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What is the Alabama of your country? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was gonna say Queensland. But Tassie actually does get the most Alabama type jokes.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Tasmania for incest, north Queensland for rednecks, NT for weird fucked up "Florida Man" antics.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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.