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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.
I laughed out loud
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?
That's the Saarland for Germany or some parts of Bayern (Bavaria) depending on who you ask
Bavaria is more like Texas and Saxony is Florida, the crazy swamp part, not the rich.
What do Bavaria and Texas families have in common?
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Iranian here.
All of them.
Ask anyone in the UK and they'll tell you the next county over from them
Yep. Norfolk, full of em.
The north, in France. Lille is the rumoured capital of cousin-inbreeding.
For the Netherlands: Katwijk, even had a genetic disease named after it.
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In the Netherlands it's Urk, although it's not a province but a municipality
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What is Alabama?
Loving all the Scots embracing the United Kingdom in this thread by describing England as a part of their country π
The Netherlands? Urk.
Probably Saskatchewan.
It's not Alberta, right guys? Right?
EVERY SINGLE ONE. Marrying cousins is more than common, its prrtty much standard.
India?
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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In Australia it's Tasmania
West Vlaanderen. They even talk like they have a hot potato in their mouth!
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I don't know. There is multiple possibilities here. Maybe Appenzell Innerrhoden where you're at a low degree cousin of one of the members of the council at the head of the Canton. AI has just 16k inhabitants.
But if you ask a French speaker, it will be Jura. It remember me once I went there. I saw a young woman not older than 25. She was definitely not rich. She already had 3 pregnancies and was outside in a cold foggy morning with the 3 kids walking around the small town. The region has the reputation of alcoholism too.
If marrying cousins is the criteria, it's probably somewhere like Leeds in the UK, not because of any British culture of cousin marriage but the high Asian populations there that have a lot of arranged marriage between cousins.
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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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Lived in AL for many years. Never met a single person married to their cousin, never heard anyone mention cousins getting married. Stupid stereotype.
And yet, so accurate.
The fact we have an idiom "sent to Coventry" meaning to deliberately ostracise someone should tell you all you need to know.
I went to uni in that city; there isn't enough money in all the world to make me go back there. City of 300k people with over 3k homeless. Utter monstrosity of brutalist architecture (the university library is based on a panopticon prison, I kid you not). And the ring road! Taking your life in your hand just merging into it!
Absolutely insane amount of crime, with one of the highest rates of child sexual abuse in the country (for context, it's crime index is about 20% higher than London's). And I've never seen so many street walkers in my life! Plus they charge, I am not joking, Β£20 a go.
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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".
Define "Alabama", please.
Probably meaning backwards, highly conservative, people from there are seen as "hicks" or "red knecks," have an abnormally high rate of incest and child marriage compared to the rest of the country, and any person part of a marginalized group would probably want to avoid.
Drug addicts would be Porto. The city was pretty clean for decades but CoViD and an asshole of a city mayor effed things up, to the point they want to pass city ordnances that go against national law. Won't fly; pure populism, good for sound bites.
Hicks, incest and child marriage not really a thing here. Yet, we do have a strange saying about cousins that I can't really translate. The gist implies cousins tend to be an understanable first opportunity to explore but not one to carry through as a true romantic relationship.
Conservatives, all across the territory, mostly on rural areas but not hardcore. But we are a liberal nation as a whole.
Lisbon is a bit under pressure because of high tourist influx but you don't get to see violence towards non-nationals, except for rare events.
This is a pretty interesting question.
"Dan denk ik aan Brabant."
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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