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No no I totally agree. I saw that vid and was also horrified. Having said that Dubai is always getting a bashing from people who have NEVER even been here. C'mon.... theres only so much I will take a persons opinion on something they personally know zilch about.
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So you’re agreeing the video is horrifying yet you’re surprised when people think Dubai isn’t great?
After those kinds of videos, reports are we supposed to think something else? 
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Go sit in Algeria and read bbcnews.co.uk... you'll have a heart attack.
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And you expect to be taken seriously? :D
Thanks for proving my point! Go and drink a cool glass of mango lassi.
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Mate I was never defending Dubai for its pavements of gold... I was only saying I'm glad to have left UK... Youve lost track of who you were fighting with. I think you may need that mango lassi more than I do.
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I am not the one who is telling others to have a heart attack :D
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tou kya decide hua:aq:
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Jeez get a grip everyone. I can't even enjoy Clash of the Titans properly.
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Dubaiwali trying hard to save the reputation of Dubai :D Keep going xD
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I was talking to an Emirati girl about a year ago. She told me only 1 in 5 of the people in the UAE were actually Emirati. The rest were expats and immigrants.
So for that 1 in 5, life is mostly great. They're rich and Arab, and VASTLY privileged.
For the rest, you'll have your top crust who is affluent and well off, have a fun time in Dubai because it's a fun place to be I'm sure. But what about the majaority of the workers? Those who are sweating their asses off in the summer heat, who have their passports confiscated by their employers so they can't return to their homes until they've paid off their 'debt.' God forbid, what happens if you find yourself in a conflict with an Arab? Do you have any hope for justice?
The fact is, we can get all jingoistic here, and its fun to see people addressing Dubai with an inclusive pronoun 'we' (as if, if push came to shove, you'd ever be treated equally to the natives) but the fact is, objectively speaking, UAE is beautiful cake with a cream topping and rotten base. Great for the people eating the top layer, but you get any deeper, and you're in for nothing more than cra@p.
Those of us who are dissing the UK, I have lived up and down the UK, and only once for a very short period of time (a matter of a few months) did I live in a typically 'desi' area. Most of the time I have lived in a white-majority area. You have your incidents here and there, but for the most part, the British are one of the most tolerant and open-minded people in the world, which is why you'll see Muslims and Pakistanis in the arts, media, politics, business and higher education. Much more so (as a percentage of the population) than you would in any other European or Arab country.
As Hazrat Ali (a) said: A Society can live on empty stomachs, but never on injustice.
Let's just say, Allah forbid, if I was to go to a court of law, I'd much rather do it in Britain than UAE. And I think that's what it boils down to. The REAL things that matter, equal rights, free healthcare and education, equal job opportunities, a free and fair justice system that treats the native the same as the immigrant...
Britain not only beats UAE, it bloody well chases it down the street with a broom.
Apart from this, there is good and bad everywhere, and some people may love Dubai and others may not, and it is the same with the UK.