“We felt superior, for we
were so much better behaved and we were full of
grace, and these people were so badly behaved and
they were so completely empty of grace.” (30)

This sentence immediately made me think back to Disgrace and connect what Grace thought of Fiona and her nonsensical habits and mannerisms which she parades about with an air of superiority and the clothing of privilege. In both pieces, although the minority (those with less power) is less influential and wealthy than the dominant group (the actual minority and strangers to the region), they carry themselves with silent grace, knowing looks, and vitriol that they must keep to themselves in cognizance of their place in society. This sentence, in particular, does well to depict that sentiment, with the use of we, these people, and they designating the tourists/colonists as the outsiders, the ones alien to decorum, the sybaritic, empty-headed foreigners, and as amoral as they are self-deluded. Both texts, Place and Disgrace, turn the argument of civility that was the clarion call of the colonizers on its head forcing the reader to reassess their notion of what is normal or good and exhorting them to pay mind to the way they behave in foreign lands.