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How Different Cultures Understand Time
Time, and how we experience time, is always a cultural creation. Most cultures are taught—to put this very simply—that time is circular. Subsequently, you can see the world being played out in a circular way. What’s interesting about Western cultures is, at some point, we said, “You know what? We’re not circular. We’re an arrow. We’re not looking f
... See moreDebbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
Eastern cultures maintain a cyclical perception of time. Time is viewed as repeating or recurring in cycles, with events following a circular or spiral pattern. In cyclical time cultures, there is an understanding that the past, present, and future are interconnected, and that events repeat themselves over time. Time is seen as circular, with each
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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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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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People of the Western world, particularly Americans, tend to think of time as something fixed in nature, something around us and from which we cannot escape; an ever-present part of the environment, just like the air we breathe. That it might be experienced in any other way seems unnatural and strange, a feeling which is rarely modified even when w... See more
Edward T. Hall • THE SILENT LANGUAGE
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Man’s perception of time is closely linked with his internal rhythms. But his responses to time are culturally conditioned.
Alvin Toffler • Future Shock
But as many aboriginal cultures view it, time is more circular in pattern; not like the Western linear comprehension of time as past-present-future, but flexible to the individual at the centre of that “time-circle.”