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».
Veneto, stuff like this & more happened there
Veneto is more like Texas tbh
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Saskatchewan.
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!
North of France for, well, France.
Remote mountainous regions for Switzerland because besides fucking their cousins, they also lack oxygen with the high altitude.
I always thought it was corsica. What part of the north? More towards brittany or Lille? Or normandy more specifically?
Lille, what we call “Les ch’tis” so the 59th department.
I don’t feel like Corsica is considered inbred but maybe because they are noisier (wannabe independent and former terrorists) and probably because it’s a beautiful sunny vacation area.
North doesn’t attract that much tourists even if it is in fact a cool area. That might change with the yearly heatwaves.
lmao theres literally a movie about someone from the south being stranded in the north
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1064932/
It’s kinda funny to me that anywhere in france could be considered the sticks. You can’t go 5km without some kind of a town or village. Relative to apalachia or the rockies it may as well be manhattan.
Like in the movie “Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis” (Welcome to the Sticks)?
Yep those guys.
Too bad cause as you can see it in the movie they are actually really cool and friendly peoples.
People in Alabama are suuuuper friendly (outside the voting booth or inside their siblings)
North of France is England. Are you starting something Pierre?
Saarland in Germany, supposedly
The reasoning goes that the population there is so small that there really isn’t an ‘outside the family’.
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.
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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Fuck off you racist scumbag
fuck off, racist disgusting scum
Found the Romanian.
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Norwich
I’d argue the whole county, but Norwich is certainly the eye of the storm on that front…
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.
Norwich
norwich is nice
the north is worse
Tasmania
Your sister is your mother Your father is your brother You all fuck one another A tassie family
I’m my own grandpa
I was gonna say Queensland. But Tassie actually does get the most Alabama type jokes.
Tasmania for incest, north Queensland for rednecks, NT for weird fucked up “Florida Man” antics.
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
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.
Nice
Alabama is the Alabama of my country
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.