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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] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is probably super localised but Kinloch Rannoch in Perthshire, Scotland.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Weirdly enough, I've nvr heard of a state in my country (Brazil) that would be our 'alabama'. I'm sure someone will correct me soon tho

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

Do people from Acre even exist though?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Now that's one I heard a lot lol

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Southern Jutland for the redneck backwardness and incest/zoophilia, the island of Lolland for the rural poverty and hopelessness.

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

Birmingham

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Saguenay (Lac Saint-Jean). In Québec,Canada. Very known for it's high cosanguinity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Skellefteå in Sweden.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not quiet an alabama but an particular hindu community, who marry their uncles daughter(mom's brother). well none are in my sights of relatives though.

[–] xmunk 5 points 1 year ago

Saskatchewan.

[–] felykiosa 5 points 1 year ago

Nord pas de Calais for France

[–] Anti_Weeb_Penguin 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Santiago del Estero

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[–] crypto 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the province of Québec I would say it's Saguenay.

[–] clausetrophobic 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

For the rest of the country, it would be Quebec

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Norwich

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

as someone in the united states, this "alabama is the backwards hick place for dumb yokels" thing is pretty annoying and classist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's your go to, Mississippi?

[–] agamemnonymous 7 points 1 year ago

Thank God for Mississippi

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Kentucky, personally. Incest ran so deep it turned that one family blue. The fugates IIRC.