Links for 2009-04-15
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More on Dubai: Responding to "
The dark side of Dubai," Desert Blogger reminds readers, "it's important to get things in perspective. The lack of media freedom … has the unfortunate side effect of destroying credibility … it is simply not possible to differentiate the truths from the half-truths, and the assumptions from the downright lies, unless you are here, staring it in the face." But here's the thing, while the Independent article definitely had a marxist slant, its main point re: the socioeconomic structure of Dubai is not being refuted. Instead, critics reply with …
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First World retorts: "As far as I can tell there is a crunch going on, just like everywhere else…. The mood is the same, if not maybe slightly more upbeat than the US or Japan these days. Instead of taking an hour and a half to get across town, it takes half an hour, instead of 3 days in advance reservations for the lounge/bar at The Address, it's 2 days and you can usually get a table at the nice restaurants with less than a hour wait now … usually."
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And umbrage: "Say for example that I had written an article that states that, in wealthy first world Britain there are 380,000 homeless people, many of them mentally ill, starving and abandoned in sub-zero temperatures to live on the streets …" Be polite? That's where that argument goes. But avoiding the subject gets no closer to answering the question the Independent reporter started with: What is daily life and the economy like in Dubai now, especially for immigrant laborers?
Posted by Delicious in Miscellany on 04/15/2009 @ 7:31 am / Follow @railbird on Twitter
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