实际上德国人和瑞士人比起美国人对时间是更加有意识，北欧人把迟到视为一个 无 纪律 的人 的特征。

People of German and Switzerland are even more time conscious than are people from the U. S. in fact, northern Europeans regard tardiness as a characteristic of an undisciplined person.

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但是这样并没有导致荷兰青少年的放荡狂欢和高比率的少女怀孕，少女堕胎或者是青少年性疾病的传播，比起美国人来说，荷兰的这些问题比率要远远低得多。

But rather than resulting in crazed teen orgies and high rates of teen pregnancy, abortion or transmission of STDs, the Dutch have far lower rates of these problems than the U.S..

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另一方面，比起大多数美国人，在大多数亚洲文化中人们在公开表达自己的感受时要谨慎得多。

On the other hand, people in most Asian cultures are far more guarded about expressing their feelings publicly than most Americans are.

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