Posted by Bik on Saturday, 31. October 1998 at 01:56 Bali Time:
In Reply to: Cultural Loss and Greed posted by J on Friday, 30. October 1998 at 06:26 Bali Time:
Dear Jon,
I completely agree with your point of view; ofcourse I also met some wonderfull Balinese people, I remember that one day I was bicycling in some real distant places, and I spend an hour sitting in a rice field with a local, I spoke 5 words Bahasa Indonesia and he did not even know 1 word English. Somehow we managed to understand each other, using our hands and lots of bodylanguage, and it was just so wonderfull. I would accept the food he was offering me, and we were laughing the whole time. I have a very good memory of that afternoon, no pictures nevertheless, because I know some of them think you'll take their soul when making pictures of them, and I did not want to take the risk of taking a picture. Anyway, I just want to make clear that not all of them are greedy and not all of them have adapted themselves to tourism, so you're right : there are some wonderfull Balinese people out there and it's worth going there, but it's just that I think I will not go back anymore (there's so much more in Indonesia that I haven't been visiting before)
Bik