At this point, the book states one of its main claims: the corruption and moral emptiness of tourism makes tourists into ugly people. While the narrative voice of the book, Jamaica Kincaid, draws this conclusion, she forces readers to reckon with it by casting it as the tourist’s—and readers’—realization. Several things contribute to the tourist’s ugliness, including white supremacy (which causes the white tourist to believe that their privilege comes not from their ancestors’ oppressing and enslaving Black people but from their natural superiority), a lack of connection to the local community, and the voyeuristic enjoyment of quaint—by implication, inferior if not backward—local practices.