Culture Differences Concerning Time

 

Monochromic versus polychromic, I have never heard about these concepts, I have no idea of what was then, but I started learning about them and it was interesting. I’m from El Salvador City, a Latin American city where family, friends, and relationships are first, I could understand about American people are monochromic.

Monochromic Cultures | One Thing at a Time:  In a monochromic culture like the United States or countries in northern Europe, time is a commodity. We have expressions like waste time or lose time or "time is money. As you have probably already figured out, because time is such a commodity, showing up late, especially for a meeting or a dinner, usually comes across as very disrespectful. A monochromic culture functions on clock time. People like to focus on one thing at a time and are usually concerned with completing objectives in a systematic way. In a meeting, it's often important to stick to the plan or agenda and not to get "off track" by talking about unrelated topics.

Polychromic Cultures | Many Things at the Same Time:  Polychromic cultures like southern Europe, Latin American countries and the Middle East, take a very different view towards time. People from these cultures often believe that time cannot be controlled and it is flexible. Days are planned based on events rather than the clock. For many people in these cultures, when one event is finished, it is time to start the next, regardless of what the clock says. In a business exchange in a polychromic culture, sticking to an agenda might not be very important. Instead, many tasks like building relationships, negotiating or problem solving, can be accomplished at the same time.

Discussing the ESL homerooms, we will have various understudies, from various nations, some could be monochromatic, and others polychromatic. We as the need might arise to cause them to feel in the home, not judge, make games or exercises where everybody could know one another, and why they are that way. Regard what significant are a few things for somebody, and furthermore not lash out on the off chance that he/she doesn't think like us. Be conscious.

For instance, how sort of exercises I could treat bound together monochromatic and polychromatic understudies? What might I do for them to see one another and be conscious?