So are you saying that we have to treat our housekeepers at a less mature level than when I taught my own kids to do laundry at about age 4? This seems ridiculous. In my heart, I am afraid you are right (maybe I'm the lame one for needing two years to learn this
My visitors tell me I should fire our housekeeper because she is so childlike but she is only 19 and they don't understand the culture. My experience is that all we can hope for is someone who is honest, works reasonably hard and who has the possibility of learning.
No, I am not implying anybody is to be even only considered less mature.
It's a difference in culture and life experiences. Nothing diminishable about either way. It was YOU who said "...
they don't understand the culture". Have you considered that maybe it's mutual?
People of economically poor back ground obviously (have to) look at things differently. The don't save much, because they never had much to save, so when there is plentyfull they tend to enjoy it (today) and live the good life even if it's just for once. There is nothing wrong with it... millions of smiling faces in this country are proving it right.
We on the other hand do things like buying bulk...
because we can afford to, we are forward looking and feel smart and happy is we can save a buck here and there in the long run. We know it's cheaper but to a person with little money, it can hardly make sense... why spending all that beautiful money on a huge canister of washing powder you don't seem to want to enjoy to it's fullest potential, when you can buy all the powder you'd need today for "only" 20 Pesos and spend the rest of the money on better things... like ingredients to a big sancocho for the whole family and half the neighborhood? Maybe that's part of why they are happier people than we are, less worried about tomorrow and things like the economics of washing powder.
If you have a lot it means that you just love to use a lot, why else would you keep that much?
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no importa... yo hay! " Is that less mature? I wouldn't want to be the judge of that, after all we came here because people are more laid back and to escape the rat's race...
By the way my little quart bottle of softener is still half full.. it's over two weeks now (my
first post on this thread). So I asked. She said that she put some water into it to dilute it!! I asked why, to which she replied that since I don't like the smell of it!
That's after I replaced the 1 Gallon canister she went thru in a week comment less with the small one.
... J-D.
