Travelers/Tourists

In the first chapter of “A small place” Jamaica Kincaid describes Antigua, were she was born. Kincaid describes the place as if you were arriving at first by plane as a tourist. It’s actually outstanding because we have learn that the tourists, well most of them, have different way of seeing things when they are on a new place. Especially when some tourists start to criticize for just being there such a short time living. That’s the bad thing about tourists, they tend to compare everything to their own home. That’s a tendency that they have and by doing that it narrows their minds to maybe explore newer things or cultures.

            This chapter Jamaica Kincaid gives examples on what tourists can say when they are in a new place for them. It’s like our discussion in class were we have to find comments on what people say about Puerto Rico and how they see it. In my behalf I found some negative comments about Puerto Rico that some famous or known people had said. Even though they actually had there apologizes after the comments they did. So even though they did the bad comments they actually apologize but after the comments were publish. So it can be look on both sides. On the first chapter we see how Jamaica Kincaid illustrates the tourists and their comments. Maybe she wrote it like that to open the eyes of people so that they think it twice before making a comment. Maybe it’s because she left Antigua and she is writing since she left and when she came back and how she felt when she arrived. Either way it was a nice thing to write because as I say earlier it opens the minds of other people or tourists to a better way.