The women kept waiting to get into work in the blazing heat with no food or water were Indian. Everyone knows it was a joke and didn’t believe it happened. So those outraged by it are the dumb ones.
I'm not in Qatar anymore. I lived and worked there for 3/4 years. The biggest and most important thing I learned whilst traveling and working on different places is to embrace the culture that you are living in. Also remember that you are a visitor. I certainly don't and didn't agree with many things I witnessed and saw. To me the best way to change things is from within. Some things have changed. Maybe that doesn't answer your question fully.
No. It is because no one wants for anything and everyone is happy. So the likes of Scargill used to tell us. Though they must have crime as they need police and people are in jail. Maybe they expressed a wrong opinion?
Yet people who arrive here don’t embrace our culture. They try and recreate areas where they live like they did back home and often don’t interact with anyone outside that circle. In fact we are told we are racist to expect them to and that we should embrace multiculturalism.
I went to Cuba in the early 2000s on holiday. We did a tour around Havana one day and the guide did indeed tell us that in the Socialist paradise of Cuba there was zero crime. Later as we went into the market she warned all the ladies to keep a tight grip on their handbags. I pointed out that she'd told us there was no crime in Cuba. She replied that this was the tourist market and other tourists might rob us
I see someone from the cost of living hit city of Hull has arrived in Qatar. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ive-Qatar-hunt-12-pints-ahead-Iran-match.html
You obviously know a lot about this, so take my reply as wrong and of zero significance. If you don't mind I will carry on with how I approach visiting other cultures and countries it's worked for me so far. Each time making good friends of all statuses from rich to the very poor.
No One Love armbands (joint statement from seven of the nine countries planning on wearing them, no idea who the other two were)... please log in to view this image
Quite agree with you on embracing the culture. I am equally contemptuous of those who to live in Spain and elsewhere and then only mix with fellow Brits in English and Irish bars, starting the day with an English breakfast and eating fish and chips and pie and chips and what else they have at home. Especially as the local food is often better and more suited to the local climate.
I was in Havana in 2000, walking on the Malecon got threatened by a bloke waving a machete around. 2 or 3 cars stopped immediately, the drivers all jumped out waving machetes and chased the bloke away. They apologised profusely on behalf of Cuba and said the bloke must have been a foreigner with mental health issues.
The difference though is that such Brits are not wanting or trying to undermine the local cultures (of Spain or wherever) and are not wanting to impose their own values, laws, etc.
Still do not see the point in not embracing the local culture and acting as if you were still at home.
Same mental health issues all those setting bombs off or ramming people in vehicles here have presumably? Did they expect you to believe that?
It's a bit hard for western folk to fully embrace Arab culture, much easier to just be respectful of it.
‘Everyone is welcome’ ‘You are welcome but compromise’ ‘You have a sickness in the mind’ ‘This armband is too gay’ Turns out we were never really welcome after all.
Yes, it was ironic that a bunch of guys driving around with machetes expected you to believe that if a guy had a machete he was a deranged foreigner. Maybe they were all cane cutters?
