On cultural stereotypes

by Lilia Efimova on July 21, 2004

Just filled in a survey from my company on “how do I want our canteen to operate?” (we are moving to a new building in few months). One of the questions was about time when I’d like to have lunch, giving me an opportunity to choose between 4 options of 30 minutes long.

I guess you need to be Dutch to assume that 30 minutes is enough for lunch :) I want 1-1,5h, good food and preferably a walk after it, but there is no way to fill it in… I guess I should spend lunch time in another country :)))

Just an example of how often we try to put others in the frame of our own experiences… Guilty of that as well :)

One of my professional quests is about recognising and appreciating differences, getting out of the box of your own stereotypes and habits, finding multiple perspectives… I guess it’s coming from my belief in multipolar world.

Back to work.

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/07/21.html#a1295; comments are here.

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