It is like Jamaica Kincaid said: That the native does not like the tourist is not hard to explain. For every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is

Our social moorings aren’t the only things that restrain our creative impulses. We are also limited by false aesthetics: those notions that we have developed in schools and libraries, and from listening to critics that adhere to some misplaced notion of a literary canon.

The persistent tendency of educated people to migrate from areas of lesser to greater opportunity has, now, a certain inevitability; it has become an established, obvious phenomenon. In the late 1960s, however, it was both new and troubling. The loudest protests came not from U.S. xenophobes but from Third World patriots. The great mass of America'