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submitted 2 years ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

In terms of having the "marrying cousins" stereotype.

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[-] bradv@lemmy.ca 107 points 2 years ago
[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 38 points 2 years 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.

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

Ya I would agree likely no Alabama equivalent, but I would say the closest would maybe be Saskatchewan?

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[-] krayj@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 15 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Kyle@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years 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?

[-] manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 11 points 2 years ago

I’m not Canadian, but I had a brief fling with a girl from Alberta. She had just gotten out of an 8 year relationship with a crackhead (her words, not mine) and she herself had just been released from rehab. I think I know exactly what you mean somehow

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[-] cs127@lemmy.sdf.org 66 points 2 years ago

Iranian here.

All of them.

[-] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de 66 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 37 points 2 years ago

Bavaria is more like Texas and Saxony is Florida, the crazy swamp part, not the rich.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

What do Bavaria and Texas families have in common?

Something something cream

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Weird hats, weird music and a dangerous border in the South that must be secured at all cost

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago

And dog whistling fascists everywhere.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago

Tasmania for Australia. At least they are on their own island.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 26 points 2 years ago

Tasmania, reputedly home of the diamond-shaped family tree

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

From one of the songs in the video game Redneck Rampage, "My family tree's a STUMP."

[-] peter@feddit.uk 48 points 2 years ago

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

[-] christophski@feddit.uk 21 points 2 years ago
[-] Globulart@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years 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 37 points 2 years ago
[-] Ashiette@lemmy.one 32 points 2 years ago

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

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Les Ch’tis

[-] greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 2 years ago

In the Netherlands, its gotta be Urk.

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[-] Treczoks@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago
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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago
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[-] Delascas@feddit.uk 10 points 2 years ago

Hello my fellow Scot!

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[-] Mananasi@feddit.nl 20 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] Persen@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Every other balkan country except the one i live in.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 17 points 2 years 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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[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

Sardinia is something between Alabama and Scotland (🐑)

[-] T1000@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

You misspelt England.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 years ago

Probably Saskatchewan.

It's not Alberta, right guys? Right?

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[-] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 years ago
[-] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 years ago

In Australia it's Tasmania

[-] manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 14 points 2 years ago

Mexico: Nuevo León (specifically Monterrey)

[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] Whisper06@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago
[-] TvanBuuren@feddit.nl 12 points 2 years ago

The Netherlands? Urk.

[-] matto@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago
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[-] astreus@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years 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 2 years 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.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years 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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[-] gon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Portuguese here. I don't think we have that at all. I guess rural areas in general get that wrap a little bit but not really.

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[-] SaanichGuy@mstdn.ca 10 points 2 years ago

@vis4valentine nota close equivalent but Alberta would be high on the list

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