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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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[-] 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).

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

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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[-] sean@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] 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.

[-] ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Saskatchewan.

[-] 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.

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

Nord pas de Calais for France

[-] crypto@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] clausetrophobic@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

For the rest of the country, it would be Quebec

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

Skellefteå in Sweden.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago
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[-] 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.

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

Limburg??? Nog nooit van Urk gehoord?

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[-] nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Veneto, stuff like this & more happened there

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[-] Mr_1077@monero.town 4 points 1 year ago

Skellefteå is the Alabama for Sweden, and most of Noway and Denmark too. However, for the whole Nordics, we have Iceland. The whole country of Iceland.

[-] Whisper06@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Apparently there’s a phone app that lets them know if they’re related or not.

[-] windowlicker@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

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

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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