但是,我同时又欣赏她,甚至很是理解其浮夸Dramatic的姿态。欣赏她,是喜欢她穿着最普通的旅行outfit素颜的样子。把自己打扮得很精致甚至过于精致而远离了context是很多漂亮的女主持人很容易犯的错误,然而Kate Humble在这点就表现得无懈可击。她知道自己去的不是高级Mall或者干净漂亮的欧洲小镇,所以她选择的是宽松上衣户外长裤以及绝对的素颜。在将自己融入到context方面,100分。
此外,我在不喜欢其浮夸的姿态的同时又充满了理解之情。因为我在印度和斯里兰卡生活过,现在又生活在迪拜这样的中东地区,我深深知道作为一个女性在外行走需要表现出何种姿态。对于男性,作为普通人,无需妥协,保持距离就好;但对于女性,我自己其实也总是表现出浮夸的姿态,因为这样矫正过的更加明显的感情流露能拉近我和当地人的距离,加速融入到她们之中。我相信这样一副姿态,其实是Kate旅行多年有意识或无意识培养出来的一套应对机制。看看维基上对她的一段介绍:
“After leaving school she travelled through Africa from Cape Town to Cairo, doing various jobs including waitressing, driving safari trucks and working on a crocodile farm. She has returned to Africa many times since. In 1994, she travelled around Madagascar, the subject of her first article for The Daily Telegraph travel section. Since then she has written articles about diving and cycling in Cuba, an 'exploding' lake in Cameroon and hippopotamus conservation work in Ghana.”