https://gnusocial.jp/notice/10046001 When I was taking Spanish, I remember my instructor telling me that in most Latin American nations, time is considered to be a circle. If you miss an assigned time, you just wait until the circle turns and that time comes around again. It gives an unhurried nature that Americans cannot comprehend, because our view of time is a line. If you miss a set time, it never comes around again, so we tend to be much more rushed and more pushy about time.