Nobody seems happy, though many counsel a fatalistic acceptance, as ameliorating the situation seems impossible.

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But this kind of disregard for personal safety is also symptomatic of a fatalistic attitude for which Filipinos often mock themselves.

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Perhaps they do have a fatalistic view, that they're going to get cancer because - or heart disease because many of their family members did.

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"They have skills and ambitions - but they have a fatalistic sense that there are barriers that make it pointless to try in the first place, " says Prof Chapman.

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His skill at word-play, coupled with a self-destructive and fatalistic attitude to life (in a Russian intellectual, no less) lands him a job first as a copywriter, and then as something more sinister.

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People without a college degree felt a lot more confused, helpless and fatalistic than people who had graduated college - so really suggesting that there's an educational component here.

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Yeah, well, since the study found that people with college degrees were less likely to be fatalistic, might that reflect the fact that they're probably a little wealthier and probably have better access to health care?

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