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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

North of France for, well, France.

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep those guys.

Too bad cause as you can see it in the movie they are actually really cool and friendly peoples.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

People in Alabama are suuuuper friendly (outside the voting booth or inside their siblings)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always thought it was corsica. What part of the north? More towards brittany or Lille? Or normandy more specifically?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.