@RmSalih I think in the end, we will never treat people as well as our citizens, and this will always be a point of contention
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Obaid AlZaabi
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Obaid AlZaabi
@Obaidsview
Emirati Thinker and Doer
أبوظبي, الامارات العربية المتح Katılım Aralık 2024
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@Obaidsview In all seriousness, the natives are not liked at all by the majority of the population. No one says this to your face because of fear of consequences but it's the truth. Glad I got the chance to say it to an Emirati here. I hope you guys fix up and treat people better.
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If "We are all Emirati":
- Why do low wage labourers get turned away from shopping malls?
- Why do labourers get their passports confiscated?
- Why do maids get abused by their Emirati employers?
- Why does one law apply to Emiratis and another to the 85% who will never get a passport or other rights no matter how long they live there?
- Why are non Emiratis one argument away from deportation?
- Why are Emiratis so bloody rude to everybody they consider beneath them?
Yeah, we are all Emirati.
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@Mushy1983 @RmSalih Its a desert with a hyper conservative culture, I assumed people were coming for the money
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@RmSalih @Obaidsview Most people dislike the Emirates. I can assure 90% world and people go only to make money . UAE is soulless country who treat people badly
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@RmSalih Shame, you didnt have a better experience
You know what they say, the same man never steps in the same river twice
Maybe next time youll enjoy it more
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@Obaidsview Been to The Emiratis over a dozen times. Talk to people living there all the time. I know what it's like.
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The attitude from women & men on this issue are completely opposite.
This difference originates purely from survival & breeding needs of primitive era, it's literally carved into our DNA, unalterable.
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Me: "ChatGPT, I'm 32, 85kg, Indian vegetarian. Make me a fat loss plan."
ChatGPT: "Sure! Breakfast: Greek yogurt with quinoa and blueberries. Lunch: Grilled tofu salad with avocado. Dinner: Zucchini noodles with pesto."
Me: "Bro I live in India."
ChatGPT: "You're right. Here's your updated plan: Dal, roti, sabzi."
Me: "That's what made me 85kg."
ChatGPT: "You're right. Would you like me to list 10 reasons why Indian diets fail?"
And this is the reliability of AI giving you health advice right now.
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Otter mom brought her baby to “show and tell”, and otter dad showed up with a rock like it was his prized possession.
During a keeper talk at the San Diego Zoo, staff brought the otters up close so families could see them better. One otter mom waddled forward and proudly presented her baby, and the kids immediately started cheering and pointing. Then her partner decided he deserved the spotlight too.
He didn’t bring a baby. He brought a smooth little rock, holding it like it was priceless, and sat there looking around as if he was waiting for applause. The keeper laughed and told the crowd he was basically saying, “Hey… I brought something too,” because some otters get oddly attached to favorite objects and will carry them around like treasures.
The baby got the “aww,” but the rock got the biggest laugh.
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The problem is mostly the Ottoman and later Turkish adoption of Arabic-Islamic civilization as their dominant cultural foundation. In many ways, what we see is a largely former Byzantine population that was gradually Islamized and culturally Arabized under the rule of a relatively small group of conquerors.
If Turks were to move away from this Arabic-Islamic foundation, it would likely be good not only for their neighbors but for Turks themselves as well. It would mean freeing themselves from the chains of Arabic cultural colonization.
But unfortunately history shows that once the Arabic cultural sphere takes hold, it is extremely difficult to reverse. Egyptians, Syrians, and Lebanese, for example, largely lost their older cultural identities and civilizations as they became Arabized.
Iran is another case of a civilization that was Arabized and where a society with enormous intellectual and civilizational depth often now finds its vast energy diverted into foreign ideological struggles that only inhibit its growth.
Aramean Radical@Aramean_Armenia
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@Steven1912331 @xspotsdamark The world was crazy back in the day
But we didnt do anything, and would never
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Reminder that the so-called “Arab slave trade” in Africa is mostly a fiction invented by 19th century British abolitionists & Imperialists to justify European colonization of Africa. When I push back on this narrative, Africans accuse me of defending Arabs.
Wilfred Reilly@wil_da_beast630
Nonsensical. Slavery Was Very Bad, but the idea that we can definitively identify the worst thing in history - and that it was the 10-20% of the historical human slave trade led specifically by whites - is just damned absurd. Some other contenders: The Mongol Conquests The Fall of Rome WW2/the Holocaust The Black Death New World population collapse Communism The Steppe and Bantu Migrations The Arab conquests/slave trade Etc.
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@Steven1912331 @xspotsdamark Hes 90+ and its wild to hear but a long long time ago he stopped because it was illegal
The world was a wild place
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@404K2D Its already happened
A lot of Israeli business men prefer to live in Dubai already because of the busines environment
In the end, the two centres of the world in the 21st century are Istanbul and Dubai
Respect to the Turks, they are strong
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@Obaidsview “The UAE and the Gulf is the future the global economic system”. That will never happen when you allow Israel to put your economy and imagine at risk.
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So far, being an Emirati, I had no frame of reference for a war in the Gulf besides the first Gulf War
Now I see the world has changed, the Gulf can stand on its own feet, as it couldn't before, and face challenges that we could never have conceived of
The UAE and the Gulf is the future the global economic system, the deep interest of all parties and the high level of sophistication shown in this war makes this claim totally justified.
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@Obaidsview Do Emaratis think that a non Muslim country in the faar west would protect them? Even if you give them finances, invest in their countries and what not they won't protect you. It's common sense...
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@adil_theleopard @cigarettesummer People talking shit about us
Why not respond?
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@Obaidsview @cigarettesummer Emiratis on edge the minute Dubai is mentioned
Asked an Emirati family member if they were alright just after the attacks, and they got offended by the question 😂 like wtf
Kept saying we're outside like some gangster in Harlem 😂😂😂
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The only recorded account of th Tanzanian genocide of Arabs, and many other crimes perpetrated by Africans following independence
Because We Live Here 🇺🇸@BWLH_
Africa Addio > Considered the most “racist” movie/documentary ever made > Italian filmmakers simply turned the cameras on and documented blacks taking control of formerly White-run colonies in Africa in 1960s > Admit in the book they filmed Congolese eating 13 Italian airmen…
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@xspotsdamark @GhostofOkello Im not sure about West Africa, but slavery was huge in the Gulf
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@GhostofOkello They are intentionally conflating African Muslims with Arabs. Most of the so-called “Arab slave trade” was in actuality trade between African Muslim polities”. There are are scares instances of Africans being trafficked to the Arab world as slaves
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@Samaadou @nziokamul1 You are a stupid idiot! Their land, their choice with what to do with it!
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"At least I have left my people with land, Mandela left his with poems, quotes and a statue"
~Robert Mugabe
Apropos_KE@Apropos_KE
The ONLY African with the balls to ask white colonisers to give up land and fuck off! They punished his country for 30 years, and demonised him all the way. But he stood firm to the end.
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Wow, the Africans are venerating Mugabe...
Nzioka Muli@nziokamul1
"At least I have left my people with land, Mandela left his with poems, quotes and a statue" ~Robert Mugabe
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Accurate description of the impotent Iranian military response to the war
د. أنور قرقاش@AnwarGargash
الاستراتيجية الإيرانية التي تعكس عدم قدرتها على مواجهة الضربات الأمريكية والإسرائيلية عبر استهداف دول الخليج العربي تكشف عجزًا عسكريًا وإفلاسًا أخلاقيًا وعزلةً سياسية. لن تغطي هذه الحقيقة التصريحات الإعلامية المضللة. العودة إلى الرشد تبدأ بوقف استهداف الجيران وتفعيل وساطاتهم. وفي الإمارات نثبت كل يوم أن صلابتنا أقوى من حقد المعتدي.
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