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| My friends and I on the slope of Mt. Merapi, Yogyakarta |
As a non-Indonesian person who are visiting tourism places like the temples, did you often experience that question? I guess your answer is YES :D
It is common for me to hear stories from my international friends that they had stop every few meter because local people asked them to take picture. In the first time, some of my friends thought that the local people asked help to take picture of them (maybe because everybody wants to be in the picture). NO. They don't want the help of taking picture. They want the foreigners to be IN the picture.
Some foreigners will easily say yes. My friend said it made him felt like celebrity :D Besides that, there was always smiles on their faces after the photo session so it made him happy as well.
But, others also said no because, yeah, if you already said yes to one person, the others would start to ask you for more pictures. Then, you couldn't enjoy the place and just standing there staring at the camera lens. That's the risk for being celebrity :P
Q: Why is that? Why everybody want to take picture of us?
A: Well, I don't really know their personal reasons. But I will tell you some general reasons...
