Assignment D.I.E Paul Berastegui

If I am waiting in the queue, finnish people will wait until I decide to move.

Description

Last month , with exchanges students we were waiting write outside Kalle at the beginning of the party.  As soon as we arrived, our group were taking up the entire space of the sidewalk.  Consequently the rest of the queue cannot go ahead at the pace they would like to. Thus the interesting fact is that enven if they could’t move on, they were not daring to lead the situation. Rather, they were waiting without saying anything instead of  asking us to move forward. After few minutes we have come to understood the situation.

Interpretation

When I reconsider the situation, I thinks that this clearily represent finnish behaviour in everyday life. For me, on the basis that Kokkola is not a city « overpopulated »,  people certainly seem to have no fair advantages. Here it’s difficult to discern a sense of competion, their is no rules that  will make them less important and inferior to others. Consequently, its fed into our minds that they have to follow order because the queue indicates a certain kind of egalitarianism. By comparison, in some countries like India, this situation would be psychologically unacceptable to many people. Indians are known to try to minimize costs by jumping the line (because of services are usually overtaxe and they want to save money). Thus for finnish people waiting in the queue is deep in their mind and their cultures.

Evaluation

I thinks that waiting in line and respecting one another is what makes the world go round. Hence I never assume that someone or another time is more important than mine. However it seem difficult to accept that I have to wait because someone is distracted by something. A simple comment would have been enough to unblock the situation.

Paul Berastgeui