BRAVO. MORE people need to do this! It's not about who's country it is: it's about common curtesy and respect, and that is universal.
For me it's always teenagers, adn usually at the cinema. it's almost worse because you KNOW these kids are growing up with this entitled sense that they are allowed to do absolutely anything and treat anyone as poorly as they like, as clearly they are more important by virtue of their passport. Disgusting.
Once we were standing in line at the cinema, on a weekend when it's so super crowded to get tickets, adn these three qatari boys, maybe 14 years old, just saunter forward like they don't even see the crowd and try to cut in front of me. I told them the line was back there and refused to let them-- i don't know if they were able to butt in front of someone behind me, but at least I treated them the same way I would rude boys back home.
That's the key: I don't know why so many expats seem to think the rules for polite behavior are not applicable to Qataris in Qatar. In Canada, if someone is rude, we tell them. . . even if they are Canadian, in Canada. Just beacause it's your home country doesn't mean you get to be a jerk. Anotehr time, again in the cinema, a group of teenage boys were doing the normal Qatari teenage behavior-- yelling across the cinema, talking, walking around, texting, one even took out a phone and starting playing music loudly in the middle of the film. When I could barely hear the film over their incredibly rude behavior (seriously: just stay at home and watch a dvd if you want to talk adn throw things throughout), I ssshhhh'd them, just like I would back home. They stopped for maybe half a second before coming back louder. Then someone shhhh'd them, at which point one actually got up and went to the usher to demand they make people stop telling them to be quiet. After these shennanigans, one started kicking the back of my friends chair. I turned around and asked them to please stop.
Clearly, they didn't, as they are Qatari. What we're doing is allowing a generation of rich, spoilt brats to gow and develop, a generation who will have NO clue how to function in teh real world. One day, they are going to go abroad, for school or for holiday. And what's going to happen when they behave like they are the center of the universe when they arent' in Qatar? No one is going to care, and more importantly, no one is going to cut them slack. It's not helping Qatar's international image at all!
BRAVO. MORE people need to do this! It's not about who's country it is: it's about common curtesy and respect, and that is universal.
For me it's always teenagers, adn usually at the cinema. it's almost worse because you KNOW these kids are growing up with this entitled sense that they are allowed to do absolutely anything and treat anyone as poorly as they like, as clearly they are more important by virtue of their passport. Disgusting.
Once we were standing in line at the cinema, on a weekend when it's so super crowded to get tickets, adn these three qatari boys, maybe 14 years old, just saunter forward like they don't even see the crowd and try to cut in front of me. I told them the line was back there and refused to let them-- i don't know if they were able to butt in front of someone behind me, but at least I treated them the same way I would rude boys back home.
That's the key: I don't know why so many expats seem to think the rules for polite behavior are not applicable to Qataris in Qatar. In Canada, if someone is rude, we tell them. . . even if they are Canadian, in Canada. Just beacause it's your home country doesn't mean you get to be a jerk. Anotehr time, again in the cinema, a group of teenage boys were doing the normal Qatari teenage behavior-- yelling across the cinema, talking, walking around, texting, one even took out a phone and starting playing music loudly in the middle of the film. When I could barely hear the film over their incredibly rude behavior (seriously: just stay at home and watch a dvd if you want to talk adn throw things throughout), I ssshhhh'd them, just like I would back home. They stopped for maybe half a second before coming back louder. Then someone shhhh'd them, at which point one actually got up and went to the usher to demand they make people stop telling them to be quiet. After these shennanigans, one started kicking the back of my friends chair. I turned around and asked them to please stop.
Clearly, they didn't, as they are Qatari. What we're doing is allowing a generation of rich, spoilt brats to gow and develop, a generation who will have NO clue how to function in teh real world. One day, they are going to go abroad, for school or for holiday. And what's going to happen when they behave like they are the center of the universe when they arent' in Qatar? No one is going to care, and more importantly, no one is going to cut them slack. It's not helping Qatar's international image at all!