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What is the Alabama of your country? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by nicolasfields@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Shepy 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Norwich

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

As long as the broads consent first, of course.

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Or Scottish Borders, if you wanna go UK-wide

[–] Chouxfleur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'd argue the whole county, but Norwich is certainly the eye of the storm on that front...

[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Shepy 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was more basing it on fucking their kin and having webbed toes :P

[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough. There I go over thinking things again.