"A Small Place" begins with a description of Antigua by Jamaica Kincaid, which is the native place of she. Kincaid note the conflict of the tourist when they visit Antigua. Is a fact, that this book describes Antigua as a beautiful and small island in the Caribbean sea. But from other perspective, Antigua's reality is in an unlucky and poverty situation, and at the same time, she strongly criticise the expensive cars and majestic houses that the tourist only notice, which is no the reality of the island. Kincaid greatly defers and denigrates "the moral" actitud of the tourist, their irrelevance, ignorance and careless. she did not understand how someone could visit a place and ignore all the realities that happen their.
During the book, Kincaid reminds and flash back old memories of his past experiences in Antigua and talk about the historically past of Antigua, specifically the time during the colonisation rule over the people of the island in hands of the whites Europeans people, in particular de English people. In this part of the book we see some otherings theme, and some in groups vs. out group connotations, which separate and differenciate some characteristics of indentification. One of the biggest difference was that slavery problem and racism culture that where present in the island, and the discrimination by color. Regardless of this, today's Antiguans people still reverent to the English culture and don not give importance to this differences of denigration by stereotypes that where presente in the past, because of all this, or whatever reason, Kincaid is very strong and direct to the bad attitude of the tourist.
I think she needs to overcome that attitude because not all tourists are the same and also Antiguan's may like to do that job, they might not feel denigrated. This negative energy it what gives people the bad impression of themselves.
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