Comment Re:Good for many reasons (Score 1) 109
You know, there are stories about some countries being "laid back", in Europe.
Occupied during WWII by Germans was for example Greece.
In Germany Greeks had a bad reputation for being lazy.
That was basically anecdotical spread of word of mouth by returning soldiers and officers.
The occupied areas had a curfew till roughly 7:00 in the morning. Around 9:00 the officers visited the coffee shops for breakfast around the central plaza, called Plakka, in Greek.
All the farmers and fishermen were sitting there and playing with their prayer necklaces. So the officers thought: why is that lazy pack not out working? They saw them sitting around, or going to sleep after lunch and only work from 5PM to 8PM.
Well, the Greek ignored the curfew, and went working in the morning at 4AM, so at 8AM they had done half days work already and started to gather on the Plakka.
The attitude that Philippinos or Thai are "super laid back", is just idiotic.