"The unambiguously negative idea of procrastination seems unique to the Western world" As an American living in Shanghai for 9 years, I have had to confront th

"The unambiguously negative idea of procrastination seems unique to the Western world" As an American living in Shanghai for 9 years, I have had to confront this meme in its various forms on many occasions. My wife (Chinese) will simply tell me things like "Chinese people are not afforded the luxury of your behavior". It appears procrastination is something that must be "afforded". Its not that procrastination is unique to us (modern-Western-middle-class++), but that it may have cultivated itself into an attribute that has reluctant value; otherwise da Vinci would have no merit in this context.