Today, time conception is very different among societies. In my own experience Puerto Rico, which is my place of origin has a weird conception about time. I believe that geographical position makes an enormous influence on this issue. Puerto Rico is an island located in the Caribbean ocean and has a population about 4 million people. Puerto Ricans are very "tropical" people. What I would illustrate with this information is the following. A big proportion of this society are not very stress about time. People in this country are usually very unstressed and does not hurry them self if they have to get late to somewhere. This is an issue which depend on each person.
Moreover, we can experience this issue by going to any place around the island. If we use as an example stores we can see that cashiers take their time to give attention to consumers. Is something that we have to improve but at the same time shows that they are not hurried to charge you. These people are giving you time to think if you really want that or not.
On the other hand, scholars and business people have a different conception about time than others in the island. This kind of people tend to rely on time in order to complete every task .
Furthermore, a big proportion in the island usually take their time to get to social or even professional activities. On example, pubs in Puerto Rico usually opens around 9:00p.m. but their clients on average arrives around 12:30a.m. If we use this as an example people in my country are not stress enough on time. Time conception is in the eye of the beholder and we can just act as individuals and chose if we fallow this behaviors or adopt our owns.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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I do agree that different countries have different methods about time sense.But it seems like little different than in my country. There are so many people in my country who really do need to work on time. The time schedule is expected among by most of the educated personalities. It's not like the university in Brazil.In my country the students and the professors work on time.
Javier has said that going to any place in his country doesn't make any sense about the time. As an example he says that going to a store and waiting at the cashier takes time but it is the situation there. And the pubs open at 9.00 am but the people come there at 12.30pm.From these examples he tries to convey us about the freedom they use.It's a fact that we should pace the identities of the others as well as ours. And at the same time I would like to remind either to move slower than what we really do want to or to fly against the time is not much good as human beings.
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