Personal Values
As you travel through life you find differing core values  between the people's of different cultures.
Without generalizing it seems that countries with societies based on the principles of democracy, have values that treasure life, property and human rights. Countries where dictatorships or totalitarianism have been the predominant form of rule tend in my opinion to place lower worth on the same tenets.
That is notto say within each group there are not those who place lower or higher values respectively.