A friend's post on "tardy" people got me thinking

Jun 13, 2009 04:51

I am fascinated by the Global North's obsession with exact time. Growing up in Mexico this was never even a concept, and I have experienced the same lack of fixation in many other cultures, including Native American, so I'm fairly certain it's not literally geographic. Cultures living rooted more closely to the diurnal cycle and the seasons ( ( Read more... )

early, time, tardy, on time, gmt, late

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thekaiser June 14 2009, 23:21:58 UTC
Prior to the invention of accurate timepieces (especially watches) all evidence is that Europeans had a very cyclical view of time driven by the natural world. After the invention of decent timepieces, early scientists went around measuring how long all sorts of things took to happen (which wasn't really possible before they had a more-or-less absolute time scale to use ( ... )

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Порно anonymous January 27 2011, 13:38:30 UTC

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