He put this tension down to an over-bureaucratic system that crushes initiative and encourages passivity, and called for a shift in mentalities.
Most westerners doing business with the Chinese are convinced that they are confronting inscrutable mentalities.
It merely strengthened old mentalities and deep-seated beliefs.
Histories of ideas ReprintsThe focus of "Classes and Culture" is "the fundamental mentalities and structures of English society from the end of the first world war until the mid-1950s".
The irony is that while Mr Obama and Mr Medvedev have pledged "to move beyond cold-war mentalities and chart a fresh start", the central (and safest) topic of talks is nuclear-arms control, just as it was in the 1980s.
AK has rammed through laws to punish negligent employers, but Ahmet Davutoglu, the prime minister, concedes that to improve safety "mentalities must change".In Esenyurt danger lurks in a high-voltage line near a cluster of new high-rise blocks.
Argentina's tax superintendent, Carlos Silvani, has his work cut out for him.A former adviser to the IMF, Mr Silvani has kept himself in the headlines since he got his new job last year, by widening its boundaries: he aims to change mentalities, not just collect money.
It also reflected his continuing interest in another preoccupation of the Annales school, "mentalities," which Duby defined as "the shifting set of images and unargued certitudes to which the members of a given group refer".
It replaced the study of leaders with the lives of ordinary people and supplanted the hallowed trio of politics, diplomacy, and wars with inquiries into climate, demography, agriculture, commerce, technology, transportation, and communication, as well as social groups and mentalities.
The year 1947 was the final year of modern Romania: liberal political and economic structures and individualist mentalities nurtured during the preceding century gave way to a collectivist model of development and an alien ideology.
And when the road towards appropriation isn't being led by celebrities, it's brandished in the form of mentalities and hashtags like #WhiteGirlsStayWinning.
