Crab mentality (sometimes also described as "crab in a bucket syndrome") describes a way of thinking best described by the phrase "if I can't have it, neither can you." The metaphor refers to a pot of crabs. Singly, the crabs could easily escape from the pot, but instead, they...

I first read about Filipino crab mentality when I was freshman in college in the mid 1970s. At that time I did not understand what crab mentality was all about.

And although crab behaviour should not in any way be analogous to human behaviour, I can think of many instances where it is.

"It's a desperate move and talangka mentality behind these charges against me."; ... According to Revilla, even DPWH Secretary Simeon Datumanon justified the lending of the vehicle to his office in

Sporting a cut that required 18 stitches beneath his right brow from his March 16 brawl in Las Vegas, ... “It’s our fellow Filipinos who doubt my win and someone is even calling for an investigation.

I’m not voting for Obama. I’m not voting at all because at the heart of it, I happen to think the whole election process is a farce held every four years so that the ... Unfounded diatribes aside,

While it is one of the meatiest foods known to man, a crab has some very odd characteristics -- ... Hence, the expression – "crab" mentality. It is like saying, "if I can't have it, neither can you."

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Chris described NZ's tall-poppy syndrome himself some years ago as the "crab bucket mentality."

Brief and Straightforward Guide: What is the Crab Mentality? ... When someone has a crab mentality, it means that they are unwilling to allow someone to get out of a situation, or to get ahead.