Mar 18, 2006 21:42
Well, for this issue I lean towards the 'yes' argument. I do agree that museums misrepresent ethnic communities around the world. I believe that no matter how hard a museum tries to correctly display a culture, it will never be exactly as if a person goes and directly observes a culture to get a true sense of what it is like. I is like the study of different cultures and no one can write about a specific culture without having been a part of it to correctly observe the traditions and customs.