Mentality

It is the particular environment that has shaped the Japanese mentality.

As in the previously mentioned case with the farmer, the mentality of contraception and family planning seems unnatural.

Having a competitive mentality can give rise to negative emotions.

She has an extreme colonial mentality. She is crazy for Spanish culture.

As far as I understand despite my limited knowledge, here in Venezuela we must adapt to the prevailing mentality and social order. Therefore, an individual must live among opportunism, poverty, manipulation and superficiality. It might be a very characteristic Latino idiosyncrasy to behave as in the book "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel García Márquez when it comes to dealing with delicate situations. Everybody knows what's happening, but nobody raises his voice and even if somebody did, nobody would support him. Only enlightenment through education could end the ignorance that is a scourge on our people, from which many other problems arise. However, it's unlikely to expect a government to propose to spread values that threaten its own interests, because it's better for them to keep society ignorant in order to manipulate it with ease.

Tom's parents instilled in him a glass-half-full mentality.

At any time in history, in any country you can think of, a child grows up borrowing from parents' values. There are some who would point out that the kind of mentality towards education that some women called "education mama" have, is actually emotionally scarring for the child.

Layla started to develop this "me-against-the-world" mentality.

Your life is the echo of your mentality.

I hate those bands that just conform to some punk-like mentality without thought.