It is based on the World Values Survey. I prefer Hofstede's Dimensions of National Culture. My dissertation is be a case study on consumer language between business enterprise owners and foreigners in South Korea.

I live in South Korea which is high on secular rational values and low on survival values and came from the US which is fairly high on self-expression and low on traditional values.

But even one of the other English speaking countries would be better suited than now.

Or Indonesia more than the USA.

Pretty sure I'd be happy with any of the Scandi countries though.

Is there something about being cold and dark for 6 months of the year?

I hate cold weather dammit!

Short growing seasons would certainly force people to work together every year, since the "I got mine, screw y'all" attitude would have been a pretty effective recipe for creating empty villages. Do that long enough and it's bound to have an impact on the culture.

.....having to stay indoors on cold frosty days and nights for half the year made it so one read a lot of books, and interacted with others on a more talk-y, idea-y level than laying around in the sun with a daiquiri.

But it's nice to know that the land of Duck Dynasty and Kardashians kicks Canada's ass on such objective criteria as "traditional values"

which contains India, the second most populous country in the world.

Is that an oversight?