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		jbn on June 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Different Cultures Understand Time That's odd, we have a saying in France that one always ought to be a fashionable 15 minutes late, it's considered polite to do so..

carlob on June 3, 2014 [–]

I'm not sure 15 minutes are enough in Italy, though it wildly varies from north to south. Anyway I agree that the culture shock is not huge between France and Italy, at least not as much as with german speaking countries.

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