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In terms of having the "marrying cousins" stereotype.

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[-] bradv@lemmy.ca 104 points 1 year ago
[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's a tip for Americans, if you want to annoy a Canadian ask them if they're from Alberta, if they ask why tell them they give of Alberta vibes, if you're feeling sauce just say 'Berta vibes instead of Alberta vibes.

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[-] fresh@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago

I don’t think Canada has an Alabama. As conservative as they are, Alberta is wealthy, highly educated, and they frequently vote for women and POC. They like “small government”, but also have some of the highest paid government workers in the country. I just don’t see much similarity.

I think the comparison to Texas is more apt because they’re both conservative petro states with center left suburban sprawl cities.

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[-] krayj@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago

I've always heard that Alberta is the 'Texas of Canada' (presumably for the oil & being politically conservative). But since Canada only has 10 provinces, I guess that would mean each province needs to represent 5 different US states.

If Alabama and Texas are two of them, what are the other 3 for Alberta?

[-] dom@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

New mexico, Utah, not sure about the other

Most of the mid-west would be split between Saskatchewan and winnipeg

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Rafael Cruz is from Alberta, so even got enough crazy to export.

[-] Kyle@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

I would agree with this answer for the Zeitgeist of how Canadians see Albertans from a stereotypical way, and this is true for our rural population. But politically, Ontario takes the Alabama cake for voting in so many Ford's so many times. How do you guys keep doing this?

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[-] cs127@lemmy.sdf.org 69 points 1 year ago

Iranian here.

All of them.

[-] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de 61 points 1 year ago

That's the Saarland for Germany or some parts of Bayern (Bavaria) depending on who you ask

[-] peter@feddit.uk 47 points 1 year ago

Ask anyone in the UK and they'll tell you the next county over from them

[-] christophski@feddit.uk 21 points 1 year ago
[-] Globulart@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I'm from Somerset which would be a classic answer but Norfolk is still considered the one county that saves us from being the goto joke inbreds.

It's a load of bs anyway... I'm barely related to my wife at all!

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[-] T1000@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago
[-] Ashiette@lemmy.one 31 points 1 year ago

The north, in France. Lille is the rumoured capital of cousin-inbreeding.

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Les Ch’tis

[-] greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 year ago

In the Netherlands, its gotta be Urk.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago
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[-] Mananasi@feddit.nl 20 points 1 year ago

In the Netherlands it's Urk, although it's not a province but a municipality

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago
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[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Sardinia is something between Alabama and Scotland (🐑)

[-] T1000@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

You misspelt England.

[-] matto@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago
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[-] Persen@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Every other balkan country except the one i live in.

[-] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago

In Australia it's Tasmania

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago

For the Netherlands: Katwijk, even had a genetic disease named after it.

https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katwijkse_ziekte

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago

Probably Saskatchewan.

It's not Alberta, right guys? Right?

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[-] astreus@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Loving all the Scots embracing the United Kingdom in this thread by describing England as a part of their country 😉

[-] Pogbom@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

If they're gonna be forced to be part of the UK, they can also enjoy the privilege of shitting on it like the rest do.

[-] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

Either Skåne or anything far up north in Sweden.

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[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

EVERY SINGLE ONE. Marrying cousins is more than common, its prrtty much standard.

[-] manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 13 points 1 year ago

Mexico: Nuevo León (specifically Monterrey)

[-] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago
[-] InactiveBeef@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Speaking only on the incest stereotype, Spanish Wells in the Bahamas. They’re known for strictly dating and marrying other fellow islanders, which at this point is basically one large family.

Edit to remove the double “at this point”

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[-] mrsgreenpotato@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

Podlasie in Poland, definitely. My friend's parents have both the same maiden name despite not being closely related. Their whole village has basically the same surname.

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[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

South mountain in Nova Scotia, Canada. There was (still is?) a family (the Goler clan) famous for poverty, sexual abuse, and inbreeding. A bunch of them were arrested for sexual abuse in the 1980s. Rumor has it, they inspired the Xfiles episode "Home".

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[-] iByteABit@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

The south. It's always the south.

The question is: does it flip after passing the equator or is the law universal for both halves of the globe?

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[-] TvanBuuren@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago

The Netherlands? Urk.

[-] Grimble@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Alberta, and definitely traces of it in the Maritimes kkkanada

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[-] terny@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

In Costa Rica its a subdivision of a province, San Carlos. Very famous for incest (not being taboo). In the costa rican subreddit there was a long thread about it not too long ago. The thread mostly contained anecdotal but has interesting comments; a doctor that sees lots of teenage pregnancy cases, a story of a priest that refused to continue marrying cousins in a small town.

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