A Small Place Identity

     During the journey that “A small place” takes the readers there are descriptions of stereotypes to which different people can identify. In the Antigua that Jamaica Kinkaid describes the foreigners they were the Syrians and the Lebanese their identity in the book is to immigrate to another place from their mainland with the money enough to make the government their ally their role in the Antiguan society was to make as much money as possible exploiting the island’s “vulnerability”. There were the white people who are Europeans and American which mostly went to the island as tourists to spend their money and experience what was like to enjoy feeling alone where ever they travel while at the same time be opportunistic because if they found something they could benefit off they would have stayed too same as the foreigners. Aside from white and foreign people in the book the British as people who thought too much of themselves and which took a position of wealth and power quickly because they wanted to implant their system with new roads, government buildings and banks this plays the role when England had power with the crown and wanted to conquer the world. Lastly there were the Antiguans which are identified with being servants and being deemed by society as a lower class race like many black people are in which case stereotypes them into being basically known like slaves from the people that intruded in their land. A small place has a lot of identity descriptions which stereotypes people from that time and the presents time also in the cases that apply like the American which can be identified the same way, not so much from England because since the lost their word conquering war the settled for their land.