Thanks for the compliments. And yes, my love for my little home town always comes out in my writing…

I am glad to hear you are battling false perceptions in those you are teaching. You play a very important role in your student’s lives, more than they know. SO much of what is ingested on either side of the cultural fence is intentional programming; cultural conditioning by the powers that be, to covertly install pre-conceived learning mechanisms in their malleable populace of ready made souls…

The same happens here, as people are programmed with many falsehoods about the West. As much as some may not view it as such, there is an international culture war going on, and the truth is being set aside in the name of hegemonic agendas. Keep up the fight my friend, your students, as well as the world around you, needs every available heart and mind to wage the battle for what is right…

Thanks for your comment, as I always appreciate different persepctives. However, yours seems a bit narrow. Yes, the labour camps are terrible places in Dubai. Yes, people come here and work long full time hours for next to nothing, in comparison to other countries. Yes, these people live like rats, fifteen to a room…

To use your own words, however, “like most Westerners, you slide over” the facts. What is happening in Dubai is based on a template for expansion, expertly designed by imperialsist Europe. They are only following our wonderful lead, the Empire building ways if the British, the French, the Spanish and more recently The United States. We set a fine example, don’t you think?

And unlike the United States, these people were not hit over the head, chained up, thrown into cages, and brought like animals on cargo boats to a land on the other side of the planet. That was is in fact real slavery…