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
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!
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.
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!
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
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Well played
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.
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.
alabama
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)_/¯
Norwich
The webbed fingers are an evolutionary advantage for paddling in the broads
As long as the broads consent first, of course.
As an American who has lived in the Southern US and East Anglia, I feel like Norwich/Norfolk is more Mississippi and Suffolk is more Alabama. But I really don’t have anything to back that up other than Suffolk feels more rural. And Norfolk seemed more willfully ignorant. At least this was the case 20 years ago when I lived there.
I was more basing it on fucking their kin and having webbed toes :P
Fair enough. There I go over thinking things again.
I’d argue the whole county, but Norwich is certainly the eye of the storm on that front…
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. 😬😬😬
Native Floridian, can confirm.
The province of Manabí in Ecuador. Its even in books
In Ireland, pretty much anyone who lives outside a major urban centre. We call them “culchies”.
A cluchie is just a way of saying country person. It has absolutely nothing to do with incest.
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
Girl, no. Our Alabama is most definitely Roscommon.
