honestly I hate when white people visit the caribbean and treat it as a place where everyone is chill and everyone just relaxes and sits on the beach and everything runs on “island time” whatever the fuck that means.
living in the islands is fucking hard and poverty is real and tourism isn’t doing enough to really help fix the endemic problems that plague the caribbean
like y’alls money is going to big resorts instead of into the local economies usually, and meanwhile these people whose lives you exotify and idealize bc you dont understand what it truly means to live in the caribbean literally have to serve you in order to survive
what kinda neo-colonialist bullshit
This is a very serious problem and anyone interested in the subject should read A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid!!! It’s an excellent look at how colonialism persists through the tourism industry.
No but seriously.. My cousins in Grenada are living in basically a shed with no indoor plumbing because of hurricane Ivan that happened 12 years ago. Like people are still greatly affected by that hurricane, but they chose to build a sandals resort & a new cricket stadium.
Not to mention trying to ban locals from Grand Anse beach. White people don’t belong in Greenz.
I knew whites people were cruel when this group of white people did a snap call toward one of the waiters. I was in DR and they treated the staff like they weren’t people; rarely ever tipping them. While the black and Latino people were laughing and speaking Spanish the best they could to accommodate the staff.
Shit I spoke Spanish to one staffer; fucked around and almost had me a wife. She looked at me and said “que lindo papi. You speak Spanish?” I was like ah shit get you yo fine ass away from me. lol
But yeah white people have this weird disconnect that they should really look into.
