Re: first rate arse licking
As I said in another post yesterday, this is a result of the lifestyle they live ... they look down on every other non-<insert Gulf country here> as servants, nope, slaves, to the degree of a pure master-slave relationship.
Though the English should consider themselves lucky, as they [folk in the Gulf] seem to have a strange disposition to appointing British people to run their businesses for them (because they are too thick to run them on their own, perhaps ... *), and as a result, quite often live in a similarly lavish lifestyle to that of their employers. Arab, African, or Indian expats are absolutely not as lucky.
For instance, Emirates (the airline) is headed by Sir Tim Clark, and many British are on (the) board. (pun unintended), while Etihad (another airline of the UAE) has a James Hogan as president.
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* Unfortunately though, it's not there are no brilliant minds who happen to come from Arabian ancestry or among the expats living there, it's that the folk involved unfortunately believe that (a) other expats are too lowly to be put in a rank where they could manage nationals of their country and (b) one should just appoint a Westerner to turn their business into a Western success story to rival Apple et al. While that seems to be working, especially with their airlines, they don't understand that Western doesn't have to mean successful, nor the other way around.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
