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Mexican business hours in the cities are 9:00 a.m. until perhaps 6:00 p.m. Governement offices may be open much later, until 9:00 p.m. or more. Lunch is often a key business venue that extends from about 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Senior government people can begin lunch as late as 4:30 p.m.
Here is a great site for cultural etiquette. Although focused on the business world, it is also very helpful for general cultural understanding for about 4 dozen countries.
Heading down to Mexico, or further south this year … planning on a visit to a Spanish speaking country? Here are some great and interactive Spanish Language lessons you can grab from the BBC online.
These Spanish Lessons are great survival level tools to let you just step into the culture without complete confusion
I have recetnly been reading Ethan Watters book, Urban Tribes.
It is a very easy read, but attempts to deconstruct the North American culture of the ‘never-married’, very interesting in it’s take on the importance of communities. It tends to ask the question, what if Gen. X is not a slacker generation at all, what if they have merely re-defined community outside of the previous norms.
Here Ethan attempts to look at his own particular culture from an outsiders perspective, although the term ‘tribe’ is often the new cool to define community, I think Ethan does attempt to look a little deeper than his own feelings on the subject.
This may be a good recommendation for those engaged with this group of people … enjoy!
here is a quick flash animation, that highlights the stereotyped differences between Italy and the rest of Europe … it is amusing, and also reminds me of many of the stereotypes that we have with other nations
Check out this site for a quick primer on one step t-shirt folding …
I think it may take 30 seconds or so to load, but it is worth it!
Already one year old? You look fantastic!
Resonate is a listserve that I recently joined, it simply links up a group of us Canadians who want to think and talk about what Faith may look like in our lifetime …
Also check out their brand new bundle of joy, the journal right here. This one year old give birth to another baby on their birthday!? Check it out for a series of essays etc following and expanding on the email entries that flew back and forth between the various minds in this smartmob over the last year
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