AN ASSHOLE FROM NEW YORK. I HOPE THIS IS AN ISOLATED STORY OF A WHITE MAN COMING TO A POORER COUNTRY. THIS IS A TRUE STORY. IT HAPPENED TO US. He is from New York. He was not willing to write his name on the log book, he went directly inside the gallery with his camera man and started to shoot a video with an alleged leader of the Matigsalog community. Museo Dabawenyo guide Judy politely reprimanded him that the museum does not allow picture and video taking inside any of the galleries, only in the lobby and the Bantawan areas. He raised his voice and told Judy, I dont care about those rules, I am not interested with your museum, or the gallery, I just want to make this interview with her, she is a leader of the Matigsalog tribe, are you not going to allow her, we are just using your exhibition as the background of the interview. Marge, another museum guide, came to rescue Judy who was just employed three weeks ago and said, excuse me sir, may I interrupt? If you really want to make a shoot, why dont you talk to the administrator, he is in-charge here in the museum. Off, she accompanied the guests. Si Orly? Sheila answered, naglakaw ra ba, naa sa city hall. Then as Sheila recalled, he murmured, no wonder, the Philippines is a third world country. That was not my cue, but it was a coincidence that I stood up to staple some records, Marge told him to talk to me instead. Oh, yes, I already met you upstairs, you are the designer, right? You designed that very flamboyant dress upstairs. I actually did not understand what he was talking but then he asked me, you have a rule here not to allow picture taking inside, why is that? I answered it was a rule ever since because people come here, take pictures, post them in the internet, or somewhere else with the wrong information. But there is always an exception to the rule, if you want... He cut me short and he angrily said, you know what, you are nothing. Your museum is so small and means nothing, you think I came here to give wrong information? I did not just come from somewhere else.. I am here to interview this woman who is a leader of the Matigalsogs... I told him , that is why I have told you there is an exception to the rule, if you want you can write a letter to us and... He again cut me short and said, I am not going to write any letter. If you dont want me to take any footage of your little useless museum, that is fine... That New Yorker, if he was honest when he wrote his place of origin, sorry to say this, is an asshole! Hmm... I am actually groping for a better word.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 07:43:04 +0000
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