Ten years ago I had a
dialogue with a certain lady in Jagodina, Serbia. She insisted that she refused
to abide in a culture where you have to live for work. The way to
"live" inhibits culture, in every sense of importance to be able to
live out. Therefore, she could not imagine settling in northern Europe. It
complains, in a vague sense of existence, the Swedes live to work, while the
Serbs are working to live. This is a misunderstanding and an escape from reality;
i get clear to me many years later. If one gets into sentences clears this
misunderstanding.
Is this really a
cultural difference? Do you wish to develop?
This suggestion
desires a deeper dialogue on the subject!
Culture: Those
customary beliefs, values, and social constraints that ethnic, religious, and
social groups transmit fairly unchanged from generation to generation. It has
taken a lifetime to change, at least the 19:th century. A lifetime is including
three generations before and three after you! The fast globalizing will change
this, in the civilised part at least.
Physically working
Swedes, anyway the group with income from salary, much less than most
Europeans. It can certainly debate at various levels (but why is it only those
who work for a salary who have the time to commit to practice in the
community?).
The Serbs are
basically a very industrious people, so even if they do not live to work, they
live by the work and the chore they do. Serbs have also a number of code words
to himself in order to avoid conflict with himself, with others and life in
general. It refers to the entertainment and the game, instead of complaining
about the heavy workload, as the Swede gladly prepares. The Serbian life
Serbian entertainment helps to see the difficulties of life, a very good way to
avoid confrontation with the life that is difficult. The easiest way to
complain about life is to refer to other people's faults and mistakes, to go
into himself avoided forever. Shoulder pressure is an explicit body language
for this setting, as well as the reference to blame the small capital. What
happens when you get the "allowance" in his hand - a shrug and
planning for its use hiding behind the game? And game and entertainment takes
over all sound thinking on the organization and cooperation. Healthy thinking
for Serbian is not to confront himself without constantly involved in life
entertainment.
Constantly complaining
about the heavy workload is the Swede's way to escape from life's real self.
How many times have I had to lie that I have so much to do, just to be able to
give the correct code words for dialogue. That is the big problem in Sweden,
which no one has time for it has "too much to do"! We live, but live
not always life, and hide us from problems in that way.
