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Right. This shift has happened in multiple languages. When people did work involving lots of physical labor they needed to eat their largest meal of the day around noon, in the middle of the workday. Furthermore in some cases the word which used to mean breakfast has shifted to mean the meal now eaten around noon.
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In English "dinner" means either the evening meal or the midday meal, depending on where you're from and what generation. It means the biggest meal, which varies culturally.
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I learned petit déjeuner is breakfast (cup of coffee with a croissant, really nothing against hunger), and déjeuner is the lunch. It depends on the part of France, the teacher, the century?
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Even more fun: until about 60 years ago people in the Netherlands used to eat their hot meal around noon. Probably the same happened in other western and northern European countries.
California, what about you? People here work all kinds of hours. If you don't get up until noon or 2pm, I don't necessarily assume that you were partying all night, you could have been working the graveyard shift. Hey, even the swing shift would change my schedule. Yet, I know students that don't eat until school is over at 3pm also. Not too healthy, but they just aren't hungry before school and won't take the time at lunch from their socializing!
It certainly sounds like LA or some where. I live now in Chengdu (southwest China) for college, but I am from northwest China Xi'an. You can google the map if you want. Am pretty sure that there ARE some fancy night lives out their, but I believe an overwhelming majority people in inland China eats a normal three-meal-per-day diet.