Interesting that you say that, for two reasons. One, our last Russian user used to complain from time to time how many of his friends and family members take on a quasi-fatalistic world view. As in, they'd have many things in their life that they complained about that's easily fixable, but wouldn't ever get around to fixing. Two, I'm starting to notice a similar attitude starting to crop up in some of my social circles and I wonder if there might be an underlying reason behind it. I'm thinking economics. For example, easily fixable things aren't fixable if you don't have the money to fix them, so you learn to put up with them. Soon, this attitude starts creeping into other areas of your life. Relationships, personal health, etc.My groupmate once noted that Russian people "like to suffer".