http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/08/middleeast.construction

This is no different in China. It will still take many years before rights like what we have in the states gets passed.

This is no different in China. It will still take many years before rights like what we have in the states gets passed.

whens the last time u went to china? i have relatives in china and it doesn't sound too bad. i plan on checking it out for the first time next year. i even hear they have KFC.

man its getting bad over there...

This is no different in China. It will still take many years before rights like what we have in the states gets passed.

when was the last time you've been to China ?

cuz I just been there last year. you will not be locked up for saying the government sucks. no matter how many times CNN said it would.

At least you wont get lock up in guantanamo bay for years without a trial or anything.

Hell people over there has WAY MORE money than people in the US. at least the people that I know, and they considered themselves as "middle class" while I think they're upper class. u see millionaires every freaking where.

I feel sad that Im probably the "poorest" dude there. :(


oh Dubai ? I never like that place, its just a bunch of blood sucking(money) assholes gathered in one place.

great read playdoh. its good articles like these are posted. so ppl can be more aware with the brutality taht greed causes.

well we all knew someone had to be building those things so fast right?

Take a good look at your own back yard before you condemn others for what's in theirs. Your living in the past if you think we have rights they don't. The U.S. has always been in the forefront of foot in mouth disease when telling others how to behave or run their country.

well we all knew someone had to be building those things so fast right?

Of course, starting from 7 am till 9 pm. thats 14 hours of work a day. Maybe 15 minutes lunch break ?

YAAAA ! you're prisoner ! You have no rights ! :spank: :spank: :spank:

I know the living conditions are not great, but it seems most of them does have the choice to return to India or Pakistan etc. Yet they put up with it because living conditions are only worse at home for them.

Its the way they are treated with no dignity that makes me mad. If anything its the degee of accepted racism thats truly shocking,

Living conditions in India aren't as bad as you think. At least in some areas...

Take a good look at your own back yard before you condemn others for what's in theirs. Your living in the past if you think we have rights they don't. The U.S. has always been in the forefront of foot in mouth disease when telling others how to behave or run their country.
The US is far from perfect but there's a reason why applications for green card increase every year. many people should take a look at the rest of the world before complaining.

i even hear they have KFC.

1. that's not a good thing... LOL

2. I thought KFC went bankrupt

Living conditions in India aren't as bad as you think. At least in some areas...
these people are probably not from areas where living conditions are good.

its' the same reason why people work in sweat shops. because earning $0.50 an hour is better than earning nothing.

I can't say I'm surprised about Dubai (not to say it isn't bad).

As for china... Rights might be ok but living conditions are not always the best. I can't imagine living in a place where the government might flood my town and tons of temple and other historical structures... There are some really bad parts, just going to be a bit different then what's happening in Dubai.

Dubia's airports also have nearly no international legal laws, its been documented that countless millions in illegal weapons usually pass through there to avoid investigation (and most of those weapons usually end up in africa or afganistan)

India and China are some of the few places on earth where you can be looking one way and see a shiny new metropolis that puts American cities to shame, but if you look the other way, and you see a shanty town.

Old world meets new indeed.

I can say that the extent of racism and the acceptance of racism as a way of life over in China is no where near as bad as it is in Dubai as portrayed by this article. And the racism is realy what this article is about, there are plenty of places all over the world where working and living conditions are much worse than for these foreign workers in Dubai.

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Dubai is 'crane' city. 1/4 of the world's cranes are there, due to the incredible, unfathomable pace of the construction of buildings and skyscrapers.

The new government is attempting to diversify its economy away from the price of oil, and towards high technology, education, finance, and - get this - alternative energy. Yep, Dubai now has the largest project of wind powered turbines being constructed anywhere on the planet, and by a massive margin.

They also are building the largest seawater desalination facility in the world, which uses no fossil fuels or electricity (imagine a immense glass canopy, covering an area of water about the size of 2000 football fields, allowing the sun to evaporate the water, leaving clean water to condense on the the inside of the top of the glass canopy).

Having said all of this, yes, they treat immigrant workers like shit. As others have mentioned, it's no worse than many other parts of the world where human labor is imported. That doesn't excuse it, though.

Some of the worst abused workers are those who mine copper and iron ore in Indonesia and Peru. Also, Jack Abramoff (in jail now) was able to get tax exempt status for the Marianas Islands, where women are literally enslaved working in the garment industry, with those clothes going to the U.S. Our Congress granted that tax exempt status, it's still in place, and it's all due to good ole' Jack Abramoff and his partners in crime.

At least the guys get paid...

In much of the world, Africa, Asia, mid-east, Lincoln did not free the slaves.

One of the experiences that hits our military guys is that they are doing things to actually free slaves and end the practice. This is especially meaningful to our black soldiers...

And we are not so far removed - our current candidates for president and vice president are proving that ....

The next generation will never believe stuff like this happened in the past, or is happening now, ever really took place...like electricity, they can't believe there was ever a time without it.

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/stpdrckr420/SLAVERY.png

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! :lol:

Ban him.

I go to China every year. What you see on the surface is no way what's really going on in China.

I went to inner mongolia a couple years ago to visit some children in a rural high school for a presentation. It is not the China that you know.

The average person in a big city like Beijing or Shanghai makes 200-300 US dollars per month. The average person in a rural area makes much much less. Moving from a rural area to a big city is very difficult because of the Chinese Hu Kou system. They need farmers to farm, not start up businesses in big cities.

I could go on and on about China..

But as far as KFC, it is very popular in China, in most populated cities there is a KFC.