Why brazilians are always late? - a revisited version.

Should say it is because we have a big cultural influence of italians?
Recently, I could figure out that all my classes starts at least with 5 minutes of delay. Usually, if the professor is there, half of the students are not. Not really ealy in the morning, around 9:00... So, I was deeply glad to know, brazilians are not the only one!

I should give a piece of advice, in south of Brazil, the "later flexibility" may not be exactly follow... we have germans there.