AMERICAN TIME People of the Western world, particularly Americans, tend to think of time as something fixed in nature, something around us from which we cannot escape; an ever present part of the environment, just like the air we breathe. That it might be experienced in any other way seems unnatural and strange, a feeling which is rarely modified even when we begin to discover how really different it is handled by some other people. Within the West itself certain cultures rank time much lower in over-all importance than we do. In Latin America, for example, where time is treated rather cavalierly, one commonly hears the expression, "Our time or your time?" "Horaamericana, horamejicana?

SOME OTHER CONCEPTS OF TIME

Even within the very borders of the United States there are people who handle time in a

way which is almost incomprehensible to those who have not made a major effort to

understand it. The Pueblo Indians, for example, who live in the Southwest, have a sense

of time which is at complete variance with the clock-bound habits of the ordinary

American citizen. For the Pueblos events begin when the time is ripe and no sooner

what do you now expert the passage to be about?
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