mesheditor wrote:here is my comment on " keep an Arab well-fed and you have full control over him " aint that applicable on everyone not only the arab ? you arab hater
Hey! I am no Arab hater
I got that saying from a UAE Local; albeit he was of Iranian descent.
The full saying went something like this: "Fatten an Arab; and starve a Persian........". I thought that was clever. Looks like you agree with it.
Of course you love your leaders (but dont, please, love them to death!
). If you didnt you wouldn't be in the UAE. You dont have a choice. You would be in exile! And where would that land you? The Commorros? With no skills set, its hard to make a living in the outside world.
As for telling the expats: no one asked you to come here.
I've heard that one before. Thats standard fare for Dubai. One only has to work and live there for about 2 years in order to understand the terror of that kind of mind set. I've seen that being said to people who've worked there for the best part of their working lives: 20 or even 30 years. Tut tut not very good, nor civilized.
What! Have one set of rules for the Locals and a different more stringent and unfair rules for the expats?? All in the name of taking care of your kind in your own country??
Thats more than racist, thats tribal!! Dont care for people from some different tribe, just sweep them away when not needed? Not good.
A cousin of mine taught me to play Poker, then layed down her own rules, so that she won no matter what kind of hand she got! Kind of put me off poker for life
The rules keep changing in the UAE, just to favour the locals.
The population of the UAE is in the ratio of 70:30. The 70% expats are not there for a holiday! 80% of those expats live in terror of being "terminated", and the 20% are hand in glove with the Locals in scams.
Having said all that, I think the UAE has done well and done well for the region. Many people have made their fortunes, but for every success, there are 10 failures! I know many people who have lost the shirts off their backs. Many because of poor business planning etc., but quite a lot have been scammed by the Locals and they did not have any recourse to any court of law.
The truth is unpalatable, and also dangerous. People have lost their lives for telling the truth. Thats not something new. Socrates was tried and convicted and executed by his own Government. His crime? He was corrupting the youth! When all he was doing was educating and informing them!
Sad story.
Lets hope that things will improve for Dubai and the UAE in general.