"national mentality" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the collective attitudes, beliefs, and values shared by the people of a particular nation or country. Example: The national mentality of Japan places a strong emphasis on respect, harmony, and hard work. In this sentence, "national mentality" highlights the cultural and societal aspects that are commonly associated with the Japanese people as a whole.
They just don't dominate the national mentality the way they do in some other countries.
Progress will continue to be blocked until the national mentality of corruption is also broken.
Citing Kazakhstan's "national mentality," one lawmaker last year called for legislation that would classify homosexuals as "criminals against humanity".
And yet sadly it seems we're stuck with a national mentality where only novelty value cuts any ice, and where anyone wanting coverage of any kind has to resort to quirky attention-seeking.
"I don't believe things are hard-wired into the national mentality," he says.
"Feeling unhappy is part of the national mentality here," said Agaron Adibekian, an Armenian sociologist interviewed recently by the Associated Press.
We are witnessing a federation without a state, but how can it be cohesive and effective without competence to override the nation state, to constrain as well as enlarge national mentalities; and how can it be legitimate without a we-feeling and a sense of finalité that can provide the necessary foundation for collective European decision-making?
Fascism shouldn't be "ascribed to local causes, national mentalities, or historical backgrounds," he came to believe.
Previous German governments, he said, had displayed "greater political sensitivity and a post-national mentality".
I fear that the German government, including its social democratic faction, have gambled away in one night all the political capital that a better Germany had accumulated in half a century – and by "better" I mean a Germany characterised by greater political sensitivity and a post-national mentality.
But "if we don't have to think so much about the US as a threat, that would facilitate a public debate that is not framed within the national security mentality".
