The 7th most visited city in the world is about 1600 square mile large, five times larger than New York City, six times smaller than Haiti.

 

The story will never be told enough: 50 years ago, there was nothing there, just the desert. Today, the emirate is an oasis of class and sophistication for finances, banking, sport, shopping and tourism.  It has, or thrives to have, the largest, the biggest, the tallest of everything.  It is no longer the city of tomorrow; it is the city of today.

 

The whole success of a sanctum in the middle of the Arabian Desert is the brainchild of Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, a project that was started by his father. Of course, one needs billions and trillions to make it happen.  But not every rich land is a prosperous land. The miracle of Dubai could be titled “Financing a Dream”. The dream comes first.

 

The most striking challenge for a visitor to Dubai is to define its social life.  There is not ONE social life in Dubai. Perhaps, there are three. Three tiers experience it differently. This results in an alloy that is not New York, but not Saudi Arabia either.

 

In Dubai, there is no Sharia Law, the great fear of the Westerners.  They don’t can women on public squares. They don’t have public executions every Friday at noon.  They don’t practice honor killings. But tolerance to crime is zero.  Drug dealers are promptly executed. If you kiss in public you go to jail for 30 days. If you have sex on the beach, you go to jail for a year.

 

Foreigners are not allowed to look at, never mind photographing Emirati women. Female tourists are expected to cover their hair, their arms and their legs, but if they don’t, no one will care; they will however be denied entry to religious venues. If they wear mini-skirts or low-cut blouses (some do), they will be frowned upon.

 

The native population is not universally wealthy, but no one pays income tax or sales taxes, and government subsidies are lofty. It makes up about 13% of the total 2,7 million population. Outside of the shopping malls and the mosques, the visitor sees very few of the locals. No foreigner can own a majority share of any business based in Dubai; 51% or more must be owned by an Emirati.

 

The overwhelming majority of Dubai residents are foreign-born, 85% are guest workers. There is no immigrant in Dubai.  You have expats who live the grand lifestyle. You have workers, mostly from India (50%), Southeast Asia (Filipinos) and Eastern Africa (Ethiopians) who do the major labor in Dubai. Without them, the economy would collapse in 24 hours.

 

These foreigners are paid minimum wage to build the paradise and keep it running.  They have no benefits, no access to permanent residency, no path to citizenship. They cannot be sick, disabled or homeless. If they are, they are immediately deported back to their home countries.

In a hemisphere where live 60% of the world population, the guess workers are seen as defected parts that can be promptly replaced.

 

For the guess workers, behind the miracle, there is the mirage.

 

(O. Robert Jeanlouie, Wednesday, July 5, 2017)
The Traveller

 

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