A Smaill Place by Jamaica Kincaid

Part 1:
1. Does Kincaid describe what the natives feel about tourist fairly?
2. Do the natives of Antigua dislike all tourist or just Europeans?
3. Does it help to bring a another countries influence and  to another without affecting the other?
Part 2:
  1. Does Kincaid describe what the natives feel about tourist fairly?

In the piece called “A small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid, she talks about how native perceive tourist. She explains that if you were a tourist you are seen as “ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that” and that the natives cannot stand you and they judge the things that you do. It is harsh but to me this is true because I have experienced these things on my travels, similar to Kincaid's. She talks about arriving to Antigua and her journey to the hotel. When she encounters the taxi driver and the driver tells her the amount of what the ride would cost her, he added that the amount would be with U.S currency trying to rip her off. When I read this it reminded me of when I entered a grocery store with my cousin in Mexico and when I left the store my cousin, who is from Mexico, told me that I had just been ripped off and I got mad at my cousin for not telling me before I paid but I went back to get my exact change back. When I went to Mexico in January I was in a small town walking to my family’s bakery with my aunt and as Kincaid puts it I began to feel like I was being judged because as I passed people they would give me an  unpleasant look. While I was in the bakery there was a group of girls staring at me while they giggled which made me uncomfortable because I had done nothing wrong or had anything on my face. Kincaid says that the reasons why the natives do things like that is because they are envious because you have the ability and means to get away from “your own banality and boredom," but those particular experiences did not damper my mood as much nor did I let it ruin my trip.