Nikolai Travkin: "Here you have a mentality"

"I did not look at himself and ended up at an event where representatives of different parties talked about their visions about the future of Russia. They painted a different future. There was only one thing - the statement of each speaker that Russians expect happiness only if their party was at the head of the process of transformation. And the place that they meant under the words" at the head of the process "was called the State Duma. More firmly to gain a foothold in it and was mainly a conversation, ”writes a former politician on Facebook .

"Most often used the word" mentality ". Moreover, those who were already in the Duma, the mentality of the people praised and swore that they would accept a number of additional laws that prevent this mentality to spoil this mentality. Only the people praised in the Duma, but they expressed deep regrets in the event of his mentality and promised to seriously work on his Duma. improvement ...

The mentality is a thing, of course, serious. But is it so rooted in the depths of the historical consciousness of people that it is extremely difficult to change it?

No, it’s easy. History present many examples when people, getting into other rules of life, quickly changed habits, habits and everything else, understood by the word "mentality". Separated Germany or Russia before and after 1917.

You can not even go far, but take today's Koreans. The people are alone. However, in North Korea, respect for the beloved leader to see any or expensive. Almost like ours. And in South Korea with the president, they are completely unacceptable to our Russian self -awareness. The court was arranged, 24 years prison were soldered and, in addition, a fine of $ 18 million was discharged.

Here you have a mentality. "