Thread: The Dubai-ing of America

A remarkable transformation is occurring in the desert sheikdom of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. In the ruling elite’s quest to turn the territory into the Singapore of the Middle East, the population is booming, billions in oil wealth is pouring into the country’s relatively free market, and unbelievably opulent projects are springing from the desert sands, such as the world’s tallest building and an exclusive community built on artificial islands in the shape of palm leaves.

More startling, this is just the beginning. A recent study by the government projects that the population of Dubai will reach five million by 2020 from 1.2 million today. Less than twenty percent of the population of Dubai is native born and this percentage will shrivel as the population of the emirate booms. Most of them live in government-built enclaves apart from all the foreigners who surround them.

The question is, why? What on earth do the citizens of Dubai benefit by this influx of millions of non- citizens? And what is the long-term plan for the management of these guests? Will they stay for a stretch and then return to the Philippines, or Pakistan, or Britain? Well, some undoubtedly will, but there will come a time some decades in the future when entire generations of people will have lived their entire lives as guests in Dubai and will undoubtedly begin agitating for official status. Within a blink of an eye, the natives of the emirate will become tiny minorities within their own countries.

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The question is, why? What on earth do the citizens of Dubai benefit by this influx of millions of non- citizens?

You must understand that the richest of the Arabs, and the Sheiks of Dubai certainly qualify, are too good to get their own hands dirty. They import labor to do all the dirty work. At one time, Saudi men wouldn't handle MONEY because it's dirty and they consider it beneath them to run their own shops. . The Saudis have actually pissed away a lot of thier oil money trying to keep up with the USA so some were starting to actually work in 2001. They CLAIMED it was because all the imported people were corrupt but they must have been corrupt for the past fifty years-- they dodn't get that way overnight. And I can't see people becoming thieves knowing they will get a hand cut off for their crime. But, anyway, that was the excuse. And, of course, all the American contractors in oil. construction and other industries in Saudi Arabia are horrible people because they aren't Moslems and they are "corrupting" the Islamic society. It couldn't possibly be that every kid over the age of 16 drives around in a Mercedes or a BMW and treats his mother like dirt that makes them such lovely people to be around, could it? Must be those corrupt "Khawagiin."

Dubai and the rest of the UAE will lose their fortune to laziness the same way in time.