Monday, November 12, 2018

When it comes down to it, it's a clash of culture.  Nothing more.  Nothing less.  Don't know if others are seeing it that way or not.

Last Friday Charles Wesco was buried in a private, by invitation only, event.  However both his church and the funeral parlor were inundated by phone calls.  People were insisting that they had to know when, where, and what time he would be buried.  The church and the funeral parlor politely invited them to the memorial service that was held at 1 p.m. today at his church.  But this was not satisfactory news.  People insisted that they had to be at the burial, too as they were family.  Cameroonian family that is.   Mind you, they did not know Charles Wesco.  Had never heard of him prior to his death.  But they are family.

 Here in Cameroon it is very important to see the deceased.  Or at least a picture of him in his casket.  And to attend the burial is extremely important.  They need to show their respect and the family needs to see them there.  A memorial service is outside of their cultural norms.  It just doesn't cut it.

So these Cameroonians were viewed as obnoxious and rude by Americans.  But really, it was just a clash of culture.  In the end they had to content themselves with the memorial service.  While we haven't heard, I am sure they were there in number.  In fact the word went out on social media that all Ambazonians should attend in order to prove that it was the Cameroonian military that killed Charles.  How that would prove anything is beyond me.  Hopefully they were not disruptive.

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