Well, guess what, there's a lot of shit in this world. Go tell people to stop talking bad about Husni Mubarak, because after all, he's much better than Gaddafi and Saddam.
The fact is, people think Dubai is awesome. It's good journalism to uncover the truth about this supposed awesomeness.
Your only problem is that there are other places that are worse. As if suddenly everybody stopped noticing all the other bad places just because there's an article about Dubai.
The fact is, rich gulf states treat foreigner workers like slaves.
An interesting thing to note is how their youth are practically bullies. The same kind of bullies that PG talked about in his "nerds" essay[0], and his analysis of why people become bullies applies quite well to Dubai's situation. They are spoiled kids, they have no responsibilities, their lives are pretty pointless.
(EDIT: Lest somebody thinks I'm being racist: I'm an Arab myself.)
I'm not even sure I'd call it rich. As I understand it, they've borrowed billions from other gulf states to build their boondoggles. They even named their recently completed Burj Khalifa to honor the emir of Abu Dhabi, which bailed them out with billions when the financial house of cards collapsed.
The fact is, people think Dubai is awesome. It's good journalism to uncover the truth about this supposed awesomeness.
Your only problem is that there are other places that are worse. As if suddenly everybody stopped noticing all the other bad places just because there's an article about Dubai.
The fact is, rich gulf states treat foreigner workers like slaves.
An interesting thing to note is how their youth are practically bullies. The same kind of bullies that PG talked about in his "nerds" essay[0], and his analysis of why people become bullies applies quite well to Dubai's situation. They are spoiled kids, they have no responsibilities, their lives are pretty pointless.
(EDIT: Lest somebody thinks I'm being racist: I'm an Arab myself.)
[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html