Men and Women?
Do men and women really want to be treated the same? Here is the Nightline show that asked that very question. It was a bit surprising that the women said EQUALITY and them men were saying that there are differences.
The end of common sense?
I really do wonder if the world has gone mad? How can we ever hope that people will be able to get along, in a global context, just look at the mess in the newspapers. We have terrorists, pirates, riots, political chaos and much more that all can probably be traced back to the simple [...]
Dubai Music
Every so often you turn on the radio, my show of course, and you discover something that you had no idea existed. In this case Paul Kelly of Triplew joined me to introduce some homegrown Dubai musical talent. We went from hip-hop to fusion to rock and we could have probably kept going. What I find [...]
Lost your trust?
Have you looked in the mirror lately? Well it is time to look at yourself through the inner mirror. What has happened to your trust? Have you lost trust in your fellow man? It would seem to me that more than ever we have gone from trusting people to figuring that everyone is out to [...]
Do we need rules anyway?
On Nightline we asked which rules we are willing to break and which rules we stick to. It seems that when it comes to driving we are willing to cut a few corners. But if we are willing to cut corners when it comes to rules of the road which other rules are we willing [...]
Culture Ignored?
Even with all the signs to dress respectfully in Dubai people still chose to thumb their noses, amazing.
How do we see people?
Sad but true we see people, STILL, not for what they know or their ability but based on where they are from. Worth, STILL, is tied to ethnicity. We see this in bright colour when we look at the hiring practices in the UAE. An Indian and an American doing the same job are likely [...]
What am I missing?
Ok it seems pretty clear to me that smoking can be very bad for the health. And yes they are a legal substance. But given the health issues shouldn’t we do what we can to get people off of them? And if we need to make it harder to buy smokes isn’t that a good [...]
Language Matters?
It is interesting being an expat in the UAE. But it is also odd how easy it is to live without actually engaging with the UAE culture. A big piece of that culture is the language. So many expats living in the UAE and so few making any real effort to learn Arabic, I include [...]
CONFLICT
So how are you dealing with conflict? I have said it before and will say it again, we need to have some serious training on how to deal with conflict. Why don’t we have any? What is clear is that we are muddling through and maybe we could be doing a lot better. Here is [...]
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