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What is the Alabama of your country? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by [B] 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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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    well that explains everyone getting naked together and the folk heroes fucking their sisters and whatnot

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    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.

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