Many of you didn't like my comments about rudeness in Qatar but I have lived here over 15 years and see it getting worse and worse as the wealth grows. If you say Salam Alakum you never get a reply its customary to say a reply. With all the so called modernization Qatar is losing its real culture the one of kindness and humility, it used to be like a small village where people cared about each other. If a women had a problem with her car on the road many people would stop to help not anymore you would wait til hell freezes over. I am saddened at the changes I see here and they are not for the better, alcohol, prostitution, crime, murder - I guess that is what many newcomers would refer to as 'progress'. I know much of this was brought in to keep the foreignors happy. There was recently an article about the American towers being built here not high rises with some character but steel and glass towers seen anywhere in the world. Seems Qatar has not learned from the mistakes of other countries. I wish Qatar was not headed in this direction but somehow manners have gone out the window. Anyone that has lived here and visited many years ago can tell you the same thing. Even Dubai sold out their culture for money! I see the wealth making sweeping changes here in the psyche of the people and they are not good changes, you are judged more for what designer purse and watch you wear rather than for who you are. Their are only a handful of Qataris now that are still grounded and have not bought into the materialism. Recently I asked a man to stop parking his car under our trees as he was killing them, I was surprised at his reply, he said they didn't have shade at his work place. I told him I am sorry but this is a garden not a parking lot and it took years to grow the trees. He didn't care he continues to park under our trees practically hitting our wall to do so. The police can't help with noise complaints unless their are laws they can enforce.
Many of you didn't like my comments about rudeness in Qatar but I have lived here over 15 years and see it getting worse and worse as the wealth grows. If you say Salam Alakum you never get a reply its customary to say a reply. With all the so called modernization Qatar is losing its real culture the one of kindness and humility, it used to be like a small village where people cared about each other. If a women had a problem with her car on the road many people would stop to help not anymore you would wait til hell freezes over. I am saddened at the changes I see here and they are not for the better, alcohol, prostitution, crime, murder - I guess that is what many newcomers would refer to as 'progress'. I know much of this was brought in to keep the foreignors happy. There was recently an article about the American towers being built here not high rises with some character but steel and glass towers seen anywhere in the world. Seems Qatar has not learned from the mistakes of other countries. I wish Qatar was not headed in this direction but somehow manners have gone out the window. Anyone that has lived here and visited many years ago can tell you the same thing. Even Dubai sold out their culture for money! I see the wealth making sweeping changes here in the psyche of the people and they are not good changes, you are judged more for what designer purse and watch you wear rather than for who you are. Their are only a handful of Qataris now that are still grounded and have not bought into the materialism. Recently I asked a man to stop parking his car under our trees as he was killing them, I was surprised at his reply, he said they didn't have shade at his work place. I told him I am sorry but this is a garden not a parking lot and it took years to grow the trees. He didn't care he continues to park under our trees practically hitting our wall to do so. The police can't help with noise complaints unless their are laws they can enforce.