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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] 103 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Saarland in Germany, supposedly

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago

The reasoning goes that the population there is so small that there really isn’t an ‘outside the family’.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Sweden

Source country: Denmark

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I dunno, Iceland’s right there with their dating apps that specifically make sure you aren’t related.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sweden’s response: https://i.imgur.com/rnhFBwg.jpg

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sweden and Denmark have a bit of a history, so I'm not sure what to believe: https://satwcomic.com/nordic-brothers

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Me, I only tell the truth.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago (2 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] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years 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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For the Netherlands, Urk. Which I always thought sounds aptly like orc.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Alabama of my country is Alabama

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lemme guess..you're from Norway? Nigeria? Definitely somewhere starting with N!

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[–] Bo7a 51 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Alberta is the Texas of the North, I think Sask is more Alabama / Arkansas.

Source: live in Sask 😢

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Fuck can they run though

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

So what you're telling me is that Jordan Peterson is inbred...

That explains a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was gonna say Queensland. But Tassie actually does get the most Alabama type jokes.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Tasmania for incest, north Queensland for rednecks, NT for weird fucked up "Florida Man" antics.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Thanks!! Gotta read it later on desktop, for some reason the link breaks the app I'm using

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Central Anatolia in Turkey. A lot more religiousness=half humorous half real stereotype of kid/cousin/donkey diddling.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Unnrealated Anatolian fun fact time. The world's oldest known peace treaty between the Hittites and Egyptians originates from Anatolia.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For switzerland it's appenzell

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Your position is that Florida is more Alabama than Alabama?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

They're certainly trying to out Alabama Alabama, at least.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Florida’s Sunshine Laws just make their trash public. I shudder to think what happens in Alabama without our knowledge. 😬😬😬

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The webbed fingers are an evolutionary advantage for paddling in the broads

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

As long as the broads consent first, of course.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

In Ireland, pretty much anyone who lives outside a major urban centre. We call them "culchies".

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

The province of Manabí in Ecuador. Its even in books

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

In France that's north

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Everybody gangster till Kashmir walks in.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 😅 )

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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).

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