Mentality
1. The thought processes characteristic of an individual or group: ethos, mind, mindset, psyche, psychology.
Idioms: what makes someone tick. See thoughts.
2. The faculty of thinking, reasoning, and acquiring and applying knowledge: brain (often used in plural),
brainpower, intellect, intelligence, mind, sense, understanding, wit. Slang smart (used in plural).
See ability/inability, thoughts.
3. a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations
brain: mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"
4. A mindset, in decision theory and general systems theory, refers to a set of assumptions, methods or notations held by one or more people or groups of people which is so established that it creates a powerful incentive within these people or groups to continue to adopt or accept prior behaviours ..
Mindsets of politics
Most theorists consider that the key responsibility of an embedded power group is to challenge the assumptions which comprise the group's own mindset. According to these commentators, power groups which fail to review or revise their mindsets with sufficient regularity cannot hold power indefinitely, as a single mindset is unlikely
to possess the flexibility and adaptability needed to address all future events.
Mentality of Taosug
1. ALL THESE years, we never have understood the Tausug mentality. Tausugs are people of Sulu.
2. There are three major Muslem tribes of Mindanao . The Tausugs who inhabit Sulu, the Maranaws who inhabit the two Lanao provinces, and the Maguindanao who inhabit Cotabato.
3. The Maguindanaos are farmers brought up by the fertile plains of Cotabato. The Maranaws are businessmen, more known as the best Moslem traders.
4. And the Tausugs are more known as the warriors. If you go through the history of Mindanao wars,they always involved Tausugs.
The Moro Rebellion was an armed military conflict between Muslim Filipino revolutionary groups and the United States which took place in the Philippines between 1899 to 1913, following the Spanish-American War of 1898.
The word "Moro" was a term for Muslims who lived in the southern Philippines, an area that includes Mindanao and its neighboring islands. The Moro Rebellion is referred to as the second phase of the Philippine-American War.
Modern Muslim rebels of the southern Philippines see the Moro Rebellion a continuing struggle against foreign rule, Christian influences, the Spanish, Americans, and the Philippine government.
But until today, there is no sign when the fight will over. Citizen suffering contiuesnesly day by day, even though they’re Muslim brothers rule most of the province/town/city/state in Mindanao.
My big question is, what we’re fighting for?
