24 Hours in Dubai - Dunes and Dinars

#2 Posted by devkant on June 18, 2007 4:18:59 pm

`Americans want to be Americans, and Arabs want to be Americans, the world wants to be American.`

how correct. everyone here claims they hate americans, but eventually end up aping them!!

#3 Posted by Love2love on June 18, 2007 10:44:52 pm

Great article, Naeem. Your observations hit home well. Never did like Dubai, but ironically after reading this article, I`ll give it another shot. :)

#4 Posted by devkant on June 18, 2007 11:48:14 pm

`#3 by Love2love on June 18, 2007 10:44pm PT
Great article, Naeem. Your observations hit home well. Never did like Dubai, but ironically after reading this article, I`ll give it another shot. :)`

i live in dubai and i still don`t like it. no matter how many shots you give it, i ddon`t think u will like it!!!!!

#5 Posted by txnaeem on June 19, 2007 2:39:14 am

Glad you like the article.
I refrain from calling it a ``bad`` place - its like every other country in the sense that it is struggling with its own internal issues - in this case immigration workers being at the top.

#6 Posted by raj_75 on June 19, 2007 2:56:06 am

You missed an essential point - It`s one hell of a racist country.

#7 Posted by beady on June 19, 2007 4:27:46 am

Dubai and the UAE is like a layered cake, and the cake is arranged via a complicated structure based upon skin colour, ethnicity, and religion. Although money trumps it.

Its a grotesque place, full of ghettos.

#8 Posted by samankhan on June 19, 2007 4:32:37 am

Good write up but I am still waiting to read something about the dunes!
:)

#9 Posted by Kulharee on June 19, 2007 6:02:59 am

Randhawaa Sahib, I was getting into it until I came upon the following:

“I have lunch in a local joint, and enjoy a good Lebanese meal. I order a ``leban`` (yogurt drink), and listen to the taxi drivers, labor workers and others, talking about their issues over the busy waiters and blaring television.”

I am really not sure how a Lebanese meal is local to Dubai. But that’s ok, caz all orientals are Chinese.

#10 Posted by Cobra on June 19, 2007 7:00:43 am

Dear Randhawa Sahib,

Are you from Pakistan? Are you sikh by any chance or were your ancestors sikh? After all Randhwa is a sikh last name you see!!

Sincerely,
DilliWala.

#11 Posted by devkant on June 19, 2007 7:50:01 am

`#6 by raj_75 on June 19, 2007 2:56am PT
You missed an essential point - It`s one hell of a racist country.`

i have experienced this.....in very very subtle ways.

#12 Posted by Kamath on June 19, 2007 8:48:21 am

Re: # 7

Beady dear Boy:

It is a very insightful observation. BTW how come they treat you as a Brit?

Salaam
Kamath

#13 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on June 19, 2007 9:14:09 am

{``...and don`t let the Asian on the street working in the sun worry you - he`s better off here, than where he came from. ``}

Naeem,
Ain`t that the sad truth. Very interesting article and I just loved your anguish at being unable to escape the golden arches. :)

#14 Posted by Salim_Chauhan on June 19, 2007 9:15:15 am

Naeem,
On a serious note, did Dubai remind you of Lahore in any way? :)