Native envy

A small place is a part fictional part autobiographical novel written by Jamaica Kincaid. In this book he writes abundantly about the tourist that go to Antigua he has a quote that says “But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go--so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they enjoy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for

yourself.” He speaks about how some natives may have certain bad feelings about tourist because they’re able to go places and escape their reality. Tourist many times go to places were there are people that can barely afford a living. For this poor people tourism may even seem like the people who are financially above them are scrubbing their freedom, given by their money, to them. I can

understand the feeling of this tourist, if I where living in boredom and poverty and tourist came taking photos and squandering the money that would be able to give me a good life I too would be envious. In this way it’s understandable why in many places on the world people are not too fund of tourist. In Puerto Rico I don’t think this is something that happens, we usually treat tourist better than are own people because first of all we want people to love this island as much as we do and we understand that this is very good for the economy because of the outside money that is coming in.