Posted on 11/10/2018 7:57:06 AM PST by lowbridge
I lived in Saudi Arabia for a while in the nineties.
This is their normal. Kinda like the frequency of shootings in Chicago.
Execute the Saudi ambassador.
That’ll send a message.
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(sofar...Visited there once)...LOL..
Just curious: why do any Indonesians go work in SA?
We are interacting with far worse(China, Russia) almost in every aspect we are choosing the lesser of two evils..
Be cause it sucks in their country!!!
You’re right.
These kind of countries don’t see the foreign workers they import from poor countries as quite human. It’s the norm in hellholes to view others in this fashion. Our ‘elites’ do a similar thing with the third world types they import... which is why they’re discouraging middle class Americans from having children. Peasants are more ‘fun’... grateful, and can be roughed up if they get out of line.
There’s not enough gold, silver, fine cloth or ‘polite society’ BS to cover up this kind of filth.
You’re right.
These kind of countries don’t see the foreign workers they import from poor countries as quite human. It’s the norm in hellholes to view others in this fashion. Our ‘elites’ do a similar thing with the third world types they import... which is why they’re discouraging middle class Americans from having children. Peasants are more ‘fun’... grateful, and can be roughed up if they get out of line.
There’s not enough gold, silver, fine cloth or Mika and JOE type ‘polite society’ BS to cover up this kind of filth.
Money....
Same with Filipinos, Pakistanis, Indians, Sri Lankans, Americans, and Europeans....
For Third Worlders like Indonesians and Filipinos. one person working in Saudi can support an entire family back home. But they are treated very badly. One surrenders one’s passport when working long-term in Saudi and is issued an ‘iqama’, i.e. a residence permit. Your employer holds your passport, and even if you get it back you have to get an exit visa in order to leave. If you’re working, let’s say, as a domestic, you are at the mercy of the male head of household. Obviously this leads to a lot of abuses.
There is a definite pecking order, Americans, Canadians, and Euros at the top, closely followed by Japanese and Koreans, then probably Indians and Pakistanis and Filipinos, then the Indonesians and Sri Lankans and Somalis etc at the bottom. The higher up the better you are treated but if you’re an infidel you’re still an infidel.
I could go on and on... how much time do you have ?! LOL.
We shouldn’t be friend with Saudi Barbaria. I don’t care if they have oil, hate Iran & like Israel. They are the enemy of mankind.
I keep telling people we should be sending all these third worlders who come to the US for work to the saudis, they love third world labor.
That is exactly correct, although my view is mostly via my Filipina wife’s astonishingly large social network, which includes several ladies working in various ME countries.
There are billions of people worldwide scraping by in existences most Americans can hardly imagine: It’s one thing to see some documentary, and another for families to be IN such situations for generations, with few alternatives. Submitting to virtual slavery and abuse is often the “go-getter’s” best shot at a “solution” of sorts.
This is reminding of a Filipino friend who related how much better it was here in the US than when he lived and worked in Japan, even though he was paid well in Japan. Now, in Japan there is generally not the sort of abuse of imported workers that is seen in the ME, but, still, non-Japanese Asians, especially those from Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc., are seen as sort of 3rd class residents by most natives. By contrast, here in the US, he said (paraphrasing), “if I am a responsible person, I receive respect from, and am treated as an equal by, almost everyone.”
This is in “deplorables” / “redneck” country”, BTW. ;-)
By golly, hearing that was one of my proudest days as a US citizen!
It’s a little more complicated than that.
HE SAID. she said.
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