Bradley was working for the summer in Costa Rica. He had made arrangements with a business associate to give him a ride to a nearby town at 10 a.m. He was very upset when his ride had still not appeared by 10:30. Bradley did not understand that ______ time is common in Latin America.
A. variable
B. monochronic
C. multitask
D. delayed
E. polychronic
E. polychronic
Polychronic time is a preference for doing more than one thing at a time. Here time is viewed as being flexible and multidimensional. This outlook on time is the kind that prevails in Mediterranean, Latin American, and especially Arab cultures.
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