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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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[–] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Sweden

Source country: Denmark

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I dunno, Iceland’s right there with their dating apps that specifically make sure you aren’t related.

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess they're OK with being just a little bit related. Like just a skosh.

[–] JehovasThickness@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Icelander here. Our Alabama is Selfoss

[–] sparky 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sweden’s response:

[–] Shard@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Savage.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sweden and Denmark have a bit of a history, so I'm not sure what to believe: https://satwcomic.com/nordic-brothers

[–] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me, I only tell the truth.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Unlike those damned folks in Sweden smdh with sarcasm

[–] MartinXYZ@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Also from Denmark. I came here to say Lolland-Falster, but yours work too!