What is the Alabama of your country?
What is the Alabama of your country?
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».
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.
asked/answers from one month ago: Non Americans, what province is the "Alabama" of your country?
alabama
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.
Queensland
Burgenland
In France that's north
The province of Manabí in Ecuador. Its even in books
Everybody gangster till Kashmir walks in.
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 😅 )
Alabama is the Alabama of my country
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).
Southern Jutland for the redneck backwardness and incest/zoophilia, the island of Lolland for the rural poverty and hopelessness.
Saguenay (Lac Saint-Jean). In Québec,Canada. Very known for it's high cosanguinity.
Nord pas de Calais for France
Birmingham
Saskatchewan.
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.
Skellefteå in Sweden.
Kerry
Falkirk.
Gold Coast
Podlasie and Podkarpacie
Sheppey...
They got webbed feet over there
Galicia
Alabama is the Alabama of my country.
New Hampshire/backwoods Maine.
New England does not consent to being considered a part of the same country as the Bible Belt/Florida.
Jokes aside, New Hampshire is known as "The South of the North" for its very..."conservative" political stances.
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