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off late as I travel to Abu Dhabi, have started to realise that it is the capital that is actually a melting pot. I have so many nationalities having lunch together, having fun on the beach, having barbeques that its amazing. You can see Europeans, Australians, Indians, Philipinoes, Arabs all mixing around.

What went wrong with Dubai?

worldguy wrote:off late as I travel to Abu Dhabi, have started to realise that it is the capital that is actually a melting pot. I have so many nationalities having lunch together, having fun on the beach, having barbeques that its amazing. You can see Europeans, Australians, Indians, Philipinoes, Arabs all mixing around.

What went wrong with Dubai?

Abu Dhabi was always far more Cosmopolitan that Dubai

^^^ yet Dubai sells itself as the melting pot, where the ingredients never mix.^^^

worldguy wrote:^^^ yet Dubai sells itself as the melting pot, where the ingredients never mix.^^^

Do you know that or are you assuming?

I think it may be due to the fact that AD is smaller so the interaction between different cultures becomes unavoidable. Does AD also have 'ethno-specific' communities? Like Dubai has Karama for Indians, Marina for Westerners, etc?

pinoy1 wrote:I think it may be due to the fact that AD is smaller so the interaction between different cultures becomes unavoidable. Does AD also have 'ethno-specific' communities? Like Dubai has Karama for Indians, Marina for Westerners, etc?

Not so defined

Dubai has advertisements screaming - melting pot of 100+ nationalities.

AD currently has no defined "ethno-specific" communities, but that might change as Al reem, Al Raha beach get completed. But with people already good friends, I do not see that changing. I went for one barbeque and had a blast just listening to every one. The funniest part was every one taking a piss on themselves, which made all the diff.

worldguy wrote:Dubai has advertisements screaming - melting pot of 100+ nationalities.

AD currently has no defined "ethno-specific" communities, but that might change as Al reem, Al Raha beach get completed. But with people already good friends, I do not see that changing. I went for one barbeque and had a blast just listening to every one. The funniest part was every one taking a piss on themselves, which made all the diff.

To be honest if I entertain at home lets say 20 people, I will have at least 8 or 9 different nationalities, but hey thats me.

sage & onion wrote:

worldguy wrote:Dubai has advertisements screaming - melting pot of 100+ nationalities.

AD currently has no defined "ethno-specific" communities, but that might change as Al reem, Al Raha beach get completed. But with people already good friends, I do not see that changing. I went for one barbeque and had a blast just listening to every one. The funniest part was every one taking a piss on themselves, which made all the diff.

To be honest if I entertain at home lets say 20 people, I will have at least 8 or 9 different nationalities, but hey thats me.

Same here, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

Bora Bora wrote:

sage & onion wrote:

worldguy wrote:Dubai has advertisements screaming - melting pot of 100+ nationalities.

AD currently has no defined "ethno-specific" communities, but that might change as Al reem, Al Raha beach get completed. But with people already good friends, I do not see that changing. I went for one barbeque and had a blast just listening to every one. The funniest part was every one taking a piss on themselves, which made all the diff.

To be honest if I entertain at home lets say 20 people, I will have at least 8 or 9 different nationalities, but hey thats me.

Same here, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

Which I guess makes Dubai a Melting Pot for some people at least

I love you guys....gettin' all sentimental here.

Hope we one day meet and share a bottle or two and have a good laugh while we're at it.

RobbyG wrote:I love you guys....gettin' all sentimental here.

Hope we one day meet and share a bottle or two and have a good laugh while we're at it.

Sounds like a plan, and I will be able to brush up on my long forgotten Dutch

Sure, good. Can I wear my feather headdress??

Bora Bora wrote:Sure, good. Can I wear my feather headdress??

I would need so see your ID first hon.

RobbyG wrote:

Bora Bora wrote:Sure, good. Can I wear my feather headdress??

I would need so see your ID first hon.

Good point, lol

sage & onion wrote:

RobbyG wrote:

Bora Bora wrote:Sure, good. Can I wear my feather headdress??

I would need so see your ID first hon.

Good point, lol

And I will need a photo first of each of you!!

Are you crazy. Men grade the meat here (in Dubai). Not a woman.

Its not America you're in hon.

^^^You are really in the potty now!!!

^^^ your look says it all, after watching Robbie G in the mess^^^

Abu-Dhabi's alrit....initially one tends to get rather carried away with the praise, but my take is Dubai, it's way more of a melting point.

It is a melting pot to some extent.

How can Dubai be a melting pot? The people think whites look Filipino or Filipinos look European.

Clearly you miss the plot of this thread.

They say some people see the world through rose colored glasses. I think you or the people you know who see such comparisons need corrective lenses.

How in the world can people confuse whites looking like Filipino or Filipinos looking European??

Apples and oranges my dear.

It's a personal issue borabora. She's supposed to be a white person but those damn arabs keep mistaking her for a filipina maid. I think the issue is consuming her really bad.

^^^ that does not make any sense. ^^^

pinoy1 wrote:It's a personal issue borabora. She's supposed to be a white person but those damn arabs keep mistaking her for a filipina maid. I think the issue is consuming her really bad.

Sorry guys.

http://dubaiforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=29236

I think both Abu Dhabi and Dubai are melting pot, cant say the same about other states, many nationalities live in other states as well but don't really mix...or mix well

dresden wrote:

pinoy1 wrote:It's a personal issue borabora. She's supposed to be a white person but those damn arabs keep mistaking her for a filipina maid. I think the issue is consuming her really bad.

Its really a breaker to see, so keep it up.

But why in the heel those Bunny's. It isn't Easter, cause it happened before! What the cookie deal here?

This seems to have gone off track