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5、The next time you feel annoyed when someone keeps you waiting, remember that people of different cultures ,families, and personality types may have different ideas of time.
2、A common example of this is if someone travels to a culture that perceives time differently than in his or her own culture: English-Canadian tourists may be frustrated by “slow” restaurant service in Italy.
1、He believes that many societies, including the United States ,encourage us to live in “fast forward”—high peed—all the time.
2、Ttimeshifing means constantly changing our rhythm, slowing or accelerating in order to feel in the present moment.
4、Perhaps most difficult is the fact that life requires both approaches to time—some tasks, like taking out the garbage, are predictable and can be approached in a monochronic way. However, a monochronic approach doesn’t apply to things like falling in love or resolvnslation
1、There are always exceptions to these cultural tendencies. That is to say ,all Americans are not punctual, and all Spanish are not relaxed about schedues.
3、Yet when the Japanese government tried to shorten the work week from six days to five a few years ago, workers opposed the change.
4、When someone knows that staying longer at work will bring him or her increased income, there is a very incentive to say longer and longer.
recitation
Perhaps most difficult is the fact that life requires both approaches to time—some tasks, like taking out the garbage, are predictable and can be approached in a monochronic way. However, a monochronic approach doesn’t apply to things like falling in love or resolving an argument.
3、Even in one’s own culture, it may be difficult for someone who is casual about appointments and deadlines to work efficiently enough to satisfy a boss who values punctuality.