One of my former employers participated in a goodwill project to help Maasai tribes in Kenya build infrastructure like schools and wells. The Maasai have/had l

One of my former employers participated in a goodwill project to help Maasai tribes in Kenya build infrastructure like schools and wells. The Maasai have/had little concept of travel or time. One of their tribesmen came to visit us in the UK and he told of how difficult it was to explain to his village that he had to be at the airport by a certain time. He had to use childbirth as a metaphor - as in told his villagers that he had to be there in time for the airplane to be born into the sky. Their usual perception of time is just one of "when it happens" (like "cest la vie" but explicitly time) When do we eat? When we're hungry. When do we tend to the goats? When the goats need tending. Etc.