Balance and viewpoint...
I was speaking with a Bosnian Croat today who had graduated from University with a history degree. We discussed the ability to write about history from an impartial standpoint. After a while the subject turned to the most recent badness around here and he became very pointed. Be watchful of English journalists, and there isn't much that is impartial. After a while I realized that I was speaking to a Bosnian Croat and that he was indeed speaking in that function. So here inside the Balkan bubble, there is no such thing as impartiality, only nationalistic opinion.
Then I spent a great 5 hours talking to the owner of my flat, an Irishman who has lived here for four years. We both agreed that the locals were a bunch of nutters who had no sense of history or possibilities of a future. This is the logic: If you offered a local 10 dollars a day to work for you he would. Then say, 'I am paying you 1000 dollars at the end of the month instead of 10 a day', he would take the daily wage first. Nutters.
More work tomorrow, then, I hope, more work all week before I go back to Sarajevo this weekend for the Run Against Drugs being sponsored by the US Consulate. More to come...
Johnnyboy
posted by John D.C. Masters @ 6/15/2008
5 Comments:
There's a certain degree of common sense though in taking the daily wage. You're sure of getting it; it's immediate. A $1,000 at the end of the month may or may not happen. In the uncertain times in which they've lived, they may feel that a bird in the hand, etc. Your or I would take the $1,000, but then, we've been raised in a stable environment, relatively speaking.
And the Croatians are hardly the only ones to be subject to nationalistic opinion and partiality. Our own country has quite a lot of that as well. I've rarely seen impartial journalism in my lifetime. It always creeps in somewhere along the line, and the past decade has been rife with bias.
Good luck and have fun during the Run Against Drugs! :0)
Which class are you taking with Carol?
Ah. I want to take large and medium format photography, also through CDL as an independent study. I need to speak with my mentor, though.
It would / will be an independent study, but through CDL. I need to speak with my mentor first, though. I wanted to take it at FIT but they are SO unfriendly.
Oh yes, and it will be with Carol.
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