The writing by Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place, narrates a huge problem faced around the world. The small places or small islands suffer because of all the tourists that come only to escape their reality. It is frustrating for habitants to suffer because of this people that do not worry about the true life or circumstance they might be in. Specially the others or foreigners soon as they set foot seek for a way to take advantage of this small places. It is due to the circumstances in the past that their envy and disgust grows towards this outsiders.The main feeling this natives might feel is jealousy. This feeling grows as they see how people come and go, enjoying what is it a lockup for them. It is not that they do not like their setting, in this text the island of Antigua, but that they can't prosper because of this people. The Americans tend to exploit small places and do not let them thrive their poverty. The financial power the big continent might employ gives them an instant superiority. That superiority won't make the envy fade away, but increase by the selfishness of taking what this island might have.
You came. You
took things that were not yours, and you did not
even, for appearances' sake, ask first. You could have
said, "May I have this, please?" and even though it
would have been clear to everybody that a yes or no
from us would have been of no consequence you
might have looked so much better. - A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Interesting, maybe this same scenario can explain or be similar to the feeling some puerto ricans have towards the United States.
ReplyDelete"The Americans tend to exploit small places and do not let them thrive their poverty" i have to things to comment about sentence that you wrote in your blog. The first thing is that I agree completely with you in telling that the people from the States exploit small places since they did the same thing to us and that the term "americans" is wrongly used in here because "americans" is a noun used to describe all of the people that lives in the continent of America, that includes people from Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, Canada etc and I thing that you are referring to the people from the United States. You also need to me careful because United States is a generic nae to describe a confederation of countries for example Mexico is divided in several states which in communion is called the United States of Mexico.
ReplyDelete"The Americans tend to exploit small places and do not let them thrive their poverty" i have to things to comment about sentence that you wrote in your blog. The first thing is that I agree completely with you in telling that the people from the States exploit small places since they did the same thing to us and that the term "americans" is wrongly used in here because "americans" is a noun used to describe all of the people that lives in the continent of America, that includes people from Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, Canada etc and I thing that you are referring to the people from the United States. You also need to me careful because United States is a generic nae to describe a confederation of countries for example Mexico is divided in several states which in communion is called the United States of Mexico.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting we just need to picture ourselves in there position to understand that not everything is "peaches and cream"
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