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Well played
asked/answers from one month ago: Non Americans, what province is the “Alabama” of your country?
Thanks!! Gotta read it later on desktop, for some reason the link breaks the app I’m using
Doesn’t open in Jerboa either, but I am able to copy paste it.
I’m using Jerboa, too and when I click the link, I can’t open with Jerboa, but I can open it in a browser
Works in Sync for Lemmy
Pretty amazing how the answers are so similar.
Central Anatolia in Turkey. A lot more religiousness=half humorous half real stereotype of kid/cousin/donkey diddling.
Unnrealated Anatolian fun fact time. The world’s oldest known peace treaty between the Hittites and Egyptians originates from Anatolia.
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.)
Thanks, I’d never read about Paduhepa. That’s a fun rabbit hole.
Where’s the NEWEST peace treaty between the Hittites and Egyptians from, though? I’m guessing Birmingham.
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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.
Central PA.
Pennsyltucky
Anywhere low population densities limit the dating pool.
For switzerland it’s appenzell
damn was not fast enough lol
Sry 'bout that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Florida
Your position is that Florida is more Alabama than Alabama?
They’re certainly trying to out Alabama Alabama, at least.
Florida’s Sunshine Laws just make their trash public. I shudder to think what happens in Alabama without our knowledge. 😬😬😬
I know it doesn’t make sense, but can’t blame the guy, he probably went to school in Florida
Native Floridian, can confirm.
