In the articles "Social Time: The Heartbeat of Culture", it said 'Formal "clock time" may be a standartd on which the world agrees, but "social time," the heartbeat of society, is someting else again.' This is also what am i thinking now. Since we have "Central Standard Time" to unify different local's time soze, but we do not have any standard to formulate our pace of life. Different country or location have different "time sences". For me, Hong Kong 's speed is much faster than Binghamton.
When i live in Hong Kong, everyone are running race with time, because in their mind, time is priceless, nothing can instead of it. Hence, they are so care about the time management. On the other hand, people who live in binghamton are pay more attention on their life quatility than the efficient of life. They are not really care the distriubtion of their time, since except the students, most of the residence are retired. They have a lot of time, and don't know how to use it, that's why the speed of the city is much lower than Hong Kong.
For example, in Hong Kong's Macdonald restaurant, the receptionist can not take the order more than 60 seconds, otherwise, Macdonald restaurant will give the customer a gift card for next visit. However, in Binghamton, for a 3 people's line, the receptionist use more than 15 mintues to serve those 3 customer. It is almost 5 times of Hong Kong's. In this example, we can see the different of the "time sences" between Hong Kong and Binghamton.
In average, Binghamton's pace of life is much lower than Hong Kong, but it just the average. In some specific case, Binghamton also can become a very efficiency town, such as our ESL 210 Class in Binghamton University. In this class, we are not only have the deadline of the date, we still have deadline of the time. So can we say that all people who live in Binghamton are lie fallow, maybe this is not ture. I think all my classmates will agreed with my opinion.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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I agree with Binghamton time sense is very lower than average. However I think it is not only Binghamton has slow time sense but also whole America tend to live slowly. Similar with Hong kong, Seoul is very sensitive with time. If person were late on appointment, he would lose confidence from other people.
Furthermore, your experience of Macdonald restaurant is exactly what I thought. I think the reason is low competition. Although the faculty don't work hardly, they could get payment.
I strongly agree with your writing. Japan, your country, Hong Kong, and my country, South Korea, are so crowd and everyone is always busy. Especially Korean people really don’t like to wait something. For example, I don’t want to wait for my friends and I can’t sit and wait until the food comes. As you said about Macdonald, I really agree with you. I went to Macdonald in the Queens, New York, there are about 15 people working but they are so slow and customers are always waiting on the long line.
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