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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is going to sound bad, but you need to know.

Are you white? Then go for it.

Are you brown/black/Asian? I’d advise against it.

There’s a very clear racial hierarchy there:

1. Gulf Arabs
2. White expats
3. Non-gulf Arabs
4. Filipinos/Asians
5. Indians/blacks

I lived there for many years. I’m white: my best friend was an Australian woman of Asian descent. She was treated like trash.

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I'd put black American expats above Filipinos. That place is horribly racist, as is most of that region. I'm black and my Filipino coworker couldn't go anywhere without being with me or our white boss. Otherwise, she would be chased out of stores. This is a well paid professional.

1. Gulf Arabs
2. White expats
3. Non-gulf Arabs
4. Western Blacks/Hispanics
4. Filipinos/East Asians
5. South Asians/Africans[/quote]

+1
I have an Asian friend married to a white guy, she told me she had to take her husband with her to do ordinary errands like going to the market to buy food, since they never took notice of her (assuming she was a maid) and had to have her husband order things. Of course they were extremely nice of the white husband, even taking his orders before the local arab ppl.

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She also told me when she went shopping by herself and could actually order things like grocery, the shop keepers would sneak to the back and fill her bag with old/expired produce and regularly con her out of things.
She told me racial tensions may seem to be bad enough here, but it is a real eye-opener to live the 'norm' in other parts of the world.[/quote]

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