"You just insulted an entire race....including myself."
I am suspicious when people pull the "race card" so let me quote the original post (I didn't write it, I am just a bystander)
I quote
"Roughly this is how the society is organized:
1) Arabs - first-class citizens - dumb, don't like to work, but often hold 'mudira'/'manager' positions in companies. They don't have college degrees but they hold senior-level positions in companies and are uber-slackers :)"
Which part are you objecting to? Are you saying that Saudi Arabia (which the OP seems to be talking about) is a race blind meritocracy and the Arabs (a) are not on top by virtue of being Arab (b) they work harder than anyone else (c) most of them have advanced college degrees and/or are more educated than their subordinates (d) they don't hold senior positions or (e) they aren't slackers but are very hard workers? [ which is the same as (b) I guess].
You'd contribute more if you explained which of these many assertions is the "false information" you object to.
The key point the OP seems to make is that there is a very stratified society the strata depending primarily on race and not hard work or educational qualifications and that being an Arab allows you to occupy the highest layer without any other qualifications necessary.
Are you saying this is not true?
My friends who work in the gulf tell me the same thing, so I am curious (and eager) to hear a counter opinion.
Probably the whole of number 1. And no, objecting to this does not mean that the answer is one of the choices you gave.
The answer would simply be that there are all kinds of people...some good, some bad. Just like every other place.
I can point to the UAE, for example, where i know of several high positions occupied by qualified people who happen to be Indian.
While in KSA, a number of my friends hold high positions in various fields. Most large companies are owned by a member of the royal family. But newer generations of the royal family all hold college degrees and so are far off from the stereotype most often described.
Again, i really don't like picking the worst possible scenario and then generalizing it and setting a stereotype. I apologize if i came off as rude, but i still suffer in my work every day because of such attitudes.
I am suspicious when people pull the "race card" so let me quote the original post (I didn't write it, I am just a bystander)
I quote
"Roughly this is how the society is organized:
1) Arabs - first-class citizens - dumb, don't like to work, but often hold 'mudira'/'manager' positions in companies. They don't have college degrees but they hold senior-level positions in companies and are uber-slackers :)"
Which part are you objecting to? Are you saying that Saudi Arabia (which the OP seems to be talking about) is a race blind meritocracy and the Arabs (a) are not on top by virtue of being Arab (b) they work harder than anyone else (c) most of them have advanced college degrees and/or are more educated than their subordinates (d) they don't hold senior positions or (e) they aren't slackers but are very hard workers? [ which is the same as (b) I guess].
You'd contribute more if you explained which of these many assertions is the "false information" you object to.
The key point the OP seems to make is that there is a very stratified society the strata depending primarily on race and not hard work or educational qualifications and that being an Arab allows you to occupy the highest layer without any other qualifications necessary.
Are you saying this is not true?
My friends who work in the gulf tell me the same thing, so I am curious (and eager) to hear a counter opinion.