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Originally Posted by sufism
Yemeni friend claims even arab labours from poorer countries are discriminated against and called miskins in Saudi. Peace.
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As is well known here, poorer Arabs including Yemenis and Iraqis are much more racist against us than richer Arabs, at least in the Gulf, this line from an Observer piece echoes the same:
I have dinner with my friend Ali, a charming Iraqi engineer whom I have known for two decades. . We talk about stock markets, investment and the Middle East, and then the issue of race comes up.
"We will never use the new metro if it's not segregated," he tells me, referring to the state-of-the-art underground system being built in neighbouring Dubai. "We will never sit next to Indians and Pakistanis "