You think that administrators are making this up, but they are not making it up:
The university warns faculty not to enforce start times for gatherings in an online training featuring “fictional characters,” made public by Campus Reform:
“On another slide, a character named Alejandro schedules a 9:00 a.m. meeting between two groups of foreign professors and students. The first group arrived fifteen minutes early, while the second arrived ten minutes late [and wanted to “socialize” first]. According to the answers, it is wrong for Alejandro to “politely ask the second group to apologize,” or explain that “in our country, 9:00 a.m. means 9:00 a.m.””
It disrespects other people’s cultures to ask them to follow American conventions of appointments starting when they are literally scheduled to start[.]
