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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (226610)	4/10/2007 2:53:52 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Basically, Dubai has recreated the English colonial system but has imported the natives. This works fine as long as the natives are happy with it. But sometimes they decide to stop cooperating. If they ever do, Dubai has big problems. Why would the natives stop importing cheap labor to do all the work while they either lead lives of leisure, or manage the imported labor, whichever they prefer? You're worried about the people in power being upset that everyone is working for them? They may have problems down the road as the local population will likely never want to work for the wages paid to the imported labor, so they will find it harder and harder to find "managerial" positions for the locals population to fill, but that's a long, long, long way off. UAE has a local population of almost a million versus Saudi of about 18 million. And the UAE has a booming growth economy. All the government would have to do is to tell employers that they need to have at least 5% Emirati staff, and the companies will have to pay the Emiratis to do nothing (or to manage some laborers) and just add it the cost of doing business.