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• Avos (Russia)
  | definition =A ‘lackadaisical’ attitude to chance in the world, used in both economic and non-economic contexts ...| FSU]] – [[:Category: Uncertainty| Uncertainty]] – [[:Category: Attitude| Attitude]]
  11 KB (1,631 words) - 20:54, 15 May 2019
• Poclon (Wallachia, Romania)
  ...giving money or other goods to a superior in order to obtain a favourable attitude or various advantages; additionally, it meant taxes and bribes. ...plunder of the country by the Tatar troops, or simply securing favourable attitude of the Ottoman and Tatar dignitaries, Wallachian princes used to send them
  8 KB (1,122 words) - 08:29, 22 May 2023
• Skipping (England)
  ...plicable when a bin is located on private property). The prevailing social attitude towards garbage is that it represents objects of no value, thus cases of cr
  8 KB (1,222 words) - 20:33, 17 May 2019
• Agashka (Kazakhstan)
  ...valence of nepotism and clientelism, as well as a critical or self-mocking attitude toward the Kazakhs themselves. A popular saying, ‘''Bez agashki ty kakash
  9 KB (1,241 words) - 20:34, 15 May 2019
• Omertà (Italy)
  ...own business will live a hundred years and will live a better life.’ This attitude, entrenched as it is in popular culture, may or may not have anything to do
  10 KB (1,544 words) - 14:12, 22 May 2019
• Torpil (Turkey)
  ...spondents, who initially were highly critical of ''torpil'', changed their attitude towards it after realising that their life stories revealed their use of pe
  10 KB (1,422 words) - 14:57, 23 May 2019
• Informality in Ukraine and beyond: one name, different flavours...with a cheer for the Global Encyclopaedia of Informality
  ...us' against the (bad) state and usually justified or understandable as the attitude by those not directly affected by it ...us' against the (bad) state and usually justified or understandable as the attitude by those not directly affected by it
  25 KB (3,793 words) - 15:48, 2 April 2019
• A molestar a otro lado (Guatemala)
  ...e Spanish began colonizing the country nearly five hundred years ago. This attitude is common towards potential customers of modest means, but is more frequent
  11 KB (1,602 words) - 14:47, 16 April 2021
• Mukhayyam (Occupied Palestinian Territories)
  ...ef>). We may accordingly conceive the camps’ informality both as a broader attitude vis-à-vis public/private space, and as an act of transformation and approp
  11 KB (1,547 words) - 15:50, 29 September 2019
• Aploksne (Latvia)
  ...he waiting time for a medical examination or encouraging a more benevolent attitude from medical personnel). A content-analysis of media articles from 2005 to
  11 KB (1,666 words) - 13:07, 26 July 2019
• Samozakhvat (Kyrgyzstan)
  ...ve bad reputation and tend to be viewed as criminals or law-breakers. This attitude has resulted in the state neglecting the welfare of the Bishkek squatter se
  10 KB (1,396 words) - 15:50, 29 September 2019
• Khaltura (USSR)
  ...s named in different languages reflects the culture of the country and its attitude to labour. Within the English-speaking world, the closest word to ''khaltur
  11 KB (1,635 words) - 08:33, 10 October 2020
• Vetterliwirtschaft/copinage (Switzerland)
  problematic, and has since led to a far more critical attitude towards such practices.
  11 KB (1,542 words) - 14:07, 30 April 2020
• Organic solidarity and informality – two irreconcilable concepts?
  .... We need to point out, however, that public mistrust is not an irrational attitude, but rather an instrumentally rational social know- ledge that is deeply ro
  12 KB (1,670 words) - 10:53, 3 January 2019
• Rushyldyq (Kazakhstan)
  ...tively). The following quotation from a respondent illustrates the general attitude of Kazakhstani people to interviews:
  12 KB (1,580 words) - 13:43, 23 May 2019
• Pabirčenje (Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  ...sm and potential sanctions. The authorities display a similarly ambivalent attitude: on the one hand, the state is committed to prosecuting cases of theft, but
  12 KB (1,734 words) - 14:14, 22 May 2019
• Caciquismo (Mexico)
  ...t or political positions. ''Caciquismo'' reinforces itself by a collective attitude of social consent and cooperation. Although ''caciquismo'' is an undemocrat
  11 KB (1,442 words) - 15:01, 5 November 2019
• Selektivni abortus / tuđa večera (Montenegro)
  Son preference tends to be linked to the overall attitude towards women and girls that is formed by patriarchal, patrilineal and patr
  11 KB (1,549 words) - 18:04, 25 November 2020
• Kvartirniki (Russia)
  ...nformal methods of expressing themselves in private. Figes highlights this attitude in his work The Whisperers, noting that ‘the art of wearing masks was per
  12 KB (1,651 words) - 14:02, 21 January 2025
• Kelin (Central Asia)
  ...September, https://cabar.asia/en/do-movies-like-kelinka-sabina-reflect-an-attitude-of-society-towards-women-or-form-it
  12 KB (1,614 words) - 19:22, 25 November 2022

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