City of Gold, City of Slaves: Slavery and Indentured Servitude in Dubai

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2. Recursion

Recursion

When my old dad, was at the sea in his younger days, he was often in the Persian gulf - and many times also in City's like Dubai - who he told was a desolate, almost a village where the inhabitants for the most part was doing their best to steal and cheat people out of their money.. And Dubai was one of the few ports where he had to have a gun at his waist - And he was not even very found of weapons, and first refused to have one of them at all.. But after some some discussing with his Superior officer (my dad was very clear about this) they compromised - he had to have the gun but he could choose not to have bullets in it, when he was on duty ) when he was on watch in the evening/night as many of the Bedouins would try to climb on board the ships, to try to steal everything they could get their hand on... Everything had to be locked down, or bolted down, and they had to keep an eye on every hing when in port.. He was not exactly impressed by this gentlemen, and I don't think I will use the words he once used to describe them, as he used some color full language about them...

And even as the country have been a whole different one today, than it was in the 1950s and 1960s - I guess some of the more "traditional" straits is still there, if you want or dear to look under the glossy exteriour... It is maybe not political correct to point it out - but slavery in one way, or another have been around in the arabian world for centuries long after it was going out of fashion in the rest of the world- and even if it is called something else today - it is still a form of slavery where others have to work for almost nothing - and be treated rather badly....

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