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».

  • Bo7a
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    431 year ago

    Alberta - I love me some mennonites, but they are really into ‘keeping it in the family’.

    -Source: Married a mennonite and absconded out of province with her.

  • @Toorin@lemmy.world
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    Central Anatolia in Turkey. A lot more religiousness=half humorous half real stereotype of kid/cousin/donkey diddling.

    • @Bananigans@lemmy.ml
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      91 year ago

      Unnrealated Anatolian fun fact time. The world’s oldest known peace treaty between the Hittites and Egyptians originates from Anatolia.

      • @kromem@lemmy.world
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        91 year ago

        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.)

    • zarp86
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      141 year ago

      Your position is that Florida is more Alabama than Alabama?

  • @Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Blue and Orange
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    91 year ago

    In Ireland, pretty much anyone who lives outside a major urban centre. We call them “culchies”.

  • interolivary
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    61 year ago

    From a historical perspective Finland is essentially “Alabama: the country”, and for example there’s a bunch of rare genetic diseases that are much more common in people with Finnish heritage. Population has always been pretty sparse so it’s not much of a surprise that people, err… “kept it in the family” so to speak – and it’s not exactly uncommon even nowadays in some of the more rural areas (ie. pretty much the majority of the country 😅 )

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        To be fair, incest is like weirdly common in many myths; for example the gods of the Greek pantheon got up to some really freaky shit that makes the light sister-fucking in the Kalevala seem practically wholesome.

        Interestingly the story of Kullervo’s sister-fucking (which I think was accidental, but I’m too lazy to read the article to check) leading to terrible consequences was intended as a warning against the practice, because there was a heavy taboo on incest – and that’s a bit hilarious considering the fact that that we were such prodigious sister/cousin/etc-fuckers for such a long time that our gene pool now has turds floating in it.

        Those amateurs in Alabama doesn’t have anything on us yet; we can reassess the situation once they have as many ridiculously rare hereditiary diseases as we do per capita.