Sentence examples for eastern mentality from inspiring English sources
According to Suzuki, the basic characteristic of the Eastern mentality may be found in its emphasis on nonduality, while the Western spirit, as embodied in modern sciences, is based upon dualistic distinctions.
On the other hand, the assumption of a rigid mentality in eastern Germany is not consistent with other empirical analyses that focus on eastern German attitudes and behavioral changes after unification (Heckhausen 1994; Struck 2003; Diewald 2000).
Most importantly, he says, Austrians understand their eastern neighbours' easy-going mentality.
"It was a different mentality, it was an Eastern European mentality," he said.
For Feuchtwanger, Süß was a forerunner that symbolized the evolution in European philosophy and cultural mentality, representing a shift towards Eastern philosophy, from Nietzsche to Buddha, from "the old to the new covenant".
The authors go as far as inferring an eastern German "resistance to modernization," a "barrier" to modernization, and a "backwardness" of mentalities from their qualitative study in a rural region of eastern Germany.
