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RE: Punctuality: How Late Is Too Late?
I was interested the post, then it fell into place when i saw the translation into Spanish! The age old conflict between uk thinking and Spanish perhaps? Sometimes I think timekeeping is about confidence. In Spain, where people are generally much more communal and less likely to be individualists, they have faith and belief that the person will turn up. It doesnt matter to be late, it will happen. In the Uk, we have a lot less faith in each other so have a pessimistic attitude that the person will turn up and everything will run smoothely. Personally I am always early. That is not a great characteristic either!!
Thanks for your thoughts on this topic. I'd never really thought about the confidence aspect before. It's a really good point.
the reason for posting in spanish was simply to try to expand the conversation to more people, with the intention that with more feedback I might learn more. Personally I feel we are too quick to stereotype people from different countries and cultures. The journalists' opinions on the original article were very much along the lines of...I'm from Nicaragua and we are all like this or I'm from Japan and we are all like this.