My wife and I and another couple went to Statia for a week in 1986 of scuba diving. At the time there was only one hotel and one dive operation. It was the very first country to recognize the newly independent country of the United States. As a result the British were not pleased and bombarded the country quite hard. Anyway, we were the only tourists on the island and most of the islanders were aware of us. They were holding the Miss teenage Statia contest and we were asked to be judges since we didn't know any of the contestants.
Anyway, to make a short story long, the people of the island were super friendly. For example, the 4 of us climbed to the rim of the Quill, the extinct volcano on the island, and when we got back to the bottom an islander not only gave us a ride back to our hotel but waited several minutes for the last of us to reach the bottom. He refused any offer of compensation, not even an offer of a big ice cream treat. It's a very historic island and even has a Jewish cemetery with Ladino writing on the tombstones.