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redeyes
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trapezius
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| 'A guest is a gift from God' goes the popular Arab saying. The hospitality of the Middle East is legendary, and Saudi Arabia had proved no exception. During our weeks on the road and over the course of the 11,250km we clocked up, our car had become so stuffed full with presents that I now called it 'Abdullah's mobile bazaar'. |
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| The hospitality was such that I found I had only to show the slightest interest in a subject, the least liking, and my 'wishes' were granted or dreams became true. |
How very nice for her.
Good thing she was born with the blessed skin hue. I wonder what sort of hospitality she would have received from Abdullah and the princes for who she became a parcel to be bandied about were she Sri Lankan, Indonesian, Indian, Nigerian, or Papua New Guinean.
Also, I wonder what sort of hospitality she would have received (with her own skin hue) had she knocked on the doors of >50% of the Saudi homes, which happen to be staunchly conservative, parochial, xenophobic, and anti-'infidel'. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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| My, trapezius really does feel bad about this skin colour business. |
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trapezius
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Just setting the record straight and toning down her wildly enthusiastic and falsely generalized comments about her experience.
Are you disagreeing with me? You have been here for eons... you know how it is here. |
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Cleopatra
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Oh for god's sake, the woman is simply writing a travel blog describing her personal experiences during a trip to KSA! She's not doing a PHD thesis on the sociology and race relations of the Kingdom. There were no 'false generalisations', simply an account of her trip - the thing that upsets those of our posters with Mt. Everest sized shoulder chips is that it was broadly positive.
Do you expect everyone who writes brief accounts of brief foreign sojourns to 'balance' their comments by adding sociological 'insights' they do not have the experience to provide? |
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scot47
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| Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Mr Trapezius refuses to come to terms with the idea that we live in an unjust world. |
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veiledsentiments
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Well, one hopes that she doesn't write her Lonely Planet guide suggesting that everyone who shows up in the Kingdom is going to be whisked off to meet ministers and princes. I would also hope that she would do a bit of research to paint a slightly more realistic portrait of KSA as a tourist attraction.
Most tourists will likely not be there long enough (assuming that they ever do actually start to give out the long reported tourist visas) to get a taste of the bad side.
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Cleopatra
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Well, one hopes that she doesn't write her Lonely Planet guide suggesting that everyone who shows up in the Kingdom is going to be whisked off to meet ministers and princes.
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Where does she mention being whisked off to meet ministers and princes?
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I would also hope that she would do a bit of research to paint a slightly more realistic portrait of KSA as a tourist attraction.
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Well, if the previous LP guide to KSA is anything to go by, I'm sure she will. My point is that a short travel blog is basically an informal traveller's diary - one should not realistically expect it to go into detail regarding the treatment of 'brown' workers in the Kingdom. |
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