I always feel some type of way about the Chinese and Indian contribution to Caribbean countries.
Them, and the Syrians/Lebanese play sort of a middle man role throughout the diaspora and the world.
Great European powers come in, mess things up for centuries, and "enterprising" businessmen that are neither black or white fill in mercantile roles in these countries.
Obviously this happens in the Caribbean, Africa, and Black Neighborhoods in the US - but you can also find these racially coded middlemen in Latin America and South East Asia.
*We won't get into the Nigerian business men who do this in the Black Community and Africa. But I see those same patterns as well.
To paraphrase Malcolm X, "They come to our community, do business, and take that big pile of money back to their own neighborhood"
Being the richer, better connected, better educated class that sits atop these communities, doesn't really interact with the community, stays within their own...
Something's never sat right. Even if it is just optics, it never seems to me like there's homegrown/indigenous competition in these places. It always seems like economic domination.
Seems is the key word here... I don't have the data to back any of this up. But perception matters.