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».
- manucode ( @manucode@infosec.pub ) 73•8 months ago
Saarland in Germany, supposedly
- bleistift2 ( @bleistift2@feddit.de ) English38•8 months ago
The reasoning goes that the population there is so small that there really isn’t an ‘outside the family’.
- Skunk ( @Skunk@jlai.lu ) 37•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 ( @rufus@discuss.tchncs.de ) 11•8 months ago
Like in the movie “Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis” (Welcome to the Sticks)?
- Skunk ( @Skunk@jlai.lu ) 6•8 months ago
Yep those guys.
Too bad cause as you can see it in the movie they are actually really cool and friendly peoples.
- lars ( @lars@lemmy.sdf.org ) 6•8 months ago
People in Alabama are suuuuper friendly (outside the voting booth or inside their siblings)
- Patariki ( @Patariki@feddit.nl ) 34•8 months ago
For the Netherlands, Urk. Which I always thought sounds aptly like orc.
- Tessellecta ( @Tessellecta@feddit.nl ) 3•8 months ago
Or Volendam. They all look the same and have 1 of 5 surnames.
- Bo7a ( @Bo7a@lemmy.ca ) 34•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.
- VinceUnderReview ( @vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 15•8 months ago
Alberta is the Texas of the North, I think Sask is more Alabama / Arkansas.
Source: live in Sask 😢
- mycatiskai ( @mycatiskai@lemmy.one ) 4•8 months ago
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.
- Kissaki ( @Kissaki@feddit.de ) English20•8 months ago
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
- JackGreenEarth ( @JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ) 3•8 months ago
Doesn’t open in Jerboa either, but I am able to copy paste it.
- lugal ( @lugal@lemmy.ml ) 6•8 months ago
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
- ParanoidPizzas ( @ParanoidPizzas@aussie.zone ) 19•8 months ago
Tasmania
- johnthedoe ( @johnthedoe@lemmy.ml ) 12•8 months ago
I was gonna say Queensland. But Tassie actually does get the most Alabama type jokes.
- Strayce ( @Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org ) English21•8 months ago
Tasmania for incest, north Queensland for rednecks, NT for weird fucked up “Florida Man” antics.
- boogetyboo ( @boogetyboo@aussie.zone ) 5•8 months ago
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
- Strayce ( @Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org ) English5•8 months ago
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.
- Blue and Orange ( @DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee ) 11•8 months ago
In Ireland, pretty much anyone who lives outside a major urban centre. We call them “culchies”.
- Vlaxtocia [she/her] ( @Vlaxtocia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•8 months ago
Same in the UK, lived in the Midlands and the people in the next village over we’re “fennies” (because they lived in the fens). Cue jokes about webbed feet and incest
- neamhsplach ( @neamhsplach@beehaw.org ) 1•8 months ago
Girl, no. Our Alabama is most definitely Roscommon.
- halva ( @halva@discuss.tchncs.de ) 10•8 months ago
alabama
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 10•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 😅 )
- TimewornTraveler ( @TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ) 2•8 months ago
well that explains everyone getting naked together and the folk heroes fucking their sisters and whatnot
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 2•8 months ago
To be fair, incest is like weirdly common in many myths; for example the gods of the Greek pantheon got up to some really freaky shit that makes the light sister-fucking in the Kalevala seem practically wholesome.
Interestingly the story of Kullervo’s sister-fucking (which I think was accidental, but I’m too lazy to read the article to check) leading to terrible consequences was intended as a warning against the practice, because there was a heavy taboo on incest – and that’s a bit hilarious considering the fact that that we were such prodigious sister/cousin/etc-fuckers for such a long time that our gene pool now has turds floating in it.
Those amateurs in Alabama doesn’t have anything on us yet; we can reassess the situation once they have as many ridiculously rare hereditiary diseases as we do per capita.
- ɐɥO ( @Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ) 9•8 months ago
Burgenland
- dewritoninja ( @dewritoninja@pawb.social ) 9•8 months ago
The province of Manabí in Ecuador. Its even in books
- Mubelotix ( @Mubelotix@jlai.lu ) 8•8 months ago
In France that’s north
- Dieguito 🦝 ( @DieguiTux8623@feddit.it ) 8•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.
- Shepy ( @Shepy@feddit.uk ) 8•8 months ago
Norwich
- Daeraxa ( @Daeraxa@lemmy.ml ) 7•8 months ago
The webbed fingers are an evolutionary advantage for paddling in the broads
- anothermember ( @anothermember@beehaw.org ) 8•8 months 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).