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>>Geeket+(OP)
All I ever hear is horror stories about this place: environmental destruction, structural racism, serious abuse of human rights, culturally hyper conservative, corrupt legal system, plus it's absurdly hot. I can't believe anyone would voluntarily go there, seems like hell on earth.

>>retube+ue
Those horror stories are mostly propaganda amplified in echo chambers of people who have never been to Dubai.

Take this "slavery" nonsense for example. There is literally no difference between migration regime of a low-skilled worker and a highly-paid "expat". Rules are the same and they are way softer than, for example, H1B.

Millions used to be spent on smearing Dubai, so we will be hearing echoes of those "horror stories" for many years.

Other horror stories, which are not propaganda, are coming from cultural deafness. A Brit gets drunk, engages in sex on a public beach and then cries about "savage laws" when gets arrested. When in Rome, do like Romans, but some people think their view is better than anyone else's. I've seen Brits who think British laws should apply to them wherever they go.

>>Aspos+ym
Ah yes, cultural relativism! Justifying barbaric behaviour since, well, the Barbarians.

>>hgomer+Go
Well, that is what I mean: some people divide the world to "civilized" and "barbaric" and anything that does not fit their world view must be barbaric of course.

>>Aspos+ks
I see no reason to declare any part of the world civilized. Some countries are further down the road to being civilized, but we should always be asking what needs improving.