Apparently not within his company though - unless you work for the same company how can you say it is 'factually incorrect'?
Mixing of sexes with respect to India was mentioned in relation to hotel/travel arrangements not working in offices.
Has anyone worked in Saudi Arabia
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Apparently not within his company though - unless you work for the same company how can you say it is 'factually incorrect'?
Mixing of sexes with respect to India was mentioned in relation to hotel/travel arrangements not working in offices.
Also be sure not to use the women only tills - you can end up getting a beating from their 'religious police'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-Saudi-Arabia-for-using-women-only-queue.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-Saudi-Arabia-for-using-women-only-queue.html
Of course. I've also seen groups of men and women traveling together and staying in the same hotels in India. Indeed, brilliant.
Edit/ Anyway, this is irrelevant to Saudi Arabia - I've not been, so can't offer any particular advice, but I'd be tempted to go for a short while, if only for the experience. Not a place I could see myself living, but would definitely be interesting.
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And so what?
I work for an organisation that works in the country to try and change the way they think and work. Unless we integrate we won't change the way they work and think.
I don't see how a country of 28,830,000 people that near on 85% of the population believe in a fundamental form of Islam can change in a way that can benefit and work cooperatively with a western society.
Call me a cynic...
And so...I don't want to get in to this, as I can see it's going to become an argument about semantics and implications. I assume the reply will be something about how it wasn't intended to mean all Indian cultures, just that office.
If this wasn't clear, the objection is to the use of "backwards cultures", immediately juxtaposed with Saudi, to suggest that's what happens in Indian culture. I replied to say that that's not always the case. That's pretty much it.
This is still completely irrelevant to the thread, so I'm going to bed, but I hope someone can offer some more helpful advice to the OP
And so...I don't want to get in to this, as I can see it's going to become an argument about semantics and implications. I assume the reply will be something about how it wasn't intended to mean all Indian cultures, just that office.
If this wasn't clear, the objection is to the use of "backwards cultures", immediately juxtaposed with Saudi, to suggest that's what happens in Indian culture. I replied to say that that's not always the case. That's pretty much it.
This is still completely irrelevant to the thread, so I'm going to bed, but I hope someone can offer some more helpful advice to the OP
It was an aside referencing another backwards/less liberal culture, yes.. you've then made some observations, seemingly trying to counter it that in reality have little to do with countering what was said as I've already pointed out.
Gender segregation does exist in Indian society though not to the same extent as Saudi:
https://www.quora.com/Have-you-experienced-gender-segregation-in-Indian-college-campuses
^^That is illiberal/backwards as was the cited travel policy in my original post you quoted of not allowing a female worker to travel with men and forcing her to stay in a hotel the other side of London. Feel free to make some other tangential observation about men and women that doesn't counter the actual comment I made.
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Any country that beheads women in the street after being raped for adultery is beyond help in my opinion. Or at best 300-400 years of development.. In which time they should be left to sort it out themselves.. Western technology and weaponry will just continue to complicate things...
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Considering that Saudi Arabia is the single biggest funder and supporter of Islamic terrorism around the globe, if you go to work in Saudi Arabia and that work benefits the Saudi State are you aiding and abetting terrorism?
"back in the day?"
They are doing these things today... It is not their history it is daily life.
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Saudi Arabia should be left to rot.
America does not need that much oil from them these days so I still do not understand all the back-hand, close ties, and how people like Assad and Saddam were so evil, yet a murderous hand chopping brigade of utter medievel loony tunes are pandered to so much.
Despite everyting I dont remember religious police in Syria hand chopping and be-heading.
Also Saudi is THE SOURCE for Wahabbism (the extreme Islam) and is and has been hell bent on promoting and funding it in every country around the world.
I hope they get crushed.
Where are all the headlines of what they are doing in Yemen for Gods sake? Western politics and western media is so doctored and biased, its frightening how people are brainwashed with such ease these days...
America does not need that much oil from them these days so I still do not understand all the back-hand, close ties, and how people like Assad and Saddam were so evil, yet a murderous hand chopping brigade of utter medievel loony tunes are pandered to so much.
Despite everyting I dont remember religious police in Syria hand chopping and be-heading.
Also Saudi is THE SOURCE for Wahabbism (the extreme Islam) and is and has been hell bent on promoting and funding it in every country around the world.
I hope they get crushed.
Where are all the headlines of what they are doing in Yemen for Gods sake? Western politics and western media is so doctored and biased, its frightening how people are brainwashed with such ease these days...
It's not headline news because the average Joe doesn't care what happens in the middle east, just as how a car bomb can go off and kill 40 people there without it getting frontpage news, it's going to be buried in the regional section.
Whereas if it happened here, you can be guaranteed there will be nonstop news about it. Not to mention it's a weekly, even daily occurrence over there when an attack of that scale isn't. Apathy - I guess the best answer I can come up with.
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Isis has a division in Yemen and I believe USA took action themselves within the country to kill off various terrorists allegedly. I thought Saud had the blessing of most of Nato then for their action there, isnt the funding for factions in Syria more controversial
Nice to see it took over 9 posts before this thread went 'rogue'...
OP you should have know better than ask that sort of question on this forum.
I recommend going to somewhere like Britishexpats.com, you may actually get some more useful answers from here.
OP you should have know better than ask that sort of question on this forum.
I recommend going to somewhere like Britishexpats.com, you may actually get some more useful answers from here.
I find it amazing how these countries have such strict codes to live by but when then they travel over to the UK they drink, screw and go ballistic.
Cant wear shorts, cant pass things with your left hand, beheadings, phuck that ! It was only the western demand for oil that gave these guys wealth to start with.
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Cant wear shorts, cant pass things with your left hand, beheadings, phuck that ! It was only the western demand for oil that gave these guys wealth to start with.
SBK