Good-bye to Dubai

Re:Good-bye to Dubai by kalmar on Sunday August 15, 2010 @07:10PM (#1606219)

I have difficulty understanding the rather sudden and drastic change in regard of "the West" for Dubai. None of what is brought up in these articles was unknown or much hidden. I can only suppose that the marketing of Dubai's brand was simply that successful, as suggested by Syed Ali, an author cited in the article

"Ali [...] accuses Western journalists of buying too easily into the Dubai myth".

Could the poster or any upvoters comment on why they find this to be compelling?

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Re:Good-bye to Dubai by mcantelon on Sunday August 15, 2010 @07:18PM (#1606229)

I think people were willing to ignore the exploitation of workers and human rights abuses when Dubai was still a money train. Now that it has crashed outrage can be expressed without financial impact.

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Re:Good-bye to Dubai by zalew on Sunday August 15, 2010 @08:48PM (#1606412)

That's not exactly true. BBC's 'Dubai Dreams' is sth like 2005/2006 and one episode includes slave labour.

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Re:Good-bye to Dubai by whakojacko on Sunday August 15, 2010 @09:47PM (#1606524)

Its maybe not entirely true, but still generally the case IMO. You really didnt start seeing the mass of articles critical of Dubai until mid-2008 or so.

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