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> If anything, more of humanity (Asia, Africa, Latin America, Mediterranean, Middle East, etc) is less against being punctual than in favor of it. [Citation Ne
by andrewzah 7y ago
> If anything, more of humanity (Asia, Africa, Latin America, Mediterranean, Middle East, etc) is less against being punctual than in favor of it.
[Citation Needed]
This wasn’t exactly the case in Japan and S. Korea in my experience.
Whether or not being late is a slight depends on the culture and the person, too.
- coldtea 7y ago>This wasn’t exactly the case in Japan and S. Korea in my experience. That's partly because Japan and South Korea were forcibly and heavily westernized and heavily stressed to achieve industrial success at all costs, after (different) traumatic war, occupation and colonization events. It's not however the typical characteristic of Asian culture (with spans 3 billion more people than South Korea/Japan), nor the traditional one... See also "Karoshi" et al...
- pnako 7y agoJapan was not colonized by the West. But it was itself a colonial power.
- coldtea 7y agoI didn't say it was. I said the two countries changed "after (different) traumatic war, occupation and colonization events". Japan was traumatized by its encounter with westerners, by being forced to open its borders for commerce (through force), and later by WWII defeat and subsequent nuclear obliteration of two of its cities, and occupation and supervision by the allies (or, well, the GIs).\ For South Korea, ironically, it was Japan itself who at some point was the colonizer and occupation force...
- SturgeonsLaw 7y agoThey are probably the two most highly strung societies in Asia. Outside of those examples, particularly in the more equatorial tropical regions, punctuality gets a whole lot looser.