H-E-H ??

H-e-H-isms are the rantings of an Egyptian monkey raised in the grimy backstreets of east London. This monkey wakes to find a warm climate replaced with cold, umbrella-reversing gales; fuul has become bacon and eggs; and the exotic and seductive eastern beauty is now a 4-foot-high pensioner called Doris...

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Dubai PLC

Dubai – a city built on the PR of middle managers from Essex.

Never before have I been to a city where so many nationalities live alongside each other, yet never truly integrate.

It’s unique, in fact.

It has been billed as the most international and cosmopolitan city where over a hundred languages are spoken. But, for those who argue against multiculturalism, they have a case in point in Dubai.

On a general level Brits, South Asians, Filipinos, Arabs, Americans – all live incubated lives, unwilling to mix with the other. Meanwhile, the world hears of a melting pot of cultures where all are tolerant of one another.

The quicker people wake up and realize it is a city built on fabrication – both physical and ideological – the better.

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