A small place- Second Chapter

     In this second story the narrator is someone that has lived in Antigua for a long time and knows how it used to be when it was ruled by England. Her opinion is that this empire did a lot of harm to Antigua and that they never should have left their home. In this time Antigua had a Government house, a library, a bank and a Mill Reef Club. At this club the only black people accepted here were as servants. There was a lot of racism towards the native people from the English. This is why the native all thought that that this people had bad behavior.

    The native saw these strangers as rude but they did not think of them as what they were: racist. The doctors were racists and the schools were racists, they even referred to the natives as monkeys. The Antiguans even saw themselves as superior to the English because they were better behaved. Antigua revolved completely around England even though they made millions of Antiguans orphan. Antiguans saw them as crazy or ill-mannered but never as racist.

     This relationship between England and Antigua is similar to U.S.A. and Puerto Rico in the aspect that we do not see the bad things and the bad aspects that this relationship has. We see ourselves as if we completely dependent to the United States and do not find ways to be autonomous by ourselves. We see them as the good ones when they are the ones that sometimes take advantage of us.