before you go off spouting about how westerners should do for their own countries..think again...Personally, I HAVE worked in horrible conditions to help the people who had no education, food, basic personal items and I lived with them, meaning I lived without heat, electricity and water that ran only when it happened to feel like it. Its called life experience..living outside the comfort zone.
As far as you saying the comparison to hiring someone in India at the standard pay for India is the same as doing it here, is ludicrous at best. The cost of LIVING in India is much cheaper than it is here..plus they DO get to live with the families. You pay someone here what they got back home won't pay to get them rice for a week, not to mention meat or vegetables or necessary personal items here.
Um, you say the workers are damn happy here working for the pay they get...how do you know that..have you stopped and ASKED or even talked to them?? I have...for the most part, they are very nice and modest people who are living at poverty level, and no, they are not damn happy...would you actually be???
Obviously you don't know many of us westerners very well, or you'd know that most of us DO care and have sent aid to these countries and feel for them...or at least done the best we are ALLOWED to do. As far as leisure time..let me see...I'd have to guess you have a lot of it yourself, right? So how do you spend it??? I choose to help others with mine....
As far as being compassionate...when it comes to family...obviously yours doesn't extend to other nationalities...""Well We do not want these people to live here forever. They are contracted labour, and we would be really happy if they come here , work and return in 2 years, after saving some money."" Again..I ask...how would you handle being away from your family for years at a time..in which, your parent, sibling, etc...could pass away or be seriously injured, and you can't return home because its not your "time" to go back.
I still do NOT see how you can say the employees have no problem with the way things are being run..some are deported on whims, left in airports with no way home, work for bonuses that never appear, etc...nothing like walking through life with blinders on your head. I pity the people who have to deal with you in real life, if they ever come to you with a serious problem.....might want to remove those rose colored glasses also...because the other side of the coin isn't very pretty when you look at it in reality.
Human abuse in other countries...yep, we have a lot in southern USA,and a lot of it is because the immigrants come into our country illegally(basically walking across a very shallow river) and aren't protected by our government, against abuse. We have those individuals who use the immigrants' desire for a better life, to line their pockets, with total disregard for human life. Yes, we are working on how to fix those issues, as I'm sure other countries are too...but we do admit our faults also and make them public, and also imprison those that break the laws concerning human trafficking or abuse..
So..in closing Jaseem...until you walk the walk, don't talk the talk. Get down in with those that you say are so "damn happy" to be here working for next to nothing and living in conditions that most people wouldn't put an animal into. Get your hands dirty and MEET some of these people and talk with them...THEN, make a decision instead of sitting back in your comfortable house and telling everyone how wonderfully they are treated.
I'm sorry if I come off sounding like I'm lecturing, but when someone comes on and spouts propaganda like you do...its truly sad...Its arrogant attitudes like yours that can gives Qataris a bad impression to the rest of the world. That is really sad because every single one that I have met and known, and that's quite a lot, have been the most generous and kind people...So, if image means that much to you, then learn from personal experience and then come back and tell everyone what you learned, instead of being arrogant.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
before you go off spouting about how westerners should do for their own countries..think again...Personally, I HAVE worked in horrible conditions to help the people who had no education, food, basic personal items and I lived with them, meaning I lived without heat, electricity and water that ran only when it happened to feel like it. Its called life experience..living outside the comfort zone.
As far as you saying the comparison to hiring someone in India at the standard pay for India is the same as doing it here, is ludicrous at best. The cost of LIVING in India is much cheaper than it is here..plus they DO get to live with the families. You pay someone here what they got back home won't pay to get them rice for a week, not to mention meat or vegetables or necessary personal items here.
Um, you say the workers are damn happy here working for the pay they get...how do you know that..have you stopped and ASKED or even talked to them?? I have...for the most part, they are very nice and modest people who are living at poverty level, and no, they are not damn happy...would you actually be???
Obviously you don't know many of us westerners very well, or you'd know that most of us DO care and have sent aid to these countries and feel for them...or at least done the best we are ALLOWED to do. As far as leisure time..let me see...I'd have to guess you have a lot of it yourself, right? So how do you spend it??? I choose to help others with mine....
As far as being compassionate...when it comes to family...obviously yours doesn't extend to other nationalities...""Well We do not want these people to live here forever. They are contracted labour, and we would be really happy if they come here , work and return in 2 years, after saving some money."" Again..I ask...how would you handle being away from your family for years at a time..in which, your parent, sibling, etc...could pass away or be seriously injured, and you can't return home because its not your "time" to go back.
I still do NOT see how you can say the employees have no problem with the way things are being run..some are deported on whims, left in airports with no way home, work for bonuses that never appear, etc...nothing like walking through life with blinders on your head. I pity the people who have to deal with you in real life, if they ever come to you with a serious problem.....might want to remove those rose colored glasses also...because the other side of the coin isn't very pretty when you look at it in reality.
Human abuse in other countries...yep, we have a lot in southern USA,and a lot of it is because the immigrants come into our country illegally(basically walking across a very shallow river) and aren't protected by our government, against abuse. We have those individuals who use the immigrants' desire for a better life, to line their pockets, with total disregard for human life. Yes, we are working on how to fix those issues, as I'm sure other countries are too...but we do admit our faults also and make them public, and also imprison those that break the laws concerning human trafficking or abuse..
So..in closing Jaseem...until you walk the walk, don't talk the talk. Get down in with those that you say are so "damn happy" to be here working for next to nothing and living in conditions that most people wouldn't put an animal into. Get your hands dirty and MEET some of these people and talk with them...THEN, make a decision instead of sitting back in your comfortable house and telling everyone how wonderfully they are treated.
I'm sorry if I come off sounding like I'm lecturing, but when someone comes on and spouts propaganda like you do...its truly sad...Its arrogant attitudes like yours that can gives Qataris a bad impression to the rest of the world. That is really sad because every single one that I have met and known, and that's quite a lot, have been the most generous and kind people...So, if image means that much to you, then learn from personal experience and then come back and tell everyone what you learned, instead of being arrogant.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)