Call-center training institutes are springing up all over in bigger cities in India, helping young people, for a fee, to de-Indianize themselves. During one lesson at one of the Indian institutes, the instructor was overheard saying, "Americans and the British are very specific with their times. When they say one minute, they mean one minute. When they say two minutes, they mean two minutes." The instructor was referring to the fact that the Americans and the British do not have _____ cultures.

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The instructor's comment highlights that Americans and the British are precise with time, indicating they have monochronic cultures, which is the opposite of polychronic cultures where time is more fluid and less strictly managed.

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