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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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[–] Patariki@feddit.nl 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For the Netherlands, Urk. Which I always thought sounds aptly like orc.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Uruk. They just forgot the second "U"

[–] Tessellecta@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Or Volendam. They all look the same and have 1 of 5 surnames.