please don't be ignorant about the kobalt mines then. i mean getting payed 1 dollar a day by doing labour that isn't even supposed to happen is still harsh. i mean the companies employing these people say they use bloody huge machines to mine the things while its basically kinds and adults using pickaxes and explosives (sometimes) and using a dumptruck to ship it off
@@baseder514it's okay my man we will do with our grandfathers did and let our grandchildren's inherit our problems I'm sure they will fix them or die trying
@@baseder514 Look I get that Dubai has problems with immigration and stuff, but are we really gonna act like the US, and most Western countries don't as well? I mean we in the West literally have Shell (I hope most of you know what they do in Africa), and let's not forget what happens to kids there so we can have our electric cars.🙄
I think Dubai is the perfect example of a dystopian city controlled by huge companies that dont care with the workers, while the city is inhabited by the richest people in the world who dont care about the workers too
And the city isn't even located in a good place. Like las vegas, they just slapped a huge city in the middle of the desert because they have too much money to know whats good for them.
I literally walk around everyday and see those workers and I feel bad for them. they see me and be like "a black man wowoww" but im looking back at them and im like "sigh". Each country has their issues and Dubai is one of them. They should use their own ppl for work instead of immigrants from poorer countries.
@@TheDiscriminatingSwordthis is what dubai haters look like in a nutshell ignorant and idiotic and make shit up to try to prove something, youre a waste of
The very fact that, to call out Dubai and injustice in general, almost half of the video needs to be censored to avoid demonetization is ridiculous and disgusting on TH-cam’s part.
@@Ok-um5ho Unalive doesn't sound too bad to say, it can be said without thought, which is exactly what many words in newspeak like "Ingsoc" and "Artsem" attempt to do, they can be said without thought so your mind doesn't linger on those words too long. Soviets did stuff like this too. Examples would be stuff like "Politburo" or "Comintern". You can say "Comintern" without thought, but your mind would linger on a phrase like "Communist International"
@@AllblasterIf I had cheap slaves from another country I would never pay them. This way I don't have extra expenses that I could use to buy a pizza dipped in golden cheese 🤑🤑
The best quote ive heard a Sheikh say My Grandfather rode a Camel, i drive a Lambhorghini, my son will drive a Lambhorgini, my Great Grandson will ride a Camel again, wealth is not forever
Ah yes, rich western influencers living in their luxurious highrise apartment penthouses while Nepalese and Pakistani slaves build their 170ft swimming pool, truly a developed and globalized country at its finest.
Thank you, this goes to show the sheer lack of brain cells the west beholds. Ofcourse ofcourse, when you have glistering white skin you are likely to irrationally prioritise that instead of the meat inside you
99% or people in Dubai can be classified into one of 3 groups. Just 3. 1) People with a UAE passport. Rich and powerful. 2) Rich expats working for corporations based in Dubai because there is no income tax, who cozy up to the local authorities. 3) Poor, foreign workers that have no rights, live in deplorable conditions, and are at the mercy of the other two. The nobles, the aristocrats, and the peasants. Modern Feudalism. And trust me, each one of those behaves exactly how you'd expect them to behave towards the others. It's fucking depressing.
As a person born and raised for 16 years in Dubai, and lived in Sharjah. This cannot begin to scratch the surface on the dystopia that is that fucking corporate hell hole. No birth right citizenship, no attainable process of gaining citizenship either. From day 1 of my birth until I left, the government treated me as a guest, going so far as to not allowing my family to be even considered permanent residents, but temporary residents. This applies to every single Arab, Nepali, Bengali, Indian, just everyone who isn't Emarati. You need to continuously renew your residency or risk deportation to whatever hellhole you tried escaping from to raise a family. This is but 1 example of human rights abuses, how about Emaar and other Khaleeji companies building recruitment offices in impoverished nations, signing contracts with workers some up to 30 years of labor, only to confiscate your passport when you arrive, even though its not "legal". This country is simply built on the backs of slaves who deserve to be freed. The fact they are viewed as lesser is genuinely disgusting, as they're human and without them, this sandcastle of a nation would literally grind to a halt.
Bro I lived across the border in Al Qusais and every time I would go to Sharjah it's literally this dystopian cramped hellhole of tall ahh buildings right next to each other to me lmao I can't breathe in Sharjah
Totally correct! I also spent a decent chunk of my childhood in Dubai/Sharjah as my dad is in oil and gas and the amount of effort he had to put in to get the Emarati’s to treat the workers (mostly Indian/South East Asian) with even a small shred of decency or concern for their safety was absurd. As an example one was going to send 30-40 workers into some tanks to do some coating/painting without doing a gas check and he had to argue for hours with the local site manager to stop him from doing it and when the other British supervisor took a gas test the levels were like 2-3 times a lethal dose, basically if my dad hadn’t been there to argue there would be at least a dozen deaths and I’m sure that same story probably played out many times more at other sites. It’s very depressing how little their society values the lives of other humans in general.
Okay, the human rights violations are awful, but the citizenship situation is a non-issue. Most places don't have birth right citizenship, that's more of an American continent/Oceania thing. In most places citizenship is inherited. The Emiratis have the right to maintain exclusive control of their territory, something Europe woefully forgot to do in their nations. But yes, the working conditions are not rightful.
@@HeortirtheWoodwarden if by 'the emiratis' you mean their royal family and lower aristocracy who retain complete control over the entire political apparatus (and if you don't then your entire premise is flawed), that's a psychotic take. you are literally arguing against birthright citizenship in a country who's ruling caste of a few dozen inbred cousins, *by nature of their birth*, was given complete control over the lives of 10 million people.
i think most would prefer to live in no crime modern area than high crime modern area, american cities are crapholes cause of crime, drug abuse and homelessness, dubai has none of it and you can just cope and seethe
as someone who has been fed propaganda all my life in my school (i was born here), holy crap this video changed me as a person 😭 i was somewhat aware before but damn. edit: the national anthem gives me flashbacks of when we all had to stand and sing it 💀
@@TamWam_i was born here too but never seen shit he told in his video other than unpaid worker. Well, i am a Bangladeshi but i am quite grateful to dubai for giving employment to thousands of my people. Litterally half of my family and people ik work in middle east. My father and uncles works there for 20 years and made a significant amount of wealth. But damn never heard of this.
They had infinite money to build a country for the future and then did a cardboard version of the USA, but even more soulless, car dependent and brutal for the poor. Amazing feat ngl, it's like trolling in cities: skylines with mods.
It's like they picked all the worst aspects of american city planning and put them together. Like "superhighway through the city center? Fuck yeah! Car dependent sprawling suburbs? Fuck yeah! Huge city but a terrible public transit system? Fuck yeah!
I went to Dubai last year. Did not have to utter a single word of English. Everyone spoke fluent hindi. Talking with the cab drivers made my heart break. They basically send back home as much as they can and can only afford to visit their family like once a year.
God will punish all these slaveowners. When the day of judgement comes they will see the gates of jahannam open wide. No amount of rakat or praying can ever forgive their mountain of sins. They will rot in jahannam forever
As a Nepali myself i have heard about countless experience of our Nepali brothers and sisters being treated as slaves, living in deplorable conditions, facing overwork, having their visas and passports confiscated, experiencing delayed salary payments, and being subjected to sexual abuse. These are deeply troubling and unacceptable violations of human rights and dignity.
The Dubai ruler had his daughter Shamsa kidnapped, jailed, tortured and beatened daily for years because she wanted to stay in London and go to school there. He did the same thing to another runaway daughter. Shamsa was deprived of her rights as a human and probably dead now. Why anyone with a heart wants to go there is beyond me. And his son Hamdan is the P Diddy of Dubai! Go down the rabbit hole with this guy.
wait. wait no. no way. no actual way. our schools feed us propaganda but never talk about this. i can never look at anything the same anymore, and im living here til im 18. my brother moved out basically the year he turned 18. i cant blame him
Proof, first of all, second of all name, the current ruler of the Uae and name the ruler of Ajman and Sharjah. I bet you never even know those names because you do not do research at all. You just hear rumors and say it online.
@@GrimPlushProductions 😂There is no ruler of UAE. Each emirates has their ruler. The president is Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed one of the sons of the founder. I know the ruler of Ajman is super old dude Humaid. Sharjah both his sons passed from od one from after a fruity drug fueled sex party in London. Also no rumors. Wikileaks classified documents. Those sheikhs are fruity and live diabolical lives. I know all their business. Don’t ask me how. 😜
I am from Germany and there was also a story in one late night show during the pandemic where the host made fun of the same topic. There were quite a few German influencers who decided to go to Dubai, they also made tons of videos emphasizing how great Dubai is. They talk about how in Germany you are so restricted, nothing is allowed and the profession of "influencer" is not taken seriously etc. Then they compared it to Dubai there it is so much better because you actually get a "license" which makes being an influencer so much more professional. However, that license is basically just an agreement to a set of rules of what you are allowed to say and do, but apparently for them that is not restricting at all. (The guy who said that Germany is so restricting btw. made a prank where he paid with fake money and got into trouble. Try that shit in Dubai my guy) A female influencer also made a prank video in Dubai and immediatly got into trouble because she was spotted via CCTV. She then uploaded a video apologizing for what she did, she praised the police for intervening and how those levels of "security" actually make her feel safe. Dude if that happened to her in Germany, there would be no apology, she would be pissed that she was monitored, she would have called Germany a "Surveillance state" and trashed the police. Most influencers are braindead and/or have no morals, they do what is required to get sponsorships and brand deals the rest does not matter to them. Most of them probably do not see their own hypocrisy.
Couldn't agree more! In Romania there's a big scandal nowdays involving influencers that promote (online) betting companies to their audience, mostly underaged children! Being such a poor country, these practices work here, the hope for getting rich ruined a lot of families, the betting addiction is a real modern disease.. Oh, the world we live in!
Dont you even dare to compare germany to dubai, your rape cases are more than our arrests in a whole year. Fake money whether its a prank or not is a federal crime, worldwide! even in germany. And why are you proud of your police not being respected, do you think its strong and cool to trash the police? Go fix your own problems rather than educating yourself on Dubai from a meme video.
Will Smith is not even a poor man. It's at least understandable that a poor person would sacrifice their morals for a payday, which would benefit his or her children. But Will Smith is RICH. He could have said no to promote the slave state and he would have enough money for the rest of his life, or he could have said yes and still have enough money for the rest of his life. It literally makes no difference to him as a person, or his children. Even if managed poorly, his line will live in abundance for the next 75-150 years.
Damn... I've been to Dubai and I wondered why I didn't like it... It felt weird at that time cause the city looked Hella fake and lifeless.. But now I'm hearing this 😭
As a native of Lahore. I can say one thing. Dubai has no vibrancy and unique culture. Everything feels dystopian and fake. It feels way too fake and distant.
But literally 99% of pakis would be ready to pack their bags and live in dubai bro. no matter how bad Dubai is , Pakistan is million miles worse to live.
I was born and raised in Dubai and it’s sad how dystopian it is. Nothing there is real and they can say whatever they like in the media. They will lie about how hot it is so that builders cannot stop despite the fact it is over 50 degrees c. They cover up murders to make the crime rate lower and they put people in prison for minor charges for one person but not the other. It’s a horrible place and I would never go back despite it being my ‘home’. I am not proud of that or that place.
@@Kamal_AL-Hinaihe's bashing it regardless of whether it's an Arab state, everything he said is true You can't call it a western colony just cause it's commercial and "modernised" I was there last year, and majority of people are not westerners
but the people behind it are western. the US and Saudis created a military alliance a long time ago. they depend on each other and almost all wealthy arabic states trying to make their state more "western" for the tourism and they do it for the right reputation@@IamSuperEffective
i was born and grew up in dubai and never saw anything wrong with the city but after moving away and coming back makes me sad about how ignorant i was.
@@vortex_711 the roads are horrible, i remember when i would want to go to emirates mall as a kid and my mom would miss a turn we would have to drive in a direction for 20 minutes just to turn around and how people who are less fortunate are treated. When i was younger and my only experience was living in dubai i didnt have an outside perspective and anything to compare it to so i understand why you think there isnt anything wrong with the city
@@vortex_711 thats precicely why you dont see anything wrong with the city you have a major advantage as a local living there compared to anyone else.I was born there and lived there half my life as well as a bit in Abu-Dhabi but never got treated like i was from there. I love the people and the old culture of dubai but the city isnt what it used to be.
@@tHewaNNabeThInkER-re3jw bro what are you talking about their is a major difference because Americans can speak out against their employers while in uae if you speak out against anything bad about the government you get thrown in jail
@@beritfinelli3202Look at the pro-Palestinian student protests and strikes being absolutely dispersed and crushed by riot police who treats them as s**humans to restore their tainted image and see what he means by that
@@Alexq79- Its good video but the person behind that channel is a pompous pretentious individual who shouldn’t be given more exposure than they already had
The influencers and celebrities heading over to Dubai to claim it's the best place they've ever been to, is one of the most overlooked parts, I genuinely think the majority don't realise their own hypocrisy alongside that of the country.
If you can get out from there just get out, i thought my country (Morocco) has a bad average salary until i saw this one in dubai where u get paid 4$/day thats mad
@@6bk239 morocco didnt have this problem back then there was and equilibrium between expenses and income but lately things went over the top cause of a newly elected president
Ive had an Indian worker from my state. He was a security guard that got really upset one day and I asked him why. He said his wife from India had a baby but she really needed his help as his wife couldn't manage at all, but Dubai was preventing him to do so since they confiscated his passport which really made him upset. Ive researched about workers in Dubai and these workers came from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka construction workers. They were being paid around $175 monthly or less which is just upsetting, and nearly 2-3 or more Indian workers suicide in Dubai every day. Now that's only just India, so just imagine how many people take their lives in every other countries I've mentioned totally. Add up to that, my mother who was Indian had to work 12 hours a day in office, and they treated Arabians very differently. Caste system in Dubai is way more common than you think, and even if you have the money to spend on expensive stuff as an Indian, they still value Americans or other richer countries than us and even sometimes gives us lower service.
Literally more than 50% of Dubai's population is Indian and most speak Malayalam and Hindi . Still most of them are Muslims and Hindus are trapped into being slave workers . They are not secular and racist to those who don't follow their religion or those who are converted to Islam ( Pakistan and Bangladesh) !
Dubai as part of a US puppet state, the UAE, is just a manifestation of western capitalism & how they enslave "expat" workers by branding them illegals just like branded black slaves were demonized as "sub-humans" to justify treating them as such & threaten them with deportation. The west has substituted "race" with culture & religion as a basis for their racist justifications.
I spoke to a driver from Afghanistan, he has lived most of his life in Dubai, he said when he reaches 60, he has to leave. What a heartless place, using people and discarding them when they get old.
@@7myd_779 They have to apply for a “golden visa” or maybe a business equivalent visa to stay in the country and as you can tell they don’t hand out those visas to everyone
I didn't think Geo would make a more serious toned and informative video about this topic, but I really appreciate it considering the fact that every online figure today is held on a gunpoint to not say anything controversial or else they get cancelled. Much respect to him
This is just surface level, I live in the UAE, and you won't imagine the amount of money wasted on bullshit projects is possible even, I've seen tons of beaches and apartments empty collecting dust, and with the costs to visit them more worth than a kidney, did they really expect people to fill these projects?
I cant even emphasise how uneducated this person is on Dubai, at least do the proper research before critisizing something, u can see he rushed to the point of ruining Dubai's image by throwing random shit as the good things he "likes", because anyone with 5 minutes of research would know the golden gate is not a nether portal, it is an aether portal
Yup, those fancy islands they created off the coast came at the cost of huge environmental effects. Resulting in changes to area wildlife, coastal erosion, alongshore sediment transport, and wave patterns. Sediment stirred up by construction has suffocated and injured local marine fauna and reduced the amount of sunlight that filters down to seashore vegetation. Variations in alongshore sediment transport have resulted in changes in erosion patterns along the coast, which has also been exacerbated by altered wave patterns as the waters of the Persian Gulf attempt to move around the new obstruction of the islands. Palm Jumeirah changed the water's spectral profile and increased the water surface temperature around it. The most mind-blowing fact about the Burj Khalifa: The former Palast der Republik lives on through the Burj Khalifa in Dubai! The Palast der Republik opened in 1976 and was the main gathering place of East Germany or the DDR in East Berlin. Besides parliament, it also had restaurants, a performing arts center, a post office, a casino, galleries, a bowling alley, and even an indoor swimming pool! The Palast was demolished in the 2000s to rebuild the old Stadtschloss. After the demolition, about 35K tonnes of steel from it was shipped to the UAE for the Burj Khalifa's construction! So by visiting the Burj Khalifa...you're also visiting the Palast der Republik. Its steel was also sent to Turkey for Volkswagen engines.
Dubai as part of a US puppet state, the UAE, is just a manifestation of western capitalism & how they enslave "expat" workers by branding them illegals just like branded black slaves were demonized as "sub-humans" to justify treating them as such & threaten them with deportation. The west has substituted "race" with culture & religion as a basis for their racist justifications.
There's a fine line between environmentalism and Jainism. If you feel bad about dumping sand over some seaweed, there might be some misplaced empathy going on. Pick your battles!
The story of that Dubai Frame is interesting. The building has a height of 150.24 meters and a width of 95.53 meters. The design was selected as the winner of the 2009 ThyssenKrupp Elevator International Award from 926 proposals to select an emblem for Dubai that represented its "new face". The project idea was initially conceived by Fernando Donis, who also helped design the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing and Jeddah International Airport. The idea behind it was when he was designing the structure, he saw Dubai as a city full of emblems and rather than adding another one, they proposed to frame them all. Five years after Fernando Donis won the competition, Donis said he was offered a contract by Dubai Municipality, but one of the clauses stated that he waives his intellectual rights to the project. He said that clause was a direct breach of an earlier clause in the original competition brief which stipulated that the author will keep his copyright. In 2016, he filed a lawsuit in a US federal court against the Municipality of Dubai and ThyssenKrupp Elevator. In his lawsuit, Donis claims that he has not received either a contract or compensation for his design. In 2018, it was reported that Donis and the Municipality of Dubai were engaged in a legal dispute over ownership of the copyright, but the case did not reach any conclusion
I used to like Dubai, as i was traveling there with my parents. But after learning about their passport system a couple years ago, i cannot stand being there, without thinking about all the problems UAE has
@@dumplingsuwu6691 it is not about UAE's passports, it is about how UAE treats other passports. One employee on same job, on same conditions earnes more than the same employee, but with worse passport
This video is spot on. Perfect blend of humour and drawing attention to serious issues in the world. Dubai's mainstream image as a super advanced utopia will explode in the near future imo.
I kept telling people that wanted me to go to Dubai that I hate Dubai, but couldn't really articulate why I hate Dubai, because my recitation from memory is not great. I just remember reading a bunch of articles that made me feel sick about the whole thing. This sums up everything I read. Thank you.
@stephaniepeters9235 It's not majority of cities and what does climate change have to do with this. Oh maybe because Dubai is super polluted along with many cities
As somebody who has lived in this city for 14 years I can tell you that it is absolutely not what the glammed up Russian plastic dolls and western bottom g’s showcase it to be. I personally always tried to be as generous and polite to the underpaid workers from countries like the Philippines and Pakistan, and what’s even worse is that many other expats of the middle and upper classes kinda just shove the human rights violations under the rug and never address the issue. It’s honestly quite a draining and toxic atmosphere to not only physically live in, but also socially surround yourself with. On another note, quite accurate video and keep up the content! You’re legit the most entertaining and informative channels I’ve recently found.
could you westerners sstop talking about human rights, because you guys don't have that either, you only have some of it which you show on media and hide what you don't have
what are you talkkinnnngg about 😭😭😭😭 ive lived in dubai for my entire life, if you count how long my familys been here then its like 40 years. ive never had a delivery boy act like that (im not emirati btw)
I will say, this video is one of the best videoes you made. You keep the normal meme format of your other videoes, while also aknowledging a serious issue. Truly epic, Danny G's son.
@@SigmundOrthodoxy The workers being flogged, that happened is in saudi not uae that is just one example of his lies. Go do the research before claming facts
Dubai is terrifying. I know someone who worked in Dubai for a single year and the horrors he faced tryna get his passport back from his employer was crazy (they confiscate it when you arrive and claim it’s policy)
source? never seen anyone prove this, global media always say this but dont give video proof of mass taking of passports. at most i seen 3-10 immigrants say it which says nothing as you could pay them 5usd to parrot anything
@@5515sva because an employer will offer a lot of money, they promise to have a decent facility, care, and shelter for the employees. But the conditions in construction centers in Dubai are pretty dangerous and horrid enough for people to call it human exploitation
I met a guy who worked as a welder in skyscrapers in Dubai. He once asked for a labourer-assistant and they sent him 20 men from Bangladesh. He reached back saying that there must be some mistake and the answer was "we pay them nothing and 1 might die, so here's twenty".
@@kostismetallo8697how come they claim to be a Muslim country, when the prophet in a famous saying clearly states to give the employee or the person you hired their reward or payment! Right in time and the amount they deserve Also it's forbidden to treat anyone in this kind of manner.... It explains why so many nations hate Saudi Arabia and immarat 💀
America also claims and was founded as a Christian country, but the things corrupt governments do behind the scenes is very despicable and not Christian like@@selbill3644
Thanks for this, what the UAE is doing is disgusting and these workers deserve justice, imagine being rightfully pissed off when not able to afford basic goods, held captive in a slum and being deprived the law to travel and all you're getting as a response from the government is prison. So terrible, just using these people as tools without any regard for their wellbeing, the officials should be rocking the jailhouse instead.
First of all UAE government has nothing to do with these workers secondly these workers got applied by the companies who they have chosen to work for , these workers are uneducated and hopeless they need to be grateful to what they have because this is how life works
Lets speak facts here indians are slaving there people and no one spoke about it THATS why indians come to The UAE to get better lives ALL OF THEM GET TREATED FAIRLY ITS THE INTERNIT SPREADING LIES ABOUT EVREY COUNTRY BUT NOT THEIRS GO ASK THE INDIANS IF THEY LIKE THERE LIVES IN THE UAE THEY WILL SAY YES
Dubai as part of a US puppet state, the UAE, is just a manifestation of western capitalism & how they enslave "expat" workers by branding them illegals just like branded black slaves were demonized as "sub-humans" to justify treating them as such & threaten them with deportation. The west has substituted "race" with culture & religion as a basis for their racist justifications.
I'm from Germany and literally every influencer and other person that emigrates to Dubai or does business there is either a crook (even so much that they would get detained if they ever set foot again in Germany) or involved in other critizizable practices (like "family" channels that don't care to much about their childrens privacy rights)
Dubai as part of a US puppet state, the UAE, is just a manifestation of western capitalism & how they enslave "expat" workers by branding them illegals just like branded black slaves were demonized as "sub-humans" to justify treating them as such & threaten them with deportation. The west has substituted "race" with culture & religion as a basis for their racist justifications.
I loved this commentary, lived in Dubai basically my whole life and everyone says I must have been rich. Obviously, they haven't seen Dubai Dubai; glad you love the Dubai frame. My dad was one of many who worked on them, he helped design the first metros and worked on Expo 2020
Haha i was also born in dubai and my father, uncle's, grand father 😂every one went to Dubai for work. And for my case my father makes more that 30 or 40 times more than an average bangladeshi. Ofc every one can't make this much even after working for decades but if you don't have talent you are not going to make it. You will remain a slave your whole life. My father went to Dubai with little to no capital, little bit of experience, very little education now he is owner of large scale workshop. Which is very close to the level of Emirati.
@@Abu_Tuesdaybro but you have to think about it. It’s not simple like just be rich bro. Someone from a foreign country probably very poor. Like from Bangladesh, India, etc. Gets lured into coming in Dubai for work and fake promises of a lot of money. The person goes there and gets then passport taken away from them so they can’t travel back. They get all there shit taken from them like money and stuff. Now they are forced to live in misery and they can’t escape as there are guards surrounding their tents. And they earn so less that they can’t even do stuff. And are given just minimum food to live. If you were in this situation. Could I just say to you “Just be rich bro, my dad was poor now he rich”. It doesn’t work. Does it? And pointing out obvious flaws in the highly corrupted Dubai government is not wrong is it?
@@OurCumrade i am not saying get rich. It's just that if you don't have that what is required, you will not make it any part of the world not just in dubai. And as i said my father went to Dubai without any good connection or capital, he never faced this problem of passport being taken away and not just my father i have 20 close relatives in middle east and i know more than 50 people who went to Dubai from bangladesh and thry haven't faced any problems there. My father, uncles can come back to his country at any time but dubai pays quite good amount of money that's why they aren't coming.
I love the “Dubai project”. It’s a reminder of what rich people think the perfect world should look like if they had unlimited power and money. Also that no amount of money can buy you good urban planning apparently.
I grew up, went to to uni and eventually worked in dubai over the course of 13 years, I’ve finally left in February of this year and guess what I felt when I was on that plane about to depart ? Nothing, no nostalgia, nada. As someone who is an adult now I’ve realized that when I was growing up it was all fun and jolly since as a kid you don’t concern yourself with these issues and just enjoy life, but as a grown ass man it’s a whole different story. I haven’t felt happier when I left and I’m definitely not coming back
Honestly this was an excellent video because it's very informative and about the reality of Dubai and how it viciously spreads its propaganda via influencers while still having the classic Geopold touch of humor on it. This video needs to be seen more. Thanks Geo.
@@cattysplat because almost none of them are aware of what is going on, i too didn't know until this year, i looked at dubai the same way everyone has, until now
My friend served in the US Army and was in Dubai, UAE 🇦🇪 for a short vacation before being shipped back home. He said it’s overrated and nothing but obnoxious people who have horrible personalities who think that they have money. Just to get to the airport was a nightmare, the freeways are no different than what we drive here but more dangerous.
Dubai as part of a US puppet state, the UAE, is just a manifestation of western capitalism & how they enslave "expat" workers by branding them illegals just like branded black slaves were demonized as "sub-humans" to justify treating them as such & threaten them with deportation. The west has substituted "race" with culture & religion as a basis for their racist justifications.
Dubai is a very complicated subject for me as an Arab (Half Palestinian, half Syrian) bc I see so many of my relatives be so loving and endorsing of Dubai and claiming that all the "accusations" of slavery are only because of islamophobia and anti-arab racism. While we objectively do face massive amounts of racism, especially now, this is a genuine case where an arab nation is doing something bad, which is weird because these are the same people that rightfully call out MBS and El-Sisi for doing the same things.
as an emirati it really depends on the people who hang with i have many friends from diff nations and sometimes we do it as banter or we do to it each other its all fun and games but it goes too far then just speak to them about it.
i live in the uae and agree, but we are fed so much propaganda in school its insane. an entire subject or even two are dedicated to just teaching this (but luckily our school finally made them optional so i dont have to suffer through that)
Instagram, social media in general is the worst thing that technology has brought to humanity. Everything good has been deteriorating rapidly since the birth of FB, IG, TK, etc.
It's how we use them, Social Media has done lots of good, and brought many things to be, getting people together, helping us communicate and share things with eachother, helping us find people with knowledge and talk to them. Social media isn't the bad guy, it's these idiots who use it for brain rot
@@truthmatters758 Too based for OP, don't worry. Social media has also connected people, brought good things to the world. What has pn accomplished? 💀...
damn geobro this is by far your best video! funny and very aware of the wretched realities overlooked by greedy misinformed tiktokers and disgusting skycrapers. keep it up!
Dubai as part of a US puppet state, the UAE, is just a manifestation of western capitalism & how they enslave "expat" workers by branding them illegals just like branded black slaves were demonized as "sub-humans" to justify treating them as such & threaten them with deportation. The west has substituted "race" with culture & religion as a basis for their racist justifications.
anyone who is so rich and high up and is that DETACHED loses those things very quickly in 99% of cases dubai just happens to be a whole city full of those people
The irony of Dubai's marketing is striking - a city built and operated predominantly by people of various shades of brown, yet their advertisements often showcase individuals paler than albino rabbits.
you didn't mention "you literally cant walk anywhere" cars completely take priority over pedestrians, i once literally had to take a taxi to cross the street because it was a 10 lane highway, surrounding Dubai mall. many roads dont even have pavements
So I was born in Dubai 25 years ago to an Indian family, lived there until couple months ago and something I don't think has yet escaped the bubble Dubai lives in is the Emiratisation Scheme that the government is advocating for since the start of this year. If you've read the other comments you'll see that unless your father is an Emirati Citizen, you can't become an Emirati person regardless whether you were born there and have lived there and have contributed to the economy all your life. Since we're not actual citizens and simply expatriates, we have no rights and having no rights means they can essentially do whatever they want and we can't do anything about it, one of the big things is under paying non-Emirati folk (excluding people holding non-brown country passports). They will blatantly tell you, if asked, that you are being underpaid as an Indian person compared to someone with a British passport, solely based on where you're from. And don't even try to compare salaries with Emirati people, they get paid exorbitant amounts, for example an intern is usually not legally required to be paid but some companies will offer salaries varying between AED 1,500 - AED 2,500, however LEGALLY you cannot pay an Emirati intern less than AED 10,000, a salary that most expatriates will never ever see in their lifetime living in Dubai. Emiratisation has been around for a long time but its being pushed a lot more recently as a lot of the Emirati population don't work as they don't NEED to work (everything is provided for them) hence they are a huge burden on the government. To counter this, the scheme is actively trying to push out non-national people from high-paying jobs to accommodate to their citizen's high standards as they will never work in low-paying starter jobs. Which is hilarious because the nationals that hold jobs never do any work, they simply delegate to their underlings who are usually under paid Indian and Pakistani people. Since expats need a job to survive in Dubai, I guess this scheme will continue to work but if you are someone with an undesirable skin colour and passport, you will most likely never see any job growth.
As someone who lived in Dubai for 25 years (grew up, worked etc), this comment is spot on. However I still have good friends there and memories from growing up in Karama, eating Pakistani, indian and afghani food, and drinking chai all day after playing football. Never got over the passport based, race based salary system though. That was the worst part of Dubai
@@Scuffy what bs, all you see is social media telling you lies about our country, the thing is we pay more to the people who work here then you actually think, more so you may have seen people say that they can't go back to there country, yes they can go back to the country. All you see is bs lil bro
Being in Dubai felt like somebody building a giant mall on Venus which just barely got terraformed: you can technically go out from the buildings but you regret it in 5 minutes.
I flew through Dubai on my way to Nepal and saw the truth of it. My plane came from a European country and I arrived at a large, luxurious airport. When I checked in again to catch my flight to Nepal, I was greeted with an airport terminal the size of three rooms, with everyone crowded together with few seats, dirty, the lights breaking, and a single "broken" KFC. The segregation was so obvious and disgusting.
Thank you bro. My uncle died working in Dubai. His family didn't even receive his body. And no money for his family. I can't even tell how painful this was. I wish all these rich people in dubai.
7:07 I am American and I dislike the car-centric regulations and infrastructure in our country lol. I used to be fine with it until I started watching some content creators (Not Just Bikes and Adam Something) that discuss these issues, then what really set me over the edge was when I visited Tokyo for a school trip. We Americans have a lot of pride in our flawed systems but we aren't unsaveable. Also, I can't believe that these influencers are touting the UAE to be a progressive haven that is supposed to be some kind of role model for the rest of the world. I'd go as far as to say its basically everything that we should avoid becoming.
Dude I came for the jokes but you actually made really good points calling out the hypocrisy of these influencers and showing the corruption within it. Great stuff man
I am bangladeshi and i had 3 friends from my village move to the other golf countries for work. They were mistreated and exploided as cheap workers. They had to make an escape on foot and find the bangladeshi embassey to return home. 1 of the 3 died when returning home, they where all 3 sick for malnutrision and lack of vitamins.
Im also from India living in dubai and bro finally someone has called this out im a muslim and dubai being a muslim country and not giving zakat? How disgusting if you really want to se the real dubai come to deira
Now as a Muslim I have to say this The way how they treat their workers is haram with out a doubt The prophet Muhammad PBUH said “You should treat your servants well and should be considerate to them. You should not hurt them; for you should realize that they too have sensitive hearts like you” He also say “You should pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries”
hey buddy i recently got interested and started studying about the islamic culture and their religious values, however trust me, majority of the modern day muslims don’t follow any of their religion properly, most of them are just cultural muslims.Like you mentioned about Prophet Muhammad PBUH telling about how to treat the servants, however Saudi Arabia the biggest islamic country doesn’t treat their workers properly. you can listen tons of stories about workers getting tortured and beaten in Saudi Arabia and majority of the workers are South Asian. one more thing to mention is that i am from India but idk why muslims here are obsessed with Mughals despite knowing the fact many of them were cruel and inhuman. In fact Aurangzeb a mughal ruler even imprisoned his father and brother in jail for eleven years yet still some Pakistani and Indain Molvis openly speak on national TV that Aurangzeb is our Hero. i mean someone who imprisoned his own father and sold women for adultory can never be anyone’s hero. I wonder if they really follow their religion properly, how can they be so dump to make them their idols. May Allah bless them and make them rethink about their live choices
@@Randomguyoninternet-ki8nxActually Indonesia is the largest Muslim country, but they don't treat anyone like this. Completely different type of Muslims.
Yes what a great man ... Not!!! The dude married a 6 year old Aisha whom he rode when she was 9 and put down any of his critics, the guy is a thug and not respectable at least
Arabic country and become very developed so it hurts? I don’t get the point behind this, try talk about your country in the same way. Double standard people
As a Person born in Dubai (I still live here), I can confirm that this is completely true. Never have I seen a video on Dubai that was actually true until today. Thank You for making this video. Where I am from, Pakistan, Everyone thinks that Dubai is” the best place to be” or “A Replica of Heaven” but that is completely wrong and they won’t believe me so thank you for giving me evidence to prove my family wrong.
As an arab jordanian muslim im disgusted by uae, they be trying to copy european countries forgetting religion tradition and self value, people thinking uae is a civilised futristic country but its just a land that is dependent on only oil and slavery that is it
On the plus side, you can be apart of a certain religion openly...because the UAE cares more about money than anything else, they are the Mr Krabs of the Middle East
When I was younger I used to think Brazil was the worst place on earth but after seeing places like this I would gladly spend the rest of my life here than anywhere like Dubai.
Fun fact: The Porta Pot was circulating as far as 2013 in the bodybuilding forum Misc. Mind you, this was IG at its infancy, It's mind-boggling. BTW 1:01 what's that nostalgic background sound? love it!
“Highest hypocrisy per capita” lmao. This video was actually really informative about things I was ignorant about thanks Geo.
please don't be ignorant about the kobalt mines then. i mean getting payed 1 dollar a day by doing labour that isn't even supposed to happen is still harsh. i mean the companies employing these people say they use bloody huge machines to mine the things while its basically kinds and adults using pickaxes and explosives (sometimes) and using a dumptruck to ship it off
he may see this comment so I'm gonna thank him for being honest about this city instead of showing the tip of the iceberg ❤
Wait till he sees how much bigger Qatar and Kuwait hypocrisy is
@@baseder514it's okay my man we will do with our grandfathers did and let our grandchildren's inherit our problems I'm sure they will fix them or die trying
@@baseder514 Look I get that Dubai has problems with immigration and stuff, but are we really gonna act like the US, and most Western countries don't as well?
I mean we in the West literally have Shell (I hope most of you know what they do in Africa), and let's not forget what happens to kids there so we can have our electric cars.🙄
I think Dubai is the perfect example of a dystopian city controlled by huge companies that dont care with the workers, while the city is inhabited by the richest people in the world who dont care about the workers too
the us is the same. only they keep all the blood work away from them in lower paid places
And the city isn't even located in a good place. Like las vegas, they just slapped a huge city in the middle of the desert because they have too much money to know whats good for them.
@@gavinlightfoot5521
to b honest there is no good place in the UAE that can sustain this city
id rather live in a nice neighborhood in las vegas than the nicest neighborhood in dubai. The standards in dubai are crazy @@gavinlightfoot5521
I literally walk around everyday and see those workers and I feel bad for them. they see me and be like "a black man wowoww" but im looking back at them and im like "sigh". Each country has their issues and Dubai is one of them. They should use their own ppl for work instead of immigrants from poorer countries.
Geopold cannot contain his actual disgust and hatred for Dubai behind his usual immense layer of irony, love to see it.
It's a horrid place
i read that too.
it sounded personal this time
He jelly Burningham is not as lush as dubai
@@gavinlightfoot5521it can't be that bad
@@alexlewis4331😅
I went to Dubai on vacation once and a mall worker told me "Dubai is hell coated in Gold", damn shit was deep
hell coated in gold is a literal description of paradise for muslims from the quran, so it's okay.
@@TheDiscriminatingSwordthat’s not even true 😭
Not for me dont put everyone in one shoes @@TheDiscriminatingSword
@@TheDiscriminatingSwordthis is what dubai haters look like in a nutshell ignorant and idiotic and make shit up to try to prove something, youre a waste of
@@TheDiscriminatingSword from the Quran? I mean Dubai IS hell coated in gold, but this statement has nothing to do with Islam or Quran😂
The very fact that, to call out Dubai and injustice in general, almost half of the video needs to be censored to avoid demonetization is ridiculous and disgusting on TH-cam’s part.
"Abuse doesn't exist if there isn't a word for it" - some dickhead at youtube who thinks 1984 is a happy story
It's very simple, basic newspeak in fact, restrict vocabulary, restrict ability to criticize the ruling elite.
@@Katafrakt_ kind of like 1984, I REALLY HATE WHEN I'M AFRAID TO SAY "d1e" WHILE SOME WOMAN DOXXED A MAN AND THEY'RE DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT.
you worship three gods @@thetej2227
@@Ok-um5ho Unalive doesn't sound too bad to say, it can be said without thought, which is exactly what many words in newspeak like "Ingsoc" and "Artsem" attempt to do, they can be said without thought so your mind doesn't linger on those words too long. Soviets did stuff like this too. Examples would be stuff like "Politburo" or "Comintern". You can say "Comintern" without thought, but your mind would linger on a phrase like "Communist International"
Dubai is essentially “we have so much money so that means everything will work”
with lack of morals to go along with it
Nah if they had so much they would pay migrant workers a living wage.
@@AllblasterIf I had cheap slaves from another country I would never pay them. This way I don't have extra expenses that I could use to buy a pizza dipped in golden cheese 🤑🤑
@@Allblaster You forget they only have so much money because they do shit like that in the first place.
The best quote ive heard a Sheikh say My Grandfather rode a Camel, i drive a Lambhorghini, my son will drive a Lambhorgini, my Great Grandson will ride a Camel again, wealth is not forever
Ah yes, rich western influencers living in their luxurious highrise apartment penthouses while Nepalese and Pakistani slaves build their 170ft swimming pool, truly a developed and globalized country at its finest.
Stop whining, Dubai is a great place. Sucks to suck
Not only westerners. They are a small minority. Most are wealthy saudi pigs
As long as its not white people enslaving them who cares? Slavery is only bad if you're white
You forgot about the 4 women they trafficked in under false pretences
Thank you, this goes to show the sheer lack of brain cells the west beholds. Ofcourse ofcourse, when you have glistering white skin you are likely to irrationally prioritise that instead of the meat inside you
99% or people in Dubai can be classified into one of 3 groups. Just 3.
1) People with a UAE passport. Rich and powerful.
2) Rich expats working for corporations based in Dubai because there is no income tax, who cozy up to the local authorities.
3) Poor, foreign workers that have no rights, live in deplorable conditions, and are at the mercy of the other two.
The nobles, the aristocrats, and the peasants.
Modern Feudalism.
And trust me, each one of those behaves exactly how you'd expect them to behave towards the others. It's fucking depressing.
You forgot about the the Emirati's. The local rich population tht live there
@@Cherry-pu4mx "aristocrats"
@@ghfgxijaorgf5393 The local name is Emirati's
@@Cherry-pu4mx so? the emiratis ale the aristocrats in his comparison so he did mention them
@@ghfgxijaorgf5393 No. He mentioned expats
As a person born and raised for 16 years in Dubai, and lived in Sharjah. This cannot begin to scratch the surface on the dystopia that is that fucking corporate hell hole. No birth right citizenship, no attainable process of gaining citizenship either. From day 1 of my birth until I left, the government treated me as a guest, going so far as to not allowing my family to be even considered permanent residents, but temporary residents. This applies to every single Arab, Nepali, Bengali, Indian, just everyone who isn't Emarati. You need to continuously renew your residency or risk deportation to whatever hellhole you tried escaping from to raise a family.
This is but 1 example of human rights abuses, how about Emaar and other Khaleeji companies building recruitment offices in impoverished nations, signing contracts with workers some up to 30 years of labor, only to confiscate your passport when you arrive, even though its not "legal". This country is simply built on the backs of slaves who deserve to be freed. The fact they are viewed as lesser is genuinely disgusting, as they're human and without them, this sandcastle of a nation would literally grind to a halt.
Bro I lived across the border in Al Qusais and every time I would go to Sharjah it's literally this dystopian cramped hellhole of tall ahh buildings right next to each other to me lmao I can't breathe in Sharjah
Totally correct! I also spent a decent chunk of my childhood in Dubai/Sharjah as my dad is in oil and gas and the amount of effort he had to put in to get the Emarati’s to treat the workers (mostly Indian/South East Asian) with even a small shred of decency or concern for their safety was absurd. As an example one was going to send 30-40 workers into some tanks to do some coating/painting without doing a gas check and he had to argue for hours with the local site manager to stop him from doing it and when the other British supervisor took a gas test the levels were like 2-3 times a lethal dose, basically if my dad hadn’t been there to argue there would be at least a dozen deaths and I’m sure that same story probably played out many times more at other sites. It’s very depressing how little their society values the lives of other humans in general.
As a Muslim, I pray everyday for the destruction of that modern Sodom
Okay, the human rights violations are awful, but the citizenship situation is a non-issue. Most places don't have birth right citizenship, that's more of an American continent/Oceania thing. In most places citizenship is inherited. The Emiratis have the right to maintain exclusive control of their territory, something Europe woefully forgot to do in their nations. But yes, the working conditions are not rightful.
@@HeortirtheWoodwarden if by 'the emiratis' you mean their royal family and lower aristocracy who retain complete control over the entire political apparatus (and if you don't then your entire premise is flawed), that's a psychotic take. you are literally arguing against birthright citizenship in a country who's ruling caste of a few dozen inbred cousins, *by nature of their birth*, was given complete control over the lives of 10 million people.
I know the term 'dystopia' is thrown around a lot these days, but if anything, Dubai really is the purest definition of dystopia.
I think North Korea and even China easily top it
@@nivsh7568least brainwashed american youtube comment
China no, is a livable and actually good country to live, North Korea could be tho@@nivsh7568
@@nivsh7568Dystopias try to look like they aren’t that. North Korea and maybe China don’t care
@@nivsh7568 at least they don't paint themselves as beacons of human progress and prosperity
like, you know, dubai does
It's actually physically painful to listen to celebrities lecture you about human rights whilst promoting places with appalling human rights.
Legitimately painful
better than the usa
@@NickLeb-nw7gd 🤨
@@NickLeb-nw7gd
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i think most would prefer to live in no crime modern area than high crime modern area, american cities are crapholes cause of crime, drug abuse and homelessness, dubai has none of it and you can just cope and seethe
the fact i got a dubai tourism ad in this video LMAO
So what? 😂
as someone who has been fed propaganda all my life in my school (i was born here), holy crap this video changed me as a person 😭 i was somewhat aware before but damn.
edit: the national anthem gives me flashbacks of when we all had to stand and sing it 💀
@@TamWam_i was born here too but never seen shit he told in his video other than unpaid worker. Well, i am a Bangladeshi but i am quite grateful to dubai for giving employment to thousands of my people. Litterally half of my family and people ik work in middle east. My father and uncles works there for 20 years and made a significant amount of wealth. But damn never heard of this.
@Abu_Tuesday Hope you return to Bangladesh.
@@greysnake2903 i already returned to Bangladesh years ago. My mother wanted to return.
They had infinite money to build a country for the future and then did a cardboard version of the USA, but even more soulless, car dependent and brutal for the poor.
Amazing feat ngl, it's like trolling in cities: skylines with mods.
Classic dictators
@@marcosorduno9203you mean classic western puppet states
It's like they picked all the worst aspects of american city planning and put them together. Like "superhighway through the city center? Fuck yeah! Car dependent sprawling suburbs? Fuck yeah! Huge city but a terrible public transit system? Fuck yeah!
Iceland is the country for the future, they literally have unlimited free, clean energy because they're sitting right between two tectonic plates
This is something Americans need to learn… when you copy someone you can only ever be 2nd best.
I went to Dubai last year. Did not have to utter a single word of English. Everyone spoke fluent hindi. Talking with the cab drivers made my heart break. They basically send back home as much as they can and can only afford to visit their family like once a year.
God will punish all these slaveowners. When the day of judgement comes they will see the gates of jahannam open wide. No amount of rakat or praying can ever forgive their mountain of sins. They will rot in jahannam forever
you want a poor taxi driver to shuttle multiple times a year to visit family ? Where on earth does that even happen ?
Sounds like Canada
@@tillamook7446 Bruh calm down. That's not how God works.
@@AtomicVoid95I'm not religious, but this man is right ..
As a Nepali myself i have heard about countless experience of our Nepali brothers and sisters being treated as slaves, living in deplorable conditions, facing overwork, having their visas and passports confiscated, experiencing delayed salary payments, and being subjected to sexual abuse. These are deeply troubling and unacceptable violations of human rights and dignity.
i like it that way
@@kimjong-un1848tero amma ko puti ma mero keta haru attack hanxan. Hosiyaar
@@kimjong-un1848 oohh
why do so many nepalese still go considering all these cons?
@@regisblessbin1937many are very poor and have nothing else to do.
The Dubai ruler had his daughter Shamsa kidnapped, jailed, tortured and beatened daily for years because she wanted to stay in London and go to school there. He did the same thing to another runaway daughter. Shamsa was deprived of her rights as a human and probably dead now. Why anyone with a heart wants to go there is beyond me. And his son Hamdan is the P Diddy of Dubai! Go down the rabbit hole with this guy.
wait. wait no. no way. no actual way. our schools feed us propaganda but never talk about this. i can never look at anything the same anymore, and im living here til im 18. my brother moved out basically the year he turned 18. i cant blame him
Proof, first of all, second of all name, the current ruler of the Uae and name the ruler of Ajman and Sharjah. I bet you never even know those names because you do not do research at all. You just hear rumors and say it online.
@@GrimPlushProductions 😂There is no ruler of UAE. Each emirates has their ruler. The president is Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed one of the sons of the founder. I know the ruler of Ajman is super old dude Humaid. Sharjah both his sons passed from od one from after a fruity drug fueled sex party in London. Also no rumors. Wikileaks classified documents. Those sheikhs are fruity and live diabolical lives. I know all their business. Don’t ask me how. 😜
@@GrimPlushProductions I reply they delete my comments.
@@GrimPlushProductions No rumors. Wikileaks classified documents. Those sheikhs are fruity and lead diabolical lives behind closed doors.
I am from Germany and there was also a story in one late night show during the pandemic where the host made fun of the same topic.
There were quite a few German influencers who decided to go to Dubai, they also made tons of videos emphasizing how great Dubai is.
They talk about how in Germany you are so restricted, nothing is allowed and the profession of "influencer" is not taken seriously etc.
Then they compared it to Dubai there it is so much better because you actually get a "license" which makes being an influencer so much more professional.
However, that license is basically just an agreement to a set of rules of what you are allowed to say and do, but apparently for them that is not restricting at all.
(The guy who said that Germany is so restricting btw. made a prank where he paid with fake money and got into trouble. Try that shit in Dubai my guy)
A female influencer also made a prank video in Dubai and immediatly got into trouble because she was spotted via CCTV. She then uploaded a video apologizing
for what she did, she praised the police for intervening and how those levels of "security" actually make her feel safe.
Dude if that happened to her in Germany, there would be no apology, she would be pissed that she was monitored, she would have called Germany a "Surveillance state" and trashed the police.
Most influencers are braindead and/or have no morals, they do what is required to get sponsorships and brand deals the rest does not matter to them. Most of them probably do not see their own hypocrisy.
Couldn't agree more! In Romania there's a big scandal nowdays involving influencers that promote (online) betting companies to their audience, mostly underaged children! Being such a poor country, these practices work here, the hope for getting rich ruined a lot of families, the betting addiction is a real modern disease.. Oh, the world we live in!
That apology 100% was the condition for her release.
Dont you even dare to compare germany to dubai, your rape cases are more than our arrests in a whole year. Fake money whether its a prank or not is a federal crime, worldwide! even in germany.
And why are you proud of your police not being respected, do you think its strong and cool to trash the police? Go fix your own problems rather than educating yourself on Dubai from a meme video.
Du sprichst die Wahrheit
@@alexspataI like pizza romana
Will Smith is not even a poor man. It's at least understandable that a poor person would sacrifice their morals for a payday, which would benefit his or her children.
But Will Smith is RICH. He could have said no to promote the slave state and he would have enough money for the rest of his life, or he could have said yes and still have enough money for the rest of his life. It literally makes no difference to him as a person, or his children. Even if managed poorly, his line will live in abundance for the next 75-150 years.
He’s 🌈🌈🌈.
he probably doesnt know
Yes, but he is also dumb.
@@justmazen3168 Yes but he also doesn't care
@@justmazen3168 he is sh**** who don't give s***
The sex trafficking is RAMPANT in Dubai. The stories I've been hearing the past year were vile 💔
Damn... I've been to Dubai and I wondered why I didn't like it... It felt weird at that time cause the city looked Hella fake and lifeless..
But now I'm hearing this 😭
@@selbill3644 it's exactly how you described it: fake.
im sure you didnt liked it bcz there were muslims, stop the cap yall the same@@selbill3644
Porta potties 😂😂😂
Name a first world country where the sex trafficking is NOT rampant.
As a native of Lahore. I can say one thing. Dubai has no vibrancy and unique culture. Everything feels dystopian and fake. It feels way too fake and distant.
no way an bindu is making fun of dubai🤣🤣enjoy getting $0.06 every week in the rape capital of the world.
@@HamedNasser-rv9dfcry me a river u sound so forced like ur almost in denial
No offence but I would take Dubai over Lahore 100% of the time.
But literally 99% of pakis would be ready to pack their bags and live in dubai bro.
no matter how bad Dubai is , Pakistan is million miles worse to live.
Good for you@@ReclinedJudgement
I was born and raised in Dubai and it’s sad how dystopian it is. Nothing there is real and they can say whatever they like in the media. They will lie about how hot it is so that builders cannot stop despite the fact it is over 50 degrees c. They cover up murders to make the crime rate lower and they put people in prison for minor charges for one person but not the other. It’s a horrible place and I would never go back despite it being my ‘home’. I am not proud of that or that place.
What a liar 😭😭
keep telling urself that other peoples experiences are lies and see how far that gets ya. heed a warning or face the porta potty@@AANGoa
@@AANGoa
That's the weakest shilling I have seen in a while lol.
"Liar" Yeah ok.
@@Mayhzon it's a fact
Grew up in uae, everything said is truth and much more.
all 17 native emirates are horrified by this video
That's what i said 😂 he's bashing Dubai as if it's an exclusive Arabic state. He doesn't understand it's a western/global colony.
@@Kamal_AL-Hinaihe's bashing it regardless of whether it's an Arab state, everything he said is true
You can't call it a western colony just cause it's commercial and "modernised"
I was there last year, and majority of people are not westerners
From dancing around the dunes to dacing around the golden bull
but the people behind it are western. the US and Saudis created a military alliance a long time ago. they depend on each other and almost all wealthy arabic states trying to make their state more "western" for the tourism and they do it for the right reputation@@IamSuperEffective
LMAOOOO
i was born and grew up in dubai and never saw anything wrong with the city but after moving away and coming back makes me sad about how ignorant i was.
i live there and theres nothing wrong with the city?
@@vortex_711 the roads are horrible, i remember when i would want to go to emirates mall as a kid and my mom would miss a turn we would have to drive in a direction for 20 minutes just to turn around and how people who are less fortunate are treated. When i was younger and my only experience was living in dubai i didnt have an outside perspective and anything to compare it to so i understand why you think there isnt anything wrong with the city
@@NNikolaiiiHentai im a local and i dont see anything wrong with the city, all people treating well
@@vortex_711 thats precicely why you dont see anything wrong with the city you have a major advantage as a local living there compared to anyone else.I was born there and lived there half my life as well as a bit in Abu-Dhabi but never got treated like i was from there. I love the people and the old culture of dubai but the city isnt what it used to be.
@NNikolaiiiHentai i think you received bad treating from the expats
Imagine jailing migrant workers all because they were fighting for their rights for you to pay them their salaries. These people are so evil
If you look closely, Arabs and Americans are literally the same.
@@tHewaNNabeThInkER-re3jw nope we don't do this shit in America at all but nice try
@@tHewaNNabeThInkER-re3jw bro what are you talking about their is a major difference because Americans can speak out against their employers while in uae if you speak out against anything bad about the government you get thrown in jail
@@beritfinelli3202Look at the pro-Palestinian student protests and strikes being absolutely dispersed and crushed by riot police who treats them as s**humans to restore their tainted image and see what he means by that
@@tHewaNNabeThInkER-re3jwDubai is shit dont get arabs involved with this
Finally someone is calling this shit out bro. Finally.
Look up "Adam something" he made an extremely good video about Dubai
Loads of people have done it already. Dubai is a parody of the 21st century has millions of views
@@Alexq79- Its good video but the person behind that channel is a pompous pretentious individual who shouldn’t be given more exposure than they already had
@@Alexq79-Unfortunately not many people know of the atrocities, such as the influencers, and their millions of fans
@@hodisfut *Have. They are still running the channel so we use the present tense
As a guy who's never been to Dubai, I can confirm all this is true
As a guy who has lived there before, I'm thankful I got out of there
Geopold is such a loser. Dubai is a great place. Sure, poor people don’t like it, but who the hell cares what they think? 😂😂😂
@@reaver_7why it's a cool place
@@reaver_7 you probably went there once
As someone who can’t read or write, I can confirm everything said above is true.
The influencers and celebrities heading over to Dubai to claim it's the best place they've ever been to, is one of the most overlooked parts, I genuinely think the majority don't realise their own hypocrisy alongside that of the country.
Influencers aren't the sharpest tools in the shed...
@@xenobob2773but they could be a tool if they want more people to go. Influencers influence us normal people.
BC
@@xenobob2773not only that, they’d do anything for money, the lot of them, especially those questionable female ones 😂
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As a worker here the salary system is shit
sad :(
Hope u get out soon bro praying for u
If you can get out from there just get out, i thought my country (Morocco) has a bad average salary until i saw this one in dubai where u get paid 4$/day thats mad
@@LivrusNay but i think almost every country is muskil basis of recession expense is > income
@@6bk239 morocco didnt have this problem back then there was and equilibrium between expenses and income but lately things went over the top cause of a newly elected president
Ive had an Indian worker from my state. He was a security guard that got really upset one day and I asked him why. He said his wife from India had a baby but she really needed his help as his wife couldn't manage at all, but Dubai was preventing him to do so since they confiscated his passport which really made him upset. Ive researched about workers in Dubai and these workers came from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka construction workers. They were being paid around $175 monthly or less which is just upsetting, and nearly 2-3 or more Indian workers suicide in Dubai every day. Now that's only just India, so just imagine how many people take their lives in every other countries I've mentioned totally. Add up to that, my mother who was Indian had to work 12 hours a day in office, and they treated Arabians very differently. Caste system in Dubai is way more common than you think, and even if you have the money to spend on expensive stuff as an Indian, they still value Americans or other richer countries than us and even sometimes gives us lower service.
Literally more than 50% of Dubai's population is Indian and most speak Malayalam and Hindi . Still most of them are Muslims and Hindus are trapped into being slave workers . They are not secular and racist to those who don't follow their religion or those who are converted to Islam ( Pakistan and Bangladesh) !
I have spent 2.5 months in that ornated shithole , i agree with every word you wrote .
Dubai as part of a US puppet state, the UAE, is just a manifestation of western capitalism & how they enslave "expat" workers by branding them illegals just like branded black slaves were demonized as "sub-humans" to justify treating them as such & threaten them with deportation. The west has substituted "race" with culture & religion as a basis for their racist justifications.
those indians are treated similary in India.
@@AK-tf3fc These people think it's any different in India.
as an Arab I love seeing us ruin our reputation even more 🔥🤑🤑
Inshallah our past glory will shine again
You ruined it yourself.
@@kg7162 inshallah
hamdillah yakhi
@@kg7162 what glory
Be careful Mister Geo, i heard UAE likes to take people on embassy tours when they hear anyone talk shit.
No that's just the Saudis
@@IamSuperEffective You're right, tried making a joke instead I came off as ignorant. But the UAE and the Saudis can still fuck off though.
We are a tolerant nation, it's his problem he listens to western propaganda
I’m surprised this type of video can exist on commie tube.
@@Thaddeus-ml8ifcommie? they'd consider UAE theyre arch enemies
I spoke to a driver from Afghanistan, he has lived most of his life in Dubai, he said when he reaches 60, he has to leave. What a heartless place, using people and discarding them when they get old.
that’s sad
That’s not true I have Pakistani friends who are 75 years old and run their own businesses with their sons
@@7myd_779 They have to apply for a “golden visa” or maybe a business equivalent visa to stay in the country and as you can tell they don’t hand out those visas to everyone
those arent workers they are investors. workers under the slavery(kafala) system have to go back once they turn 60 or 65 I forgot
@@jerinalam5889 as a mature human being, would u pay a 75 year old who can’t drive a car a monthly salary ? They are here for money and they get it.
Longer video length, more views. Go get it man. Hilarious
Lol
balls
wow what 3 replys only?
i prefer mrspherical
I didn't think Geo would make a more serious toned and informative video about this topic, but I really appreciate it considering the fact that every online figure today is held on a gunpoint to not say anything controversial or else they get cancelled.
Much respect to him
Thanks for keeping it real.
That’s not true he’s just an internet white man trying to spread roumer’s about evrey country.
Bro donated all his saving for a a false information's lol
@@llox5005average arab racist.
@@johannesg8959 im not a racist but this guy provided a false statements and definitely I will say something.
@@llox5005 deep down hes dying to go to dubai and flaunt his " wealth " 😂😂😂
an almost 10 minute long geopold video!! please keep getting longer.
ooh yes, I love the longer Geopold 😏
a blessing from the lord
as someone who lives in dubai for a decade now, i can confirm this is all 100% true
Indian spotted
@@ABD-or8rcbot spotted
were did u live
@@killer_gamer8664 were do you live
dubai and u@@ABD-or8rc
This is just surface level, I live in the UAE, and you won't imagine the amount of money wasted on bullshit projects is possible even, I've seen tons of beaches and apartments empty collecting dust, and with the costs to visit them more worth than a kidney, did they really expect people to fill these projects?
no, it's made to attract investment.
I cant even emphasise how uneducated this person is on Dubai, at least do the proper research before critisizing something, u can see he rushed to the point of ruining Dubai's image by throwing random shit as the good things he "likes", because anyone with 5 minutes of research would know the golden gate is not a nether portal, it is an aether portal
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
one of the unexpected twists of all time
Top 10 anime twist you never saw coming
Nah i was abt to flip off on ya mate
LMAO
Yup, those fancy islands they created off the coast came at the cost of huge environmental effects. Resulting in changes to area wildlife, coastal erosion, alongshore sediment transport, and wave patterns. Sediment stirred up by construction has suffocated and injured local marine fauna and reduced the amount of sunlight that filters down to seashore vegetation. Variations in alongshore sediment transport have resulted in changes in erosion patterns along the coast, which has also been exacerbated by altered wave patterns as the waters of the Persian Gulf attempt to move around the new obstruction of the islands. Palm Jumeirah changed the water's spectral profile and increased the water surface temperature around it.
The most mind-blowing fact about the Burj Khalifa: The former Palast der Republik lives on through the Burj Khalifa in Dubai! The Palast der Republik opened in 1976 and was the main gathering place of East Germany or the DDR in East Berlin. Besides parliament, it also had restaurants, a performing arts center, a post office, a casino, galleries, a bowling alley, and even an indoor swimming pool! The Palast was demolished in the 2000s to rebuild the old Stadtschloss. After the demolition, about 35K tonnes of steel from it was shipped to the UAE for the Burj Khalifa's construction! So by visiting the Burj Khalifa...you're also visiting the Palast der Republik. Its steel was also sent to Turkey for Volkswagen engines.
praise the supreme leader for teaching us about the critical impact on ecology from the dubai artificial islands 🇰🇵
Dubai as part of a US puppet state, the UAE, is just a manifestation of western capitalism & how they enslave "expat" workers by branding them illegals just like branded black slaves were demonized as "sub-humans" to justify treating them as such & threaten them with deportation. The west has substituted "race" with culture & religion as a basis for their racist justifications.
@@thetej2227 god is trans
There's a fine line between environmentalism and Jainism. If you feel bad about dumping sand over some seaweed, there might be some misplaced empathy going on. Pick your battles!
@@ryang7604bro were already screwin up the oceans have a little empathy for all the dead tunicates
The story of that Dubai Frame is interesting. The building has a height of 150.24 meters and a width of 95.53 meters. The design was selected as the winner of the 2009 ThyssenKrupp Elevator International Award from 926 proposals to select an emblem for Dubai that represented its "new face". The project idea was initially conceived by Fernando Donis, who also helped design the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing and Jeddah International Airport. The idea behind it was when he was designing the structure, he saw Dubai as a city full of emblems and rather than adding another one, they proposed to frame them all.
Five years after Fernando Donis won the competition, Donis said he was offered a contract by Dubai Municipality, but one of the clauses stated that he waives his intellectual rights to the project. He said that clause was a direct breach of an earlier clause in the original competition brief which stipulated that the author will keep his copyright. In 2016, he filed a lawsuit in a US federal court against the Municipality of Dubai and ThyssenKrupp Elevator. In his lawsuit, Donis claims that he has not received either a contract or compensation for his design. In 2018, it was reported that Donis and the Municipality of Dubai were engaged in a legal dispute over ownership of the copyright, but the case did not reach any conclusion
Frank’s for that
@@thetej2227what am I supposed to do with this information?
@@MuhluriReport it as spam
@@thetej2227Stop projecting your guilt
@@thetej2227 orthodoxy incredibly based
😂 “a wasteland creeping with corrupt desperate degenerates…” Thats one way to explain a paper tiger lol
What an utterly miserable place. I'm glad I don't live there
Yes please stay where you are 😂
I used to like Dubai, as i was traveling there with my parents. But after learning about their passport system a couple years ago, i cannot stand being there, without thinking about all the problems UAE has
What UAE is?
is were dubai is@@coprilettodelnapoli5466
the country that Dubai is in@@coprilettodelnapoli5466
Can you provide us more info about why you don't agree with their passport system? I've heard the UAE passport ranks no. 1 in the world!
@@dumplingsuwu6691 it is not about UAE's passports, it is about how UAE treats other passports. One employee on same job, on same conditions earnes more than the same employee, but with worse passport
This video is spot on. Perfect blend of humour and drawing attention to serious issues in the world. Dubai's mainstream image as a super advanced utopia will explode in the near future imo.
about why the sand is eating the city
I kept telling people that wanted me to go to Dubai that I hate Dubai, but couldn't really articulate why I hate Dubai, because my recitation from memory is not great. I just remember reading a bunch of articles that made me feel sick about the whole thing. This sums up everything I read. Thank you.
U jus too poor
Imagine hating on something without knowing why...NPC moment
You need to take your medicine
I have the same feeling. I just don't have a desire to visit a place built on slave labor. All that glitters sure as hell is NOT gold.
@@pixpusha then don’t visit Africa or the USA
Dubai is now sinking in water because they didn’t build the city properly 💀
Err majority of cities and islands are sinking due to global warming dear.
@@stephaniepeters9235Err not so true
@@aleksmateoikonomi3060 Tell that to the pacific islands sweety, dubai? not so much.
@stephaniepeters9235 It's not majority of cities and what does climate change have to do with this. Oh maybe because Dubai is super polluted along with many cities
@stephaniepeters9235 Yep Dubai is eating itself slowly
Dubai treats its workers like I treat my Minecraft villagers.
😅
As somebody who has lived in this city for 14 years I can tell you that it is absolutely not what the glammed up Russian plastic dolls and western bottom g’s showcase it to be.
I personally always tried to be as generous and polite to the underpaid workers from countries like the Philippines and Pakistan, and what’s even worse is that many other expats of the middle and upper classes kinda just shove the human rights violations under the rug and never address the issue.
It’s honestly quite a draining and toxic atmosphere to not only physically live in, but also socially surround yourself with.
On another note, quite accurate video and keep up the content! You’re legit the most entertaining and informative channels I’ve recently found.
could you westerners sstop talking about human rights, because you guys don't have that either, you only have some of it which you show on media and hide what you don't have
Oh damn, i hope the workers are alright.
As someone who's been living in Dubai for 7 years its honestly a night mare. Every time I order food the delivery boy begs me for water.
true
what are you talkkinnnngg about 😭😭😭😭 ive lived in dubai for my entire life, if you count how long my familys been here then its like 40 years. ive never had a delivery boy act like that (im not emirati btw)
@@nargarothlover3000 thats weird my friend, do you live in a big mansion? the poor dont ask the poor
i can vouch for this. especially in summer, much lesser in winter it seems.
ive had delivery boys ask for tips of course, but they usually just give me the order & leave yk? i live in a villa@@riy927
Sometimes TH-cam mess with my feed, but sometimes i found some pearls like this channel. Nice content. ❤
I will say, this video is one of the best videoes you made.
You keep the normal meme format of your other videoes, while also aknowledging a serious issue.
Truly epic, Danny G's son.
Its just misinformation
@@Arktic_ Its not, These are all serious confirmed issues.
@@Arktic_ typical brainwashed redpill consumer+
@@SigmundOrthodoxy The workers being flogged, that happened is in saudi not uae that is just one example of his lies. Go do the research before claming facts
@@Arktic_ yea but what about literally everything else he said
and i'm sure there's much worse things just like that, that never see coverage
Dubai is terrifying. I know someone who worked in Dubai for a single year and the horrors he faced tryna get his passport back from his employer was crazy (they confiscate it when you arrive and claim it’s policy)
source?
never seen anyone prove this, global media always say this but dont give video proof of mass taking of passports.
at most i seen 3-10 immigrants say it which says nothing as you could pay them 5usd to parrot anything
but why would you apply for a job and then want to leave...........
@@5515sva because an employer will offer a lot of money, they promise to have a decent facility, care, and shelter for the employees. But the conditions in construction centers in Dubai are pretty dangerous and horrid enough for people to call it human exploitation
@@5515sva Because they make fake tempting offers and then lock you in what is basically slavery, think before you comment you absolute idiot.
@5515sva ???
I met a guy who worked as a welder in skyscrapers in Dubai. He once asked for a labourer-assistant and they sent him 20 men from Bangladesh. He reached back saying that there must be some mistake and the answer was "we pay them nothing and 1 might die, so here's twenty".
Literal Warhammer 40K living conditions for the lower class. Well aint that nice?
@@Mayhzon 40k might even be preferable
@@kostismetallo8697how come they claim to be a Muslim country, when the prophet in a famous saying clearly states to give the employee or the person you hired their reward or payment! Right in time and the amount they deserve
Also it's forbidden to treat anyone in this kind of manner.... It explains why so many nations hate Saudi Arabia and immarat 💀
America also claims and was founded as a Christian country, but the things corrupt governments do behind the scenes is very despicable and not Christian like@@selbill3644
@@selbill3644money and power corrupt everyone lol
Being a rich country is not a flex when you're too poor to pay your workers shit.
they aren't workers. they're slaves. there's a difference.
Thanks for this, what the UAE is doing is disgusting and these workers deserve justice, imagine being rightfully pissed off when not able to afford basic goods, held captive in a slum and being deprived the law to travel and all you're getting as a response from the government is prison. So terrible, just using these people as tools without any regard for their wellbeing, the officials should be rocking the jailhouse instead.
First of all UAE government has nothing to do with these workers secondly these workers got applied by the companies who they have chosen to work for , these workers are uneducated and hopeless they need to be grateful to what they have because this is how life works
Lets speak facts here indians are slaving there people and no one spoke about it THATS why indians come to The UAE to get better lives ALL OF THEM GET TREATED FAIRLY ITS THE INTERNIT SPREADING LIES ABOUT EVREY COUNTRY BUT NOT THEIRS GO ASK THE INDIANS IF THEY LIKE THERE LIVES IN THE UAE THEY WILL SAY YES
Dubai as part of a US puppet state, the UAE, is just a manifestation of western capitalism & how they enslave "expat" workers by branding them illegals just like branded black slaves were demonized as "sub-humans" to justify treating them as such & threaten them with deportation. The west has substituted "race" with culture & religion as a basis for their racist justifications.
cry
@@roxas6094wow what a big brain response, did you graduate from Dubai's top university with honors?
I'm from Germany and literally every influencer and other person that emigrates to Dubai or does business there is either a crook (even so much that they would get detained if they ever set foot again in Germany) or involved in other critizizable practices (like "family" channels that don't care to much about their childrens privacy rights)
W germany, Every gulf country is either a capitalist dystopia or sanctioned for human rights violations lol.
Bro you’re literally from Germany. Your country is responsible for the most deaths in history. What leg do you have to stand on? 😭😭😭😭
Dubai as part of a US puppet state, the UAE, is just a manifestation of western capitalism & how they enslave "expat" workers by branding them illegals just like branded black slaves were demonized as "sub-humans" to justify treating them as such & threaten them with deportation. The west has substituted "race" with culture & religion as a basis for their racist justifications.
This is very true, lots of businesses are money laundry.
I loved this commentary, lived in Dubai basically my whole life and everyone says I must have been rich. Obviously, they haven't seen Dubai Dubai; glad you love the Dubai frame. My dad was one of many who worked on them, he helped design the first metros and worked on Expo 2020
Source: mu father bro triste me
boohoo poor people always complain
Haha i was also born in dubai and my father, uncle's, grand father 😂every one went to Dubai for work. And for my case my father makes more that 30 or 40 times more than an average bangladeshi. Ofc every one can't make this much even after working for decades but if you don't have talent you are not going to make it. You will remain a slave your whole life. My father went to Dubai with little to no capital, little bit of experience, very little education now he is owner of large scale workshop. Which is very close to the level of Emirati.
@@Abu_Tuesdaybro but you have to think about it. It’s not simple like just be rich bro.
Someone from a foreign country probably very poor. Like from Bangladesh, India, etc. Gets lured into coming in Dubai for work and fake promises of a lot of money. The person goes there and gets then passport taken away from them so they can’t travel back. They get all there shit taken from them like money and stuff.
Now they are forced to live in misery and they can’t escape as there are guards surrounding their tents. And they earn so less that they can’t even do stuff. And are given just minimum food to live.
If you were in this situation. Could I just say to you “Just be rich bro, my dad was poor now he rich”.
It doesn’t work. Does it?
And pointing out obvious flaws in the highly corrupted Dubai government is not wrong is it?
@@OurCumrade i am not saying get rich. It's just that if you don't have that what is required, you will not make it any part of the world not just in dubai. And as i said my father went to Dubai without any good connection or capital, he never faced this problem of passport being taken away and not just my father i have 20 close relatives in middle east and i know more than 50 people who went to Dubai from bangladesh and thry haven't faced any problems there. My father, uncles can come back to his country at any time but dubai pays quite good amount of money that's why they aren't coming.
At this rate, I am no longer wondering why the Arab worlds remained silent despite the escalating bombadment in Gaza
UAE normalised relations with Israel too
"arab worlds" u have no idea what ur talking about stfu
Arab governments aren't the Arab world. the Arab street is the Arab world and they're not 'silent' at all.
Not all Arabs countries
@@jamiearan
Cry about it
I love the “Dubai project”. It’s a reminder of what rich people think the perfect world should look like if they had unlimited power and money. Also that no amount of money can buy you good urban planning apparently.
Or just a fonctionning brain
I grew up, went to to uni and eventually worked in dubai over the course of 13 years, I’ve finally left in February of this year and guess what I felt when I was on that plane about to depart ?
Nothing, no nostalgia, nada.
As someone who is an adult now I’ve realized that when I was growing up it was all fun and jolly since as a kid you don’t concern yourself with these issues and just enjoy life, but as a grown ass man it’s a whole different story.
I haven’t felt happier when I left and I’m definitely not coming back
Where did you leave to?
Honestly this was an excellent video because it's very informative and about the reality of Dubai and how it viciously spreads its propaganda via influencers while still having the classic Geopold touch of humor on it. This video needs to be seen more. Thanks Geo.
Dubai has been doing this stuff for over 20 years. Plenty of gen X and Y go to Dubai for holidays every year.
@@cattysplat because almost none of them are aware of what is going on, i too didn't know until this year, i looked at dubai the same way everyone has, until now
@@thetej2227 i do not understand, care to elaborate?
Brother this video is pure gold
don’t be a sheep, you’re easily brainwashed, this video is mostly false and misleading information
@@h7zx1 Don't be brainwashed, Andrew Tate is a liar
@@h7zx1 you’re easily brainwashed not to take criticism you see someone like a video and you bitch and moan about it. You grow up.
Tell me what was misleading about this video, huh?@@h7zx1
@@h7zx1 you tripped me up at "sheep" and completely lost me at "brainwashed"
My friend served in the US Army and was in Dubai, UAE 🇦🇪 for a short vacation before being shipped back home. He said it’s overrated and nothing but obnoxious people who have horrible personalities who think that they have money. Just to get to the airport was a nightmare, the freeways are no different than what we drive here but more dangerous.
It's the only airport I've ever been to that has huge fuck off terminals that aren't linked with a SkyTrain. Fucking stupid design.
Dubai as part of a US puppet state, the UAE, is just a manifestation of western capitalism & how they enslave "expat" workers by branding them illegals just like branded black slaves were demonized as "sub-humans" to justify treating them as such & threaten them with deportation. The west has substituted "race" with culture & religion as a basis for their racist justifications.
"He said"
@@m8ajTruth stands
One of the most important videos that you have made. Incredible insight into something that a lot of people aren't aware of
Dubai is a very complicated subject for me as an Arab (Half Palestinian, half Syrian) bc I see so many of my relatives be so loving and endorsing of Dubai and claiming that all the "accusations" of slavery are only because of islamophobia and anti-arab racism. While we objectively do face massive amounts of racism, especially now, this is a genuine case where an arab nation is doing something bad, which is weird because these are the same people that rightfully call out MBS and El-Sisi for doing the same things.
as an emirati it really depends on the people who hang with i have many friends from diff nations and sometimes we do it as banter or we do to it each other its all fun and games but it goes too far then just speak to them about it.
i live in the uae and agree, but we are fed so much propaganda in school its insane. an entire subject or even two are dedicated to just teaching this (but luckily our school finally made them optional so i dont have to suffer through that)
Instagram, social media in general is the worst thing that technology has brought to humanity. Everything good has been deteriorating rapidly since the birth of FB, IG, TK, etc.
i’d say porn is
@truthmatters758 no I think social media
It's how we use them, Social Media has done lots of good, and brought many things to be, getting people together, helping us communicate and share things with eachother, helping us find people with knowledge and talk to them.
Social media isn't the bad guy, it's these idiots who use it for brain rot
@@JorkinDaily247 THIS.
@@truthmatters758 Too based for OP, don't worry. Social media has also connected people, brought good things to the world. What has pn accomplished? 💀...
damn geobro this is by far your best video! funny and very aware of the wretched realities overlooked by greedy misinformed tiktokers and disgusting skycrapers. keep it up!
I am muslim.. I am arab..
I approve of every single thing in this video.
Every sin listed in the Quran is promoted in Dubai. Funny how he said "highest hypocrisy per capita" though
Where are you from
@@primis1710 🇪🇬
Dubai as part of a US puppet state, the UAE, is just a manifestation of western capitalism & how they enslave "expat" workers by branding them illegals just like branded black slaves were demonized as "sub-humans" to justify treating them as such & threaten them with deportation. The west has substituted "race" with culture & religion as a basis for their racist justifications.
ya very sad@@easy_eight2810
i got an ad about a mega festival in dubai whilr watching this 💀
dubai is the perfect exemple of how money cant buy class or common sense
I mean, American rappers also showcase this lesson very well
Not just dubai its like every single rich person money=/=anything tbh rappers, ceo, world leaders are a prime example
@@DrRiqShit at least some rappers give back, Dubai isn’t even that generous
anyone who is so rich and high up and is that DETACHED loses those things very quickly in 99% of cases
dubai just happens to be a whole city full of those people
They got lucky with oil. That’s all it is.
The irony of Dubai's marketing is striking - a city built and operated predominantly by people of various shades of brown, yet their advertisements often showcase individuals paler than albino rabbits.
Piwko Tesco is gota be the smartest Polish reference ever made
you didn't mention "you literally cant walk anywhere" cars completely take priority over pedestrians, i once literally had to take a taxi to cross the street because it was a 10 lane highway, surrounding Dubai mall. many roads dont even have pavements
I know right it's so annoying 😭
zillions must DUBAI the geopold patreon
So I was born in Dubai 25 years ago to an Indian family, lived there until couple months ago and something I don't think has yet escaped the bubble Dubai lives in is the Emiratisation Scheme that the government is advocating for since the start of this year.
If you've read the other comments you'll see that unless your father is an Emirati Citizen, you can't become an Emirati person regardless whether you were born there and have lived there and have contributed to the economy all your life. Since we're not actual citizens and simply expatriates, we have no rights and having no rights means they can essentially do whatever they want and we can't do anything about it, one of the big things is under paying non-Emirati folk (excluding people holding non-brown country passports). They will blatantly tell you, if asked, that you are being underpaid as an Indian person compared to someone with a British passport, solely based on where you're from. And don't even try to compare salaries with Emirati people, they get paid exorbitant amounts, for example an intern is usually not legally required to be paid but some companies will offer salaries varying between AED 1,500 - AED 2,500, however LEGALLY you cannot pay an Emirati intern less than AED 10,000, a salary that most expatriates will never ever see in their lifetime living in Dubai.
Emiratisation has been around for a long time but its being pushed a lot more recently as a lot of the Emirati population don't work as they don't NEED to work (everything is provided for them) hence they are a huge burden on the government. To counter this, the scheme is actively trying to push out non-national people from high-paying jobs to accommodate to their citizen's high standards as they will never work in low-paying starter jobs. Which is hilarious because the nationals that hold jobs never do any work, they simply delegate to their underlings who are usually under paid Indian and Pakistani people. Since expats need a job to survive in Dubai, I guess this scheme will continue to work but if you are someone with an undesirable skin colour and passport, you will most likely never see any job growth.
I interned and did not get paid anything and I am an Emirati. It is either you are lying or misinformed.
@@hamdanmuhairbi9369keep trying to ignore the bs happening in your country lil bro, lying won’t take you anywhere.
As someone who lived in Dubai for 25 years (grew up, worked etc), this comment is spot on. However I still have good friends there and memories from growing up in Karama, eating Pakistani, indian and afghani food, and drinking chai all day after playing football. Never got over the passport based, race based salary system though. That was the worst part of Dubai
@@Scuffy what bs, all you see is social media telling you lies about our country, the thing is we pay more to the people who work here then you actually think, more so you may have seen people say that they can't go back to there country, yes they can go back to the country. All you see is bs lil bro
all bs, I have seen emaraties work as a cashier and low paying jobs.
Being in Dubai felt like somebody building a giant mall on Venus which just barely got terraformed: you can technically go out from the buildings but you regret it in 5 minutes.
I flew through Dubai on my way to Nepal and saw the truth of it. My plane came from a European country and I arrived at a large, luxurious airport. When I checked in again to catch my flight to Nepal, I was greeted with an airport terminal the size of three rooms, with everyone crowded together with few seats, dirty, the lights breaking, and a single "broken" KFC. The segregation was so obvious and disgusting.
I GOT A FUCKING "VISIT DUBAI" AD ON THIS VIDEO.
Thank you bro.
My uncle died working in Dubai. His family didn't even receive his body. And no money for his family. I can't even tell how painful this was.
I wish all these rich people in dubai.
7:07 I am American and I dislike the car-centric regulations and infrastructure in our country lol. I used to be fine with it until I started watching some content creators (Not Just Bikes and Adam Something) that discuss these issues, then what really set me over the edge was when I visited Tokyo for a school trip. We Americans have a lot of pride in our flawed systems but we aren't unsaveable.
Also, I can't believe that these influencers are touting the UAE to be a progressive haven that is supposed to be some kind of role model for the rest of the world. I'd go as far as to say its basically everything that we should avoid becoming.
god bless america
I🥲🥲m waiting for him to bless it @@JohnSmithM2C
You're halfway there already, but your European background at least outlaws some inhumane activities going on over there in Dubai.
That's why everyone should boycott the F outta these annoying influencers
@@JohnSmithM2CAmerica🇦🇷🇧🇷🇺🇾🇻🇪.
😎👍
As someone who’s from North Carolina, I agree with everything about Dubai bc I dreamt about it once
how does it feel to be from the second best Carolina?
Based.
@matheussanthiago9685 what are you talking about? NC is the best C.
NC is better than SC
-from a Virginian
NC have Dababy and Mrbeast, SC dosent have it
Dude I came for the jokes but you actually made really good points calling out the hypocrisy of these influencers and showing the corruption within it. Great stuff man
actually a really good video, please make more deep dives like this maybe on uk cities
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I am bangladeshi and i had 3 friends from my village move to the other golf countries for work. They were mistreated and exploided as cheap workers. They had to make an escape on foot and find the bangladeshi embassey to return home. 1 of the 3 died when returning home, they where all 3 sick for malnutrision and lack of vitamins.
Great video, thank you for showing honesty about these people
More people should be honest about this and spread awareness
Im also from India living in dubai and bro finally someone has called this out im a muslim and dubai being a muslim country and not giving zakat? How disgusting if you really want to se the real dubai come to deira
Deira is my favourtie part of Dubai tbh.
@AvrilManjares yea atleast deira dosent have any fake skyscrapers
@@xixoal5187 it does have a fake arab village though 🤣.
Now as a Muslim I have to say this
The way how they treat their workers is haram with out a doubt
The prophet Muhammad PBUH said “You should treat your servants well and should be considerate to them. You should not hurt them; for you should realize that they too have sensitive hearts like you”
He also say “You should pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries”
Islam is a bit like communism, it doesn't account for human nature.
he's also said a lot of horrifying things so no problem
hey buddy i recently got interested and started studying about the islamic culture and their religious values, however trust me, majority of the modern day muslims don’t follow any of their religion properly, most of them are just cultural muslims.Like you mentioned about Prophet Muhammad PBUH telling about how to treat the servants, however Saudi Arabia the biggest islamic country doesn’t treat their workers properly. you can listen tons of stories about workers getting tortured and beaten in Saudi Arabia and majority of the workers are South Asian. one more thing to mention is that i am from India but idk why muslims here are obsessed with Mughals despite knowing the fact many of them were cruel and inhuman. In fact Aurangzeb a mughal ruler even imprisoned his father and brother in jail for eleven years yet still some Pakistani and Indain Molvis openly speak on national TV that Aurangzeb is our Hero. i mean someone who imprisoned his own father and sold women for adultory can never be anyone’s hero. I wonder if they really follow their religion properly, how can they be so dump to make them their idols. May Allah bless them and make them rethink about their live choices
@@Randomguyoninternet-ki8nxActually Indonesia is the largest Muslim country, but they don't treat anyone like this. Completely different type of Muslims.
Yes what a great man ... Not!!! The dude married a 6 year old Aisha whom he rode when she was 9 and put down any of his critics, the guy is a thug and not respectable at least
Honestly, the transition from comedic British slander to genuine and rightful criticism of Dubai was so gradual I didn’t notice it.
mate, Britain is a circus already
Genuine what😂
Arabic country and become very developed so it hurts? I don’t get the point behind this, try talk about your country in the same way. Double standard people
@@eavyeavy2864 developed by western money and foreign slaves. trust me, no one is jealous of them lol
probabaly he just another puppet to talk shit about country that doesn't go along with their "higher".
As a Person born in Dubai (I still live here), I can confirm that this is completely true. Never have I seen a video on Dubai that was actually true until today. Thank You for making this video. Where I am from, Pakistan, Everyone thinks that Dubai is” the best place to be” or “A Replica of Heaven” but that is completely wrong and they won’t believe me so thank you for giving me evidence to prove my family wrong.
Sorry for asking this but do the poop truck traffic jams actually smell
@@TanookyTenekathe poop truck does not smell
They still won’t believe you
@@TanookyTeneka No not really but the streets around Dubai do smell really bad sometimes. You also don’t really see the poop trucks that often.
Delete this trust me. I got out in time, they watching
As an arab jordanian muslim im disgusted by uae, they be trying to copy european countries forgetting religion tradition and self value, people thinking uae is a civilised futristic country but its just a land that is dependent on only oil and slavery that is it
As someone who lived in Dubai until last month, I can confirm this is true
And oneore thing, I have never seen a Dubai police supercar outside of a motorshow, other than that, all Pajeros
On the plus side, you can be apart of a certain religion openly...because the UAE cares more about money than anything else, they are the Mr Krabs of the Middle East
Just a few more months until my escape from here...
@@courier.66 Yeah, I really wanted to see the Bugatti just strollin' lol. But then again mpg says otherwise to have those patrolling the highways.
@@Starrypaws64 I mean unless ur the middle-lower class , i don't see how bad the UAE is for the average person
thank you for making this, seriously. ridiculous how much KSA & UAE's [and the whole gulf honestly] atrocities get swept under the rug.
As a Christian I hate "sigma" male influencers.
Same man. "trad" influencers too. All posers.
I'm an Arab Muslim who lived in the UAE and I DESPISE Dubai. Completely agree with everything in this video.
When I was younger I used to think Brazil was the worst place on earth but after seeing places like this I would gladly spend the rest of my life here than anywhere like Dubai.
tbh depends if your rich or not like in every country some worst then the other
@@SMSSAKSKPHONIEX true.
brazil?? brazil is alright. Venezuela though...
My respect for geopold for showing in 2:53 tesco value bear (sold in tesco in Poland, idk if in other places too): 📈📈📈📈📈📈
Fun fact: The Porta Pot was circulating as far as 2013 in the bodybuilding forum Misc. Mind you, this was IG at its infancy, It's mind-boggling.
BTW 1:01 what's that nostalgic background sound? love it!
if you mean 1:02 thats Monomyth by Animals As Leaders
The UAE is the pinnacle of Capitalism. Cruelty and luxury out in the open.
Not capitalism is the problem, it’s the people who were given power
I really really enjoy this format, you are phenomenal at it. Great sturf!