Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place

The colonial way of thought comes since the beginning of colonization when the Europeans established superiority in the colonies. Throughout the ages the small colonies suffered the consequences of the Europeans and their obsession to being better than everyone else. This lead that in the future of the natives of the colonies or former colonies to create a new wave of thought, it is called eurocentrism. Thanks to eurocentrism we have created a culture and society where we aspire to be European and by living with this ideal in mind we have created a need to please and serve tourist and outsiders. We do this to show them that we are equal to them or that we are just like them when we are not. A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid highlights the relationship the colony has we the colonizer throughout her native island of Antigua.
The colonizers of the islands in the Caribbean were all Europeans who later brought in African slaves to work the land. Like any good European you must assert superiority especially to the black slaves you brought. As a European colonizer would only hire workers whose skin was lightest. This prejudice came with the idea that the white you are the more trustworthy or better you were than the black workers. This thought came from seeing the whites as rational and the blacks as wild as seen in “West Indians and Créoles in the Smaller Islands” in The Roots of Caribbean Identity: Language, Race and Ecology by Peter Roberts page 64.
He states that in the early days of colonial society the blacker you were the more savage and wild you were seen in society. However, the whiter you were the better, because you could get better jobs and you weren’t so judge by society. The people started seeing that as the more you acted European the better chances of having a good life