Chronemics
Monochronic cultures may be more “efficient” in their use of time, but in their treatment of time as a commodity, they lose the richness that comes with allowing tasks, conversations, and interactions to move forward at a more natural and sustainable pace.
Culture Study • The Diminishing Returns of Calendar Culture
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\Vhat is different is the way they use and experience time. For the Tiv, time is like a capsule. There is a time for visit-ing, for cooking, or for working; and when one is in one of these times, one does not shift to another.
Edward T. Hall • THE SILENT LANGUAGE
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more kairos, less chronos.
relates to soft and hard time
Chronos, from which we get the word chronological, which refers to the only time we in the Western world recognise: linear, sequential time.
Lucy H. Pearce • Creatrix: she who makes
For us a "long time" can be almost anything- ten or twenty years, two or three months, a few weeks, or even a couple of days. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to th ink of a "long time" in terms of th ousands of years or even an endless period. A colleague once described their conceptualization of time as follows: "Tim... See more
Edward T. Hall • THE SILENT LANGUAGE
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Edward Hall book
"Monochronic cultures [one thing at a time] may be more ‘efficient’ in their use of time, but in their treatment of time as a commodity, they lose the richness that comes with allowing tasks, conversations, and interactions to move forward at a more natural and sustainable pace."
"[And] because rapid-growth capitalism favors a monochronic understand
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