from Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place

If anyone is curious as to the effects of the white service industry, it is still ongoing:

The Hotel Training School, Antigua

“a school that teaches Antiguans how to be good servants, how to be a good nobody, which is what a servant is. In Antigua, people cannot see a relationship between their obsession with slavery and emancipation and their celebration of the Hotel Training School (graduation ceremonies are broadcast on radio and television)”; it is these same people that cannot see that “they are governed by corrupt men, or that these corrupt men have given their country away to corrupt foreigners. The men who rule Antigua came to power in open, free elections” (55). Kincaid blames her own people for their ignorance: “as if, having observed the event of tourism, they have absorbed it so completely that they have made the degradation and humiliation of their daily lives into their own tourist attraction” (69).