What happens to Abu Dhabi? I am able to get along with every man/woman of any Nationality. But.....why does an Indian bumbs into my car 3 times to get out of the parking lot and does not care? (Got that on video) Why do they like to sit on top of my car? Some even have little kids jumping on my car while waiting for a cab. The Indians on top of me don't have carpets and are moving their chairs constantly. When I asked nice not to do that no more, I just received a head shaking. The Indians downstairs make me listening to their loud singing every Sunday. I can see Indians throwing their garbage beside the bins instead inside. Indian parents let their kids play and scream in the hallway, Indian kids play ball on the sidewalks and hit cars constantly. What is wrong with you? Why can't you respect other peoples property? Why don't you care if you damage what belongs to me?
Do you really think because you are the majority of the UAE population you can do what you want to? Please do not get me wrong. I am not racist and I do not want to offend anybody. I am just stating some facts.
Hope you do not want me to start on Pakistanis/Indians driving. That's a different subject. I just would like to know why so many of your Nationality are so ignorant. (Of course not all). Are you getting taught RESPECT for other people and their property in your home country? If yes is the answer, why so many then forget about it as soon as they come here? I am Indian by heritage, I live in the west, but I do know what you are talking about. I will try my best to answer your question.
Most of the working class Indians (we are not talking professionals) that the UAE has - are straight from the village. These people have never been in a car (some have not seen a car), they have never owned a flat, all their growing up "outside" influence is from the Indian media. The loud music you hear is probably Hindi movie songs. The parents who let their kids scream in the hallway and play on the sidewalks, are not aware that the kids should be taken to a park or playground. No one has ever pointed it out to them, and if it is pointed out - there are no consequences for ignoring the unspoken etiquette rules. The parents have never been taught and so the children are not taught...and the cycle carries on....
They are not aware of how to respect someones property as they have never owned anything that valuable. Only when they work hard for something and someone destroys or damages it do they realize. They come to the middle east and get "rich" as they make more money in the middle east then they ever would living in India. These people are not educated enough - they do not know basic things like not to make noise when you live above someone. It is something completely alien to them, they are used to screaming and acting without any repercussions. The head shaking is because they do not understand what you are saying and if they do, they do not have enough of a realization to follow it.
I am not trying to be disrespectful of my people. But, the uneducated masses will behave this way.
The best analogy I can make is borrowing from Plato. These people lived in a cave all their lives, suddenly they are shown a door out of the cave when they go out of the door they see a world they have never seen before. So, they behave the best way they can to adapt without any formal teaching or training. They have never seen or done half the things while living in India and it is all available in UAE.
The only thing I can say is that I feel for you. And the only way out of this rut is education and awarness in those people. UAE pays better wages than India, but not enough to draw the decent crowd, so what you have is uneducated villagers doing various jobs in your country.
@ Fanano : The Indians used your things etc. because they do not know to bring their own things. And if they did, they are too cheap to buy their own. They think that what is laying around is for them to use as they please (I am not saying this is the correct thing to do).
Whoever is the director of the operation for the remodelling job should be approached and asked to provide supplies to the workers so they do not damage your personal property.
Do not hesitate in telling the workers not to use your things. The best way to deal with it is to tell them that you will cut their wages if they damage your property in anyway (including buckets, pails, whatever else you have).
I hope this helped. I live outside India, I go back to visit often, and I run into such problems.
I still love my heritage even with all its craziness and flaws. The people need basic education and rules with consequences. They try my patience many a time when I am back in India. I have learnt to adjust.
I have never visited the UAE, but I have been to Kuwait. I suspect you get a similar crowd to that of the Kuwaitis, that is what I am basing my response on, along with 'h's' examples. Indians please stop giving thumbs down everyone's facts. Report It
LOOOOOOL H, you made me laugh
As living in doha, we have the same thing going on, but what facinates you is this
me parking my NEW car in a PARKING ZONE, get back to my car see the back FULLY SCRATCHED!!!!
It was an indian / pakistani majority street!
OR, my friends car, was scrached in the front with the word (B!t<h) !!
OR, me driving, minding my own business when someone crosses over my way, and HORNS my brains out!
So, H, What can we do?? We won't accept the wages they are getting, if we did, well, the gulf will be FREE from such people that don't care but themselves! We all suffer from those ignorant people you mentioned above!!
I really don鈥檛 know what to say right now.
No words can express and convey my feelings, though I鈥檝e got lots to burst out!
Uhh and the worst part is them acting as if they own the country!! As if they鈥檙e the locals and not us!! H,
100% with you.
100% agree with you.
100% facts by you.
100% supportive to you
with you all the way - 100% !
I am over-pissed by their majority (word meant for no stereotyping), they aren't loyal to their jobs!
In our home, an easy job for renovating two small bathrooms should take a maximum of 1 month, guess what? Our house has been in plastics since the beginning of Ramadan until now .. over 4 months, their Job is terrible .. but we are living with it because we cannot suffer any more of their rude and disliked acts. Smoking in the house (although I have a 1 year old infant that will sleep in that room after they are gone!!). also laying down with their sweat on sofas on that bedroom, using my dogs buckets and utilities for construction without my permission - should they get their own utilities before coming here? instead of ruining half of the house for fixing a junkie job like theirs??
I have been through Hell and Delay .. I am fed up of them.. they are ruining everything .. everything .. I just cant wait when most of the country is built, and when Locals that are hiding themselves and originally from the lower class take place of them .. this is going over borders !!!! I wish to calarify something discussed earlier, i guess a day or two back, my view on kids being sissy down here was meant for expats which I should have made it clear in my question or the subsequent reference. Local kids are simply great!
Second thing, I agree that while in ROME (UAE) DO AS ROMANS (UAE PEOPLE) DO. People living here, irrespective of their nationalites, should show at least some decency when it comes to going out on some picnic, driving or for that matter running daily chores. Majority of people, hailing from different cultures, do start respecting, observing the norms and regulations of the UAE here, still some remain defiant. Back home, I have seen people crashing Qs, gates etc in order to get some ticket or reach some venue before anyone else, but the same people start behaving when they landed in the UAE. No one can force anybody to behave nicely, I gusess it comes, but naturally or how one is brought up. You must have seen many people from the same community (you complained about) behaving nicely also. So it takes all sorts to make this (UAE) World. I wish people should start behaving like decent human beings. Just a wish.! uh indians & pakistanies !! and i receive blames on the way i reply to them ..
to be honest, i have good indian friends, or friends from indian roots, but they're neat, polite and respectful + they're less than 1% of the whole indians ..
yes they're noisy
yes they're untidy
yes they're acting stupidly insane
but how to solve that !!
they're taking over the country just because of they're population rate here !!!!!!! OMG i cant really stand it !!
and - h - .. this isn't it, i used to know indian people who complain about the UAE and Abu Dhabi !!!!!! can you imagine !! ok people if you dont liike it just leave !!
not only indians & pakistanies .. egyptions, syrians, jordanians, palastanians and these people from Sham countries, they complain about the life in UAE .. then go back to your home country !! why you're still here ??
they benefit from the country's blessings and yet complain about it !! Dear Friend !
Tolerance please ! Pardon them as God has pardoned thee . I absolutely agree with you. Even though I am Indian, I myself am very ashamed to call myself one, because of the disgusting habits of most of the Indians, especially the ones coming from the South. These people for the first time have come out of a dingy places in South India, and have never seen luxury life and cant adjust here and tend to do all this rubbish.
Please dont categorise Indians as one community, there are so many communities in this country and because of the vast majority of uneducated Indians, it spoils the name of the rest.
The people who you are referring to here are definately South Indians. I think you need to refer to them as either Keralites / Malayalees or Tamilians, rather then generalising the word Indian.
No offense meant to anyone, but i am too disgusting with their ways. Although I am from Pakistan but I agree with you that, we people are illiterate, ill mannered and short-tempered. I feel all that you are talking about here in my surrounding. On the top of all, that when you try to explain to the people that they are crossing the limit they would never be polite in its response, and all this is mind-sucking situation, the change might take place in centuries. H, I'd agree to almost all what you said. I've seen it all. But I've a question for you... Why are these people here? And I'm sure you know the answer. They are here because a lot of the companies don't want pay much salaries. Most of the companies want under paid employees, and they end up taking people from villages and remote places. And the UAE government is allowing it... So if you are paying for peanuts, of course you'll get peanuts. And for sure peanuts doesn't taste as good as almonds do :P (Some might prefer peanuts lol)
Oh well, I'm from India too. Because people in the Gulf region think of Indians as dark skinned, dirty and stinking... most of the time people are surprised when they come to know that I'm Indian. Last time while I came back from India, on the passport check, the lady was surprised to see me holding Indian passport. She asked me, "Indian?" "Yes", I said. "Mumbai?" She asked again. "No I'm from Delhi", I replied. She smiled and handed over my passport. Similar thing happened one more time. Just because I'm fair skinned and I've long hair, they think I'm not Indian.
India is a huge country. Food, lifestyle and language changes every 300 kms you travel. And the sad part is, what UAE or Gulf countries has seen is just a part of India. So a part of India isn't what represent India as a country. There is much more to India... Wow this isn't exactly fair, I am an Arab and I have seen Arabs do almost all of these things that you have said Indians do. Let's try to be fair, it's generally better if we as civilized people avoid these sterotypical and general comments, no matter how true they are. These kinds of conversations can only cause more damage than repair. I don't understand how asking this question is going to solve anything. There are good and bad from every corner of this planet, so it would be better if you adopted this view. |
