On the basis of their findings from the World Values Survey, Inglehart and Baker (2000) explain that as nations undergo the process of industrialization and modernization, attitudes and values shift away from concerns about physical and economic security to world-views that are increasingly rational, tolerant, and trusting. Instead of worrying about how to ful- fill basic needs like food, shelter, and safety, people become increasingly interested in issues related to subjective well-being, quality of life, and self-expression (Inglehart, 1977). With this new orientation, people can more easily afford to tolerate new ideas and non-normative behaviors like homosexuality. Health and safety, which once may have been threatened by things that were unfamiliar, increasingly improve.