The poor tend to have a passive relationship to fate: their lack of self-determination makes them far more likely to accommodate problems than to solve them (they are, by extension, far less likely to commit suicide than are the empowered).
This idea is expounded upon by Dr. Daniel Saengwichai (1998) who argues that the philosophy of mai pen rai "has implanted deep within the people a sense of passive resignation to fate, thus impairing their ability to counteract the problems and to seek for solutions" (para. 2).
But there are moments that cry out for self-assertion, when a passive bowing to fate or a mechanical decision out of deference or convenience is treachery, because it forfeits dignity for ease".
But they also provide specific and surprising shadings of character that make Tony and Maria at least partly responsible for their fate instead of passive victims.
A host of reforms in planning, council housing, homebuilding, benefits and more are designed to make councils masters of their own fate rather than passive recipients of central-government largesse.
In fact, citizens were urged by Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong not to be "passive bystanders in their own fate" but to debate issues "with reason, passion and conviction".
Whites in Ms. Walker's art often seem passive by comparison, but racial fates are intertwined.
It's an unusual dystopian fiction in which a protagonist is so passive in his acceptance of his fate, but Simón exhibits virtually no curiosity about such decisions or who the anonymous authorities that administer them might be.
Following her existentialist convictions, Beauvoir insists that even when women abdicate their freedom, they do so as agents responsible for their own destinies, not merely as passive victims following a developmentally determined fate.
Passive aggression or passiveness.
