I agree with JToledo, I think cultural background has a lot to do in this topic .
Coming from a (spanish-speaking) Latin America Country, living at the moment in Spain and after living in USA, UAE, UK and Germany among others I realized that it can be guessed some common cultural-factors in the spanish-speaking countries that I would like to share it in this forum:
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Lack of competitiveness felling: Unfortunately the tendency is to compete with someone else by pushing this person out of the way instead of improving one self (to be more competitive) therefore, this cause:
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Lack of feeling to improve one self: Why should I do it better if there wont be any difference for my own benefits?
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Comfortable feeling, is like getting fat, if you do not stop early it becomes worse and worse. And you wont stop because you are very confortable eating like a pig.
And I can share you more common factors that would make you realize why our culture takes longer to be adapted in a competitive environment but would make my post too boring...
Saludos,
CuPa.-
(I would like to cause no offence by sharing my opinions, if by any chance you think I writing something unappropiate or off-topic please contact me via PM's since I do not want to take this forum out of the main topic)
