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».
Sweden
Source country: Denmark
I dunno, Iceland’s right there with their dating apps that specifically make sure you aren’t related.
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.
I guess they’re OK with being just a little bit related. Like just a skosh.
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Icelander here. Our Alabama is Selfoss
Savage.
Sweden and Denmark have a bit of a history, so I’m not sure what to believe: https://satwcomic.com/nordic-brothers
Me, I only tell the truth.
Also from Denmark. I came here to say Lolland-Falster, but yours work too!
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!
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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.
Alabama
Also, incest isn’t limited to Alabama. Also applies to Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Don’t really know how it got started but this seems to include all the places that can have some hardcore hillbillies.
Central PA.
Pennsyltucky
Florida
Your position is that Florida is more Alabama than Alabama?
They’re certainly trying to out Alabama Alabama, at least.
Florida’s Sunshine Laws just make their trash public. I shudder to think what happens in Alabama without our knowledge. 😬😬😬
Native Floridian, can confirm.
For switzerland it’s appenzell
damn was not fast enough lol
Sry 'bout that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everybody gangster till Kashmir walks in.
In Ireland, pretty much anyone who lives outside a major urban centre. We call them “culchies”.
A cluchie is just a way of saying country person. It has absolutely nothing to do with incest.
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
Do people from Acre even exist though?
Now that’s one I heard a lot lol
Nord pas de Calais for France
Birmingham
For the province of Québec I would say it’s Saguenay.
For the rest of the country, it would be Quebec
Cool
Saskatchewan.
Falkirk.
