I'll explain it.
My Mother is Brazilian and my father was Dutch-American. My father was a genius-IQ CEO of some huge company who fell to depression and became an alcoholic, who then married my mother. My mother is the uneducated son of a farming mogul in Brazil who once owned half of the entire region where my mother's home city is before it became, well, a city. My grandfather was the first of 3 individuals to have telephones within 6 hours (by car, today) of the community in any direction. Back then all this modern scientific stuff was like a bad joke and all of it was vehemently opposed. Well, today the old farming community is a massive, well-funded, economically-booming city that commands our side of the state but many of the people still have the same mentality.
I swear to every God of Mankind that on my block, Rua Esmeralda in Governador Valadares, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, there are, I !@#$ YOU NOT, 12 bars and 17 churches. (Just keep in mind most countries don't have grid set-ups like America and a 'block' can be friggin huge)
Brazilians are fun-loving people who don't take anything seriously - except religion. We take religious REALLY seriously.
Then again, the Dutch are the same way... Either reckless abandon or super-traditional, heh.
