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Right, so lazy Mediterranean Catholics vs industrious North European Protestants? Got you.

The mastery of time is a pretty amazing modern innovation of the industrial revolution but it doesn't mean as much in agrarian economies or developing countries emerging from them. Not sure this applies to Latino immigrants working their bollocks off in US agriculture for minimum wage.

There's undoubtedly something to be said for cultural uses and understandings of time, just as there is also something to be said for not making twee cartoons about generalised concepts and applying them as essentialist characteristics to entire groups of people.