Ketchup Episode II: The Empire of Indians Strikes Back
Ok. Emirati with his Godfather fixation (is fixation another word for fetish?) was happy with this one. I caught his little post… ‘I guess Zogby was right’ with reference to this post on ‘Insert Witty Blog Title Here’ and the unreported strikes in Dubai. Today I will eat a humble pie and ask when is the UAE going to learn to treat these Indians laborers with a little more dignity? We should raise the minimum wage for them or just deport them back coz there is too much of them here anyway. We cannot continue to treat other human beings as some kind of disposable work force because they are not the same race as us, haram.It is time we started to build our country in the right way. So instead of allowing apparently str8 Iraninan and East African Emiraties to act as arse fillers for rich limp wristed westerners living in Satwa just to get some extra bling (see next post), how about employing more of them into the service and labour industries that the Indians are working in now?
What Nomaadic failed to mention on his Getting Cross Cultural expose on Balushi and E African Emiraties is that a lot of them are still imported in from their mother countries to this very day and are still being nationalized, so this is NOT some old historical phenomina. Many of these latter imports cant even speak Arabic, (which I don’t have a problem with since their roots are from my country anyway), but there are enough of them back in their birth countries who are too broke too poor and can fill the role Indians play today here. They will be happy to come to Dubai and work in the day as a toilet cleaner and at night drive around in a brand new 2006 Nissan Sunny or Toyota Corolla with 99.9% blacked out windows and loud booming system…Ya3ny this isn’t a bad thing for them because when they are Khaleejised into Emiraties they will of course be treated and payed better than back in their birth countries when they are getting a minimum wage of AED 3000 for doing (or cleaning) jack shit. True?
By the way we shouldn’t even have poor Emiraties because this wasn’t our father’s vision for this country. Sheikh Zayed wanted to lift everyone up. I go to Kuwait and see that they are all rich, with their strange dish-dashas and same looks (all Q8ts have the same face, ever noticed that?) but back in the UAE which has a better infrastructure and more solid diversified economy, I still have poor Local friends who live in squalid conditions (by my standards) and I am now running out of excuses to tell them why I wont stay the night at their places.
So some suggestions:
A) We need more locals in the UAE or else we will become extinct soon, so yeah import more Iranians (shi’te or sunni I don’t care) nationalize those with roots here and also help the Balushi cause by nationalizing them aswell. Also bring in more East Africans who are of Arab origins and nationalize them (but keep the gangsta wannabe’s out).
B) Nationalize some others aswell: 1) Those who marry Local women (common you know and I know it happens more than is admitted). As long as they are Muslim this should be the most important thing. Whether they are Arab or not and if they should be nationalized should be judged on a case by case basis. 2) Westerners who perhaps convert and feel like they are living in limbo and don’t belong to any culture, make them legible aswell but with certain rules and conditions.
C) Other Arabs who have been living here for a long time and who are more Emirati than most Emiraties but are originally national to some seriously fcuked up regimes (like a couple of Levantine and North African nations I can think of) should be nationalized.
Yes we need some changes. Diversify the gene pool, increase the population, end the inbreeding and no longer be the minority in our own country.
posted by Jassim @ 9:08 PM
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