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.
breath of life;
