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Originally Posted by Kona_Silat
-Learn Arabic
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In Dubai?
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-If you are non-white person (or a Western black person), you are second class to the gulf natives.
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In my experience the opposite is true (excluding the poor). Whites and Europeans are distrusted. The natives tended to warm up when I told them I was muslim. Might be different for orientals, I don't know.
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-This connects to the previous.. anything Western is good. Anything Muslim is low quality or not good enough.
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Anything western also makes a great caricature to burn.
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-If you are a white woman, expect a lot of flitarious attention from rich young Gulf Arab guys.
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That goes without saying in 90% of the world.
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-Just because they are a Muslim majority country does not mean they have Islamic values (some do drink for example , swindle and fornicate)
-Expect some outlandish actions by the government in the name of Islam.
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True on both accounts, but less than in the west. Arabs on the whole tend to be observant people, at least when it comes to the above.
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-If you score a job, have everything in writing and plan for recourse for anything that might screw you over.All in all expect to be swindled.
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Most jobs will be with western corporations and will be upheld againt employment laws of their respective country.
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-Don't be surprise at human rights violations, especially in Abu Dhabi (child slavery) or with the conditions of foreign workers
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Slavery is halal and practiced with gusto by the Arabs.
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From personal experience... I was like Lawrence of Arabia..excited about going there and then leaving the Gulf with some disenchantment with that region.
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How many Turks did you kill?