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What is the Alabama of your country? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] sean@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 8 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

[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do people from Acre even exist though?

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Now that's one I heard a lot lol

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[–] anothermember@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Take it with a pinch of salt like all regional stereotypes, but Norfolk, England tends to have this one in the UK (Norwich, which others have mentioned, is in Norfolk).

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Saskatchewan.

[–] ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Birmingham

[–] felykiosa@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Nord pas de Calais for France

[–] dadaredone@lemmy.ml 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.

[–] sawne128@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Skellefteå in Sweden.

[–] crypto@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] clausetrophobic@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

For the rest of the country, it would be Quebec

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[–] Anti_Weeb_Penguin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Santiago del Estero

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[–] sndrtj@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Urk.

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[–] windowlicker@hexbear.net 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.

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's your go to, Mississippi?

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Norwich

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[–] nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Veneto, stuff like this & more happened there

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[–] Firipu@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. Limburg
  2. anywhere but Tokyo and Osaka?
[–] OADINC@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Limburg??? Nog nooit van Urk gehoord?

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