week 7

Time is a very different cultural idea. In our minds when we say a time we mean that exact time. Where in different cultures you can show up 30min to 1 hour later and that would be acceptable. without a strict time schedule most American would think our way of life would collapse, but in other countries that's just how they see things. if you are going to apply for a job and you show up 10 minutes late who most likely wont get that job. But in different cultures that would be considered on time, as we have learned in class it's very hard to look at our own culture (our own fishbowl) from inside of it, but when we are pulled away from our culture we can look at it differently and see how odd our "normal" culture is.