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legendary_zell posted...

Everything you said is a cultural thing. That's the meaning you've been taught to place behind punctuality. In other cultures, it doesn't have that meaning. It's more of a loose flowing thing. A meeting that starts at 9 will have people show up at 9:30, and that's just fine. No one feels disrespected, it's a built in assumption when the meeting is made. Life moves at a different pace. Relationships are more important than punctuality.

I know this because I'm from one of those cultures. People assume universality of meaning where it doesn't exist. I know it's cultural because I had to learn one and discard the other. But the meaning here is to meet specific ends, we are much more concerned with efficiency than we are offended that people are placing demands on our time.

Yeah, this says it well. Idk how it varies by race in the US, but there's a reason people talk about "Island time" in Hawaii for instance.

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