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Q: "There’s been press about the poor living conditions of foreign workers." A: "Brand Dubai is about selling prestige and material luxury — Lamborghinis, and David Beckham owning an island. That luxury tacitly depends on this population of inferiors, but Brand Dubai doesn’t obscure its working practices like the brand of the U.S. does, for example. I really question this whole moral tourism, where travelers wag their fingers at the locals. There’s something slightly repellent about that to me because if you want to see people working in difficult conditions, there’s plenty of that in the United States." "Inferiors"? For fuck's sake. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/travel/joseph-oneill-on-dubai-a-place-in-formation.html?_r=0&referrer= _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
