It is the response of secular individualism and it is writ large in our contemporary British way of life. I do not belittle this answer and all the individual endeavour, achievements and anguish that flow from it. But I do not believe it to be the truth. A walk through the streets and squares of that town contrasts sharply with a walk through London, Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester. In Valladolid the sense of a common view and purpose in life is tangible.
People instinctively seem to belong together.
Of course, the sunshine helps. But so does a light of a different sort. My faith is that we all share a common humanity, a single human nature. From that belief can flow the quest for its essential values. These rest on the principles, the truth, which gives shape to human living, both for individuals and societies.