Bal questions

"Telling, Showing, Showing Off"
How do you separate observation from opinion in your work?
Resoning: This question is rather general, but seemd to especially apply to this article. Mieke Bal's observations seemed to lean toward the idea that the curators of the museum had made a concious decision to order the museum the way they did. They had wrapped up their opinions in the way that they displayed various artifacts. Bal's observations also seemed to me to contain an element of opinion rather than solid fact; how does she strike a balance between opinion and truth telling in observation based paper such as this?

"Tradition"
How do you propose that new traditions be enacted/how can the creation of new traditions be hastened?
Reasoning: Bal suggests that new traditions must be created and the old ones wholeheartedly reputed if they no longer fit the culture in which they occur. In the obvious case of the Zwarte Piet, this is a much needed change. However, as traditions such as these are firmly embedded in culture, what can people do as individuals to repudiate traditions that may no longer be reflective of society?