A way of life characterized by dependency on state benefits.
依赖文化（指生活依赖政府补助的生活方式）；社会福利依附
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It points up the country's continuing dependency culture which afflicts all social classes, namely that wherever there is a problem we tend to look to government or someone/something else to deliver the solution or change.
Yet the contrary twin to this dependency culture is a growing desire to become self-reliant.
Another new analysis, carried out by Glasgow City Council, shows that Glaswegians are trapped in a dependency culture.
But prevalent opinion had it that the poor law had been a bad thing for England, encouraging the growth of a dependency culture.
Far from rolling back the state, privatisation institutionalises the corporate dependency culture.
The subsidy system is mainly based on how much land or how many animals you have and it has created a dependency culture.
He further reckoned that the allocation of land with so much financial support from the state was creating a dependency culture and ‘takes away initiative’ in the farming community.
Yet the same government also fuelled the dependency culture with its incapacity benefits system.
The important thing was to get the community on board because we don't want to create a dependency culture.
Donors are left frustrated by the failure of interventions to achieve desired goals and by the growth in affected regions of a dependency culture that saps economic and cultural strength.
But, for business, the issue is how the enterprise culture can displace the dependency culture.
However an inability to let go of our hopes and desires leads men to seek artificial solutions from the pharmaceutical industry, breeding a dangerous and risk-laden drug dependency culture.
Some social watchers believe it's creating a dependency culture rather than independently-oriented teenagers, where ‘Mummy and Daddy will provide indefinitely’.
This electoral demography provides an unassailable base for a dependency culture that dominates the political process.
Though they have nothing they contrive, somehow, to keep their self respect, the very antithesis of the dependency culture which has grown up in our own country.
The extent of the country's dependency culture has been revealed with research showing 70% of working-age people in one of the country's most deprived areas are receiving state benefits for ill health.
These observations are painfully correct, as are the concerns raised about our dependency culture and the class-war scores undertaken by too many of our politicians.
It creates a high dependency culture that tends to undermine local economic growth and threaten local services.
We are trying to move them away from the dependency culture and help encourage these people to be self-sufficient.
The 1996 federal welfare reform law struck a massive blow against the dependency culture.