Is Dubai really this bad?

[Somewhatfoolish]

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/...

Well worth a read... briefly it's about Dubai being essentially 10% s and 90% slaves.

On the negative side, the article is written by Johann "Make st up" Hari and published in the Independent.

On the plus side, it sounds entirely plausible to me.

I know there are plenty of ex pats here, so waddya say?

[TheEnd]

"I approach a blonde 17-year-old Dutch girl wandering around in hotpants, oblivious to the swarms of men gaping at her. "I love it here!" she says. "The heat, the malls, the beach!" Does it ever bother you that it's a slave society? She puts her head down, just as Sohinal did. "I try not to see," she says. "


how profound, from someone who loves the heat and beaches.

[elster]

TheEnd said:

"I approach a blonde 17-year-old Dutch girl wandering around in hotpants, oblivious to the swarms of men gaping at her. "I love it here!" she says. "The heat, the malls, the beach!" Does it ever bother you that it's a slave society? She puts her head down, just as Sohinal did. "I try not to see," she says. "


how profound, from someone who loves the heat and beaches.

Let's be honest, you don't go to Dubai for the culture or history.

[f13ldy]

Somewhatfoolish said:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/...

Well worth a read... briefly it's about Dubai being essentially 10% s and 90% slaves.

On the negative side, the article is written by Johann "Make st up" Hari and published in the Independent.

On the plus side, it sounds entirely plausible to me.

I know there are plenty of ex pats here, so waddya say?

Was a Panorama special on Monday.

£120 a month. Live in 'squalor camps' with overflowing toilets, eating fish/meat 1 or 2 times a month. Rice/Bread at all other times.

Had to pay £2000 to get a 'visa' to work in Dubai against a promise of riches.

[Magog]

Sounds a lot like a J.G Ballard novel. In fact so much so that i think the Journalist might owe him some royalties, don't doubt that its all true though. Wouldn't want to be out there when it all falls apart.

[TheEnd]

Made up melodrama said:

"I saw a young homeless man, he had pictures of his children around him. I passed him a tightly folded note. He looked up at me and said "Cry not for me, for I am already dead, cry for yourself, and what you may become"
I walked on, and stopped, falling to my knees.
Had life really come to this, in my beloved Dubai?"

[Asterix]

Hmmmmmmm.

A few 'facts' seem to be close-ish but many are way off the mark. I could write a detailed response to each item to it but it would take ages.

You could come up with something similar for every city in the developing world and most in the developed world.

[King Herald]

TheEnd said:

Made up melodrama said:

"I saw a young homeless man, he had pictures of his children around him. I passed him a tightly folded note. He looked up at me and said "Cry not for me, for I am already dead, cry for yourself, and what you may become"
I walked on, and stopped, falling to my knees.
Had life really come to this, in my beloved Dubai?"

Yep, the whole lot is turgid melodrama, designed to sell copy, not state facts. Every developing country in the world has it poorer itinerant workers, earning far more than they could back home, living in squalor no worse then they live in back home, but making enough money to set up a decent lifestyle back in their own country after a few years sacrifice.

Of course, the reporter is not interested in mere facts like that, as nobody would be interested in reading the drivel.

[Simpo Two]

Somewhatfoolish said:

Well worth a read... briefly it's about Dubai being essentially 10% s and 90% slaves.

No doubt - the Arabs aren't stupid.