As far as I understand despite my limited knowledge, here in Venezuela we must adapt to the prevailing mentality and social order. Therefore, an individual must live among opportunism, poverty, manipulation and superficiality. It might be a very characteristic Latino idiosyncrasy to behave as in the book "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel García Márquez when it comes to dealing with delicate situations. Everybody knows what's happening, but nobody raises his voice and even if somebody did, nobody would support him. Only enlightenment through education could end the ignorance that is a scourge on our people, from which many other problems arise. However, it's unlikely to expect a government to propose to spread values that threaten its own interests, because it's better for them to keep society ignorant in order to manipulate it with ease.

Westerly winds are prevailing winds that blow from the west toward the east.

Prevailing wisdom suggests that people exposed to people who are sick with the virus should be tested for illness themselves.

During the Age of Sail, the strong prevailing winds of the Roaring Forties propelled ships across the Pacific, often at breakneck speed.

Early commerce to the Americas relied on the trade winds—the prevailing easterly winds that circle the Earth near the equator.

On either side of the Equator the prevailing winds blow in opposite directions. Shifting of the boundary north and south creates the monsoon.

Bad cold is prevailing throughout the country.

It might be discreet of you to bend a little to the prevailing wind.

It had to be dealt with under the prevailing conditions, which was not easy.

The prevailing view among biologists is that non-native species should be presumed to be destructive unless proven otherwise.