11.  Rio has become a mecca for homosexuals from more conservative parts of Brazil and Latin America and the city is actively catering to homosexual commerce.

12.  Rural north Florida is the most conservative part of the state.

13.  The practice of bridal gifts is illegal but believed to be widely practiced in some conservative parts of Turkey.

14.  Women in Kabul have traditionally been freer and allowed more leeway than in other more conservative parts of Afghanistan and have vehemently defended their rights under earlier regimes.