saladin1970
October 2nd, 2007, 07:13 AM
if gulf locals can't get a job they should work harder, to kick expatriates out after 6 years is madness, and if they are muslims, unislamic.
I don't see any effort from the Gulf states to intergrate expats into an arabic way of life, like allowing families in, lessons in arabic etc
Most gulf states do there upmost to keep expatriates from the locals
and I thought the definition of an arab was someone who spoke arabic (well at least this is the definition given by the prophet Muhammad (saws))
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i42hsQE1hcE4Mzi1kl-n0HwxhYqA
DUBAI (AFP) — Bahrain wants a six-year residency cap on the millions of expatriates working in the Gulf who it says are eroding the national character of states in the region, a newspaper reported on Monday.
"The majority of foreign manpower in the region comes from different cultural and social backgrounds that cannot assimilate or adapt to the local cultures," Bahrain's Labour Minister Majeed al-Alawi told Gulf News.
Alawi said he was optimistic the proposal would be adopted by the Gulf Cooperation Council during its annual summit planned for December in the Qatari capital Doha.
The six-members of the pro-Western GCC are home to a population of 35 million, of whom about 13 million, or 37 percent, are foreign workers.
I don't see any effort from the Gulf states to intergrate expats into an arabic way of life, like allowing families in, lessons in arabic etc
Most gulf states do there upmost to keep expatriates from the locals
and I thought the definition of an arab was someone who spoke arabic (well at least this is the definition given by the prophet Muhammad (saws))
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i42hsQE1hcE4Mzi1kl-n0HwxhYqA
DUBAI (AFP) — Bahrain wants a six-year residency cap on the millions of expatriates working in the Gulf who it says are eroding the national character of states in the region, a newspaper reported on Monday.
"The majority of foreign manpower in the region comes from different cultural and social backgrounds that cannot assimilate or adapt to the local cultures," Bahrain's Labour Minister Majeed al-Alawi told Gulf News.
Alawi said he was optimistic the proposal would be adopted by the Gulf Cooperation Council during its annual summit planned for December in the Qatari capital Doha.
The six-members of the pro-Western GCC are home to a population of 35 million, of whom about 13 million, or 37 percent, are foreign workers.