When the Internet was just emerging in China, there was a saying circulating on the Internet: "As long as you can go to Dubai, then even if you are picking up garbage in Dubai, then you can earn more money than domestic white-collar workers work hard every day, and it is not a problem to easily make a million." Although China's Internet has developed very rapidly, such remarks will no longer attract the attention of many people, and now such words have become a matter of laughter after dinner. However, why remarks such as "picking up garbage in Dubai" could be all the rage on the Internet in the early days of our country, so that the people in China at that time had unrealistic illusions about the city of Dubai.
So is the city of Dubai really like the early legends, full of luxury cars and diamonds, every inch of land? That was obviously due to the asymmetry of information on the Internet in the early days, which led to the misjudgment of our people about this country. Due to the lack of oil resources in China at that time, and there is a saying in the international community that oil is greater than the first, and it happens that the Middle East, where Dubai is located, is a region with a lot of oil. Therefore, it is precisely because of this asymmetry of information that many people in our country have a wrong understanding of Dubai and the Middle East region where it is located.
So what does the real Dubai look like? Dubai is located in the Middle East, with the Emirate of Sharjah to the north and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi to the south. To the east, it borders the Sultanate of Oman. Dubai's proximity to its proximity to becoming the most important transport hub for the entire Middle East is the key to Dubai's success. The city is a flat desert land facing the Persian Gulf. With an area of about 4,114 square kilometers, Dubai is also the second largest city in the entire UAE outside of Abu Dhabi. But despite its geographical size being smaller than Abu Dhabi, Dubai has a population of 3.39 million, making it the most populous city in the entire United Arab Emirates.
In addition to geographical location and population, Dubai is also the economic and financial center and the most important transportation hub in the Middle East. In addition to oil revenues, which account for the majority of the city's economic development, tourism, aviation, real estate and related financial services have quietly joined the ranks of the city's main economic income.
Although Dubai has achieved great economic and political success since the beginning of the 21st century, Dubai, like other countries in the Arab world, still has no protection for women's rights in Dubai. Although in recent years, because of the enlightened system of King Abdullah and King Salman and now the growing movement for women's rights among the population. However, the rights and interests of Arab women have not been significantly improved, due to the dissemination of relevant film and television works and the content of books, which makes the most intuitive impression of Arab women in the outside world is their dress.
In addition to the fact that all women in the Arab world are required to wear black robes and headscarves, depending on the regional differences between Arab countries, we can see many different local women in the Arab world who wear veils and do not wear veils.
In addition to the requisite dress code for women in the Arab world, women in the Arab world are still taboo in political rights, although after 2011, King Abdullah has decreed that starting with the 2015 local elections, he will give all women of age in the country the right to participate in political voting.
In fact, this is already a major benchmark for women's empowerment in the Arab world, because before 2011, women in the Arab world were not allowed to participate in any country's political votes and engage in political work. Therefore, King Abdullah's granting of women's voting rights this time is already a very bold and outrageous act.
Because the countries of the Middle East are too much of Islam, the lives of women in the Arab world have almost completely fallen into the dogma of Islam. In Dubai's legal texts, the definition of ** crime is very controversial. Because in Dubai's law, the crime needs to be proven, then there need to be five adult men in Afghanistan on the scene and witness the whole process, not only that, even if there are five or more adult men who are willing to prove the truth of the crime, this can only be convicted by the Dubai court if the offender himself voluntarily pleads guilty. Such a legal provision means that even if a woman in Dubai is forced into sexual relations by a criminal, she will not be able to prove her innocence unless the criminal himself pleads guilty.
In addition to the lack of protection for women's rights in the Arab world, the huge wealth gap in Dubai can also suffocate people who travel to Dubai. In the city of Dubai, the local population can be divided into three parts: "local rich", "foreign poor workers" and "foreign rich".
Among these three different types, the benefits they enjoy are completely different. Dubai's locals have access to benefits that outsiders don't enjoy at all. Many of Dubai's foreign workers live in the old-fashioned neighborhoods of Bur Dubai and Deira around Dubai, where most of them are fed, clothed, housed and transported on small wooden boats. Many people have the hot sun's rays on their heads, thus doing some time-consuming and laborious dock handling. Their living conditions are very similar to those of old Shanghai in the early 20th century. So if you still want to go to Dubai to work and make money, I think you should give up this option as soon as possible. Because now Dubai, there is always a wall in the hearts of the city and its people, and it is a very serious xenophobia determined by their religion and culture.
And the current deputy of the United Arab Emirates and the Sheikh of Dubai, although Mohammed, is very wise and politically wise, and has single-handedly made Dubai the richest country in the world, and is affectionately called the "savior" by the people of Dubai, but this enlightened king still has a frightening side. In Muhammad's family, his wife was hunted down and killed, and his two daughters were forced to become mentally ill.
On July 15, 1949, Mohammed was born in the royal family of Dubai, because of the relationship between the royal family, Mohammed was sent to Europe by his father when he was a child, in Europe, Mohammed received an excellent education from the West, in 1966, Mohammed went to Cambridge University in England to study. His experience at Cambridge University also gave Mohammed the vision and economic acumen he is today. When Mohammed took over as the new Ruler of Dubai in 2006, he immediately opened Dubai's port at the beginning of his tenure, and under his leadership, Dubai became no longer solely dependent on oil exports as the sole means of economic development. Tourism and transport development have become Mohammed's most important means of economic income in Dubai's economy.
In Dubai, the "world's first" buildings can be said to be dazzling. For example, the world's largest artificial island, Palm Jumeirah. Five years after the island was built at a cost of more than $14 billion and by more than 14,000 workers around the clock, the entire palm-fronded island of the world was born. Upon completion, Palm Jumeirah has been hailed as one of the world's architectural wonders and one of the world's largest land regeneration projects.
Not only that, but Palm Jumeirah is also one of Dubai's most important tourist attractions. Planned by Dubai**, Palm Jumeirah has been able to attract at least 20,000 global visitors a day since its completion. In addition to Palm Jumeirah, the world's tallest tower, the Burj Khalifa, and the world's most extravagant seven-star hotel, the Burj Al Arab. Also known as the Burj Al Arab Dubai, the hotel was built in 1999 and features a strong Islamic style and high-tech craftsmanship. With its luxury both inside and out, the Burj Al Arab became the world's first seven-star hotel.
In addition, Dubai is home to "the world's largest shopping mall", "the world's largest man-made ski resort", "the world's widest highway" and "the world's most expensive racecourse". Dubai has become a well-known "tourist paradise" in the world. This also led to the wrong impression of Dubai among the people on the Internet in the early days of my country.
Since Mohammed officially became the leader of Dubai, most of the measures taken by Mohammed since taking office have been policies that are very beneficial to the interests of the people and Dubai. Throughout the Middle East, Muhammad was a very wise monarch. The name Mohammed is undoubtedly worthy of the name of "savior" for the entire Dubai people, and he has indeed multiplied the entire Dubai economy and the Gross National Happiness of the people of Dubai many times.
But in 2019, something happened in Dubai that shocked the world. That is Princess Haya from Dubai, who fled from Dubai in a hurry with her two children. He also sought political asylum in Germany and the United Kingdom. Although Mohammed sent Dubai's ** as soon as Princess Haya did, and demanded that Princess Haya and the two children taken by the princess be brought back to Dubai at any cost.
But when the princess applied for a forced marriage protection order in a court in London, England, Mohammed finally had no choice but to do so. It was only after this incident that everyone saw the story behind the current Dubai royal family. Long before Princess Haya fled, there were already two Dubai princesses in Dubai who wanted to flee from Dubai. At the beginning of the new century, Princess Shahsame, who was only 18 years old at the time, resolutely chose to leave Dubai in order not to be forced to marry the husband chosen by her father. But just a few weeks after she left Dubai, Princess Shaham was immediately captured by Dubai's secret** and returned to Dubai.
Since then, it was as if the Princess Shaham had disappeared from this world, and she had not been heard from since. And just two years after Princess Shahsame's escape, another princess of the Dubai royal family, Princess Latifah, who has had dreams of freedom since childhood, also tried to escape from her father's control. But her ending, like her sister, was also brought back by Dubai secretly ** a few weeks after she fled.
According to Princess Latifah's remarks in the face of ** later, Princess Latifa said that when she was captured back to Dubai by Dubai's secret **, she was illegally imprisoned in a villa for three years, and during the three years of her detention, Princess Latifa was beaten by guards almost every day. At that time, because of the desire for freedom and the outside world, in 2018, Princess Latifa implemented a second escape plan with the help of her friend Tina.
Before this escape, in order to prevent the failure of the escape plan, Princess Latifa recorded a ** in advance, in which Princess Latifa accused Muhammad of all his crimes, and she called her father "the most ** devil". She claimed that she had seen Princess Shasam, who had become a mentally ill person, in the villa where she was being held. She was terrified that she would end up like her sister's walking dead. And Princess Latifa also said that Mohammed had a secret "killing squad", and in Latifah's account, this secret killing team only obeyed Muhammad's orders, and once Mohammed found that a member of the royal family had done something out of the ordinary, then the killing team would kill the royal family.
Although Princess Latifa's escape was declared a failure when she fled to the Indian Ocean, because her recording was made public, this ** caused panic among the people of Dubai about Mohammed and the international community also paid close attention to this matter.
However, after that, only at the end of 2018, the former United Nations Human Rights Committee**Mary Robinson came to Dubai to meet Princess Latifah, for which the Dubai royal family also filmed for the two of them**, but in this**, Princess Latifa looked depressed, as if she was very stimulated. This princess who once loved freedom is like an ascetic practitioner for many years in this **. After that, there was no news of Princess Latifa in this world.
Mohammed is like an angel to the people of Dubai, but he is a devil to his family. It's like Dubai is to outsiders. After all, it's just an unrealistic fantasy.