Why Arabs are Rude

The parents dont help the, the kids are wild, rude and most need a good kick up the ass to get them back into line. rude little buggers. i would love to bitch slap the lot of them...flockinmg kids

Rules are a guideline for intelligent people, but they must be adhered to by idiots.

arabs are not rude but u are for writing such a thread

They are to nice if you are. And to rude ...........

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h4t3.............i think you have tow closed ear

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i think no one meet me yet thin..............

be good you will fine all around you tooooooooooo good

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man! this is not true. ur generalizing. and at worst case if ur still sure of this and u find us rude just pack ur stuff and go back to ur country. too easy. (now u might say am rude but this is a normal reaction to ur accuse)

righto bleu......

LOL... This thread is not even worth a real comment.

Thanks.

I do agree with some of what you have said, but I would like you to know that not all of those who wear the GCC white dress are Qataris. Many of them are not Qatari. For example, Persians, Pakistanis, Balushis, Beduin Syrians..They are either forced to dress the local Qatari dress, or they think that this would help them to gain respect and fear from foreginers. I born here and woking in a government institute and thats why I know what I am telling you about.

In my opinion, the real Qataris are very kind,humble, and hospitable comparing with other GCC citizens. Thier population does not exceed 300 000 Qatari. Others got the passports such as persians, pakistanis and indians because thier grandfather were here or born here, but for me and other arabs who have grown up here we still can distinguish who is a Qatari and who is a fake one from thier looks, family names, attitude, and even from thier arabic language.

One more thing, didn't you notice that most arabs speak with you in your language although you are the foreginer in thier country? They could speak with all foreginers in thier language as in many other countries in Europe for instance. This is considered as part of the Arabic Hospitable Nature. In other countries as you know without pointing to any country with name, they will speak with you in thier language no matter you understand or not. The majority of people who you deal with in daily life and not the officials or employees in ministries..etc. They do speak English, but they are either lack confidence in thier language abilities, or its part of thier nature that i am the citizen, so if you want to speak with me or need any help, speak with me in my language.

For your information, I am not a Qatari. I just want to let you know this fact that you might dont know it.

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You pretty much summarized the views of most of the expats here in Qatar.

Too bad Qatar doesn't listen to this type of feedback and act upon to improve its society!

Rules are a guideline for intelligent people, but they must be adhered to by idiots.

well you might have to wait for another 50 / 100 years when there OIL RESERVES will dry up then the whole world see them begging,crying & getting humiliated from other nationals

Not all are rude....few of them

and those few brainless creatures are good for nothing...

Ooppssss..."all Filipinos eat dog" really are you sure!...janeyjaney...whose being rude here?! tsk tsk tsk....

thier are 22 Arab Country

IF you have 6 Country in Gulf

you have many Arab Outside Gulf .

So

Generalization is wrong.

and in one country in one family they be diffrent Manner,

whats going on?

"Always smile in the morning, it makes people wonder what you did last night"

Natur,

it's all about cultural traits :)

not your passport but your origin? Your answer will answer the others:)

I see. Do you know why Qataris request only indians and bangalis to be thier drivers and servants?:)

Natur,

It's about having the personal skills for Customer Service!

Politeness, kindness, amiableness, gentle manners, smiles, etc... are all MUST have, if you want to be excellent at customer service.

Generally speaking, due to reasons already pointed out here (and well known to Qatar Airways), certain cultures tend not to exhibit these traits in their native behavior.

maybe for some but i don't mind their attitude.

When you say Arabs, you are talking about 24 (I think) different countries. You are talking about Hundreds of Millions of People. You are talking about hundreds of religions and cultrues. It is like You are asking "Why asians are rude?" or "why africans are rude?" and so on.

If you have a bad experiance with unfortionatly bad samples of arabs, that is something else.

Also, It could be that you are just not familiar with the language, culture, tradition and many others. For example, My filipina workmate kept asking me when she hear two arabs talking, oh, why they fight? what is the problem? My answer was, they are not fighting, they are actually joking..She replied" but sounds as if they are fighting" although they are not shouting and they are talking calmly... It is only that she is not used to the language and expressions and body language and so on...

and about Qatar Airways hiring, as far as everybody told me until now, they hire more indians and filipinos because of two main reasons:

1- They consider them cheap..Dont missunderstand me here! I mean they would accept a salary/package that an arab won't and they will be so happy with it due to that life and responsibility(sometimes) is cheaper in thier home country.

2- The managment itself is run by Indians in QA.

3- They actually won't find much arabs who are interested to work as stewards or cabin crew for some reasons. For example, a woman's priority is her family and children and by working as a cabin crew, there won't be time for her children and husband and this will ruin thier relationship and all. If not married, her religion, her principles and her family as well won't agree on her working as a cabin crew. For a man, it is similar as well.

Anyway, I won't make it long here. Please don't generalize, or else others will generalize one whole contenant or your country itself just because meeting bad samples of them.

Not all are like that dude.... But a major percentage of them are like that and according to me the major reasons are lack of good education, parents are not strict towards children, they dont make policies instead let them live as they like (in my locality every kid has a cell phone & bicycle & most of their time passes on these stuff) and ofcourse if you dont guide your kid and teach him good family values, respecting others, behaviour etc.. They will not hav such qualities. Becoz every parent / guardian / teacher has to mould every kid with these values.... So i belive that only those souls are rude who directly or indirectly were not moulded.

Human beings behave in line with the culture / family values they have experienced. Every human is being trained every second knowingly or unknowingly, and when one is away from it for whatever reason it will obviously result in such uncivilised behaviour....(human being if not civilized is an ANIMAL). Well educated arabs are so gentle as others man.... so its not about arabs..

Let me make it clear this applies to every1 regardless of the nationality....

Although it's not fare to generalize, it’s a fact that the % of rude behavior tends to be too obvious within certain cultures!

Ask Qatar Airways why they prefer to hire Indians and Filipinos.

The answer will answer your question.

Its cultural and a matter of evolution of civilized behavior!

yes, I 100 o/o agree with joenimmie.....

Well to be rude to someone, means you are considering yourself to be better than this person ! i.e. arabs think they are better than others? well first we need to define arabs !

by arabs you mean the people of the gulf ! lebanese, palestinian, syrian, tunisian .... are all considered arabs but they defer to the gulf people in every way !

the misconception of having alot of money and thus making you better than others is very common in the region, unfortunatly for them, the level of which a society is measured is not by how much money each induvidual has ! but by the education and contribution to this world!

so if arabs are rude, then let them be in their own dreamland ! thinking they are better ! but a great philosopher once cais:" what goes around, comes around"

i rest my case !

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

I have been here a long time and in the past yes the Qataris were different than they are now. Some if it with men is cultural they feel they are better than the women so they don't hold a door open for a women or allow women to cross the road, plus they were never taught the same manners we abide by in the West. In the past many people of all Arab nationalities would stop to help you if you had a problem on the road, which I don't see much of now. Kuwaitis were always arrogant but everyone knew it. MONEY tends to make people think they are better than everyone else. Each Arab country thinks they are better than the other! Funny each society tends to have a class system some more developed than others. I find here now when people are rude I try to figure out what happened in their day to make them feel off as it happens everywhere in the world.

And btw, i think that this is an arab country so whoever doesnt respect them should leave the country

I strongly agree with u novita

not only filipno eat dog. also koreans... that is one of their special menus.

Why? you are bring your nose near to every indian's under arm.

Don't generlise your comments.

I am as real as god.

alinux , for Pete's sake, stop digging!

" Indians might go home and ***king take a shower if they find a toilette."

For Mod records...

ontario, if most arabs are rude to you it must be your fault, and as people suggested look at yourslef and try to find the reason. A suggestion: look inot the mirror, do you look like an Indian/Bengali/Paki, well thats the cause.

I think mst of you all think they are rude coz of their "hightone voice" that cmes out whenever they start speaking.Do you frndz knw tht arabic language has many words/letters which shud b pronunced correctly (smtimes frm your throught with a hightone) otherwise the meaning myt differ.So the same pronunciation comes out even when they speak other languages.Dön't measure their TONE nd dcid they are rude.This doesn't demonstrate there are no rudes at all.There are but not most of arabs.

.most of 'em are just exactly OFFENSIVE..like the impatient guy in a land cruiser who hit my new car's rear bumper unmindful of the damage and just drove off!

If your bad attitude is more than the good attitude you will always face rude people Ontario.

Do not forget that the development in Euroupe is acheived by the help of Muslims many years ago, and Arab people are those who spread Islam.

anywhere and everywhere there are rude people..maybe you havent't met nice arab people yet if u will u can say "Okey not all of them are rude"..

May be you treat you rude because you are rude to them!!!!

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Life is short...300 meter before roundabout!

they think they are our masters and we are their slaves..

they will tell you, y work from here? but they dont realize, that if we are not here they are nothing..

in short.. money rules..

but not al of them are bad or have animalistic attitude..

i met good arabs.. 60% are bad.. 40% are good..

let us not generalize Arab People...

some are and some not...

do not judge others as you dont want to be judged...

Never heard about educated arabs?

We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.

alinux - digging? check the date of the thread and the previous post of urs.

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They are nice by the way...of course not all but there are some that are really rude...same as in different countries where we came from...Guys, respect and understand their culture...same as that they must when in case they are in our country...

" Tomorrow is not just another day, it's another chance..."

Alinux

STFU

you r a disgrace of your country and people

Yalla!

you must have been searching for this thread??? WHY??

Why would you ever bring it to light again??

Are you rude for doing so?

For those who dont like RUDE arab people..dont come and work in the gulf, people from the west can just politely insult our prophet from home and call us terrorists in all of their newspapers, and Indians might go home and ***king take a shower if they find a toilette.

don't u ever forget the owner of this site is arab...ask yourself why he allowing you to post this forum...

Be yourself and live free

don't u ever forget the owner of this site is arab...ask yourself why he allowing you to post this forum...

Be yourself and live free

that Canadians don't have a sense of humour by making you laugh!!

I will never understand woman :)

Arabs were and aren't ever rude, Arabs r human beings as those liing every were in this world, if u can view the back history of all existing nations u will know well who r the Arabs.

I think manners are so important. We went to the jungle zone and everybody kept cutting in front of us in line. Some girl actually cried and pointed in front of us, as if she had a relative waiting for her, and so we let her through. Only to see that she had no one waiting for her.

I don't know about arabs. It didn't look like everybody there was Qatari. I got the impression that most people were expats from alot of different countries.

we have atraditional say (( good meet good & bad meet ...)

but in your case i can say that the imprition and bad oppinion is bilt in your mained about arab's pepole that's by anthere meaning your maine giving you what you expact from arab's.but make shore that rodnes need two party to apper & both party carry some of the plame so that would not make you butter then the pepole you'r jujing.

good lack

duplicate oooops

maybe you are brilliant and you needed to marry someone boring...because you have enough personality for two!

Sorry Rock n roll.... you just made me laugh by proving my theory... LOL

licaben, that's a point people should always consider. if it happens that the other person still treats you rudely, then it's his problem, not yours.

Ok, so I am Arab and married to a Canadian. Does that make me rude, boring and stupid?

Some people from different cultures tend to think that a raised voice, or speaking loudly, is rude. However, many Arabs speak *relatively* loudly and this is often misunderstood as shouting or being aggressive.

I know this from experience, especially because my own father speaks very loudly and my non-Arab relatives tell me they feel incredibly intimidated by him! Lol. But really, he wouldn't hurt a fly!

Maybe this has something to do with your opinion.

Reacting rudely to such rude comments only implies one's rudeness.

lol RocknRoll

Only God Can Judge Me

الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي

I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer

أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ

(the stupid Canuck runs crying back to his igloo to sulk)

:)

not all of them...defended from up bringing and culture...the training start from mother i guess

Be yourself and live free

lol i wasnt talking about you rock and roll i was talking about ragenrock another user haaaaaaaaaaaa

i dont like canadians but then i would never go there because the are dim and dont know when something is a joke or not...and you just illustrated my point!

HOW YOU CAN SAY THAT ALL ARABS ARE RUDE. IT IS NOT. WE ARE HERE TO WORK AND MAKE MONEY. NOT FOR CRITISIZING. WORK EARN AND GO. THAT IS ALL. LET THEM LIVE THEIR OWN WAY. OUR COUNTRY IS NOT PROVIDING THE FACILITY WHICH WE GETS HERE THEN WE HAVE TO RESPECT THEM. AND I THINK BECOZ OF THESE PEOPLE MANY FAMILIES ARE SURVIVING ALL OVER THE WORLD. LET THEM ACT. WE DO OUR DUTY.

Well educated arabs are polite very honest -that's why people misunderstood their frankness- sensitive -very-, have few friends and clients are very nice.

As i observed they are open minded, accept other people's opinion and they are very observer.

On the other hand some has very huge ego -which any other nationality has-

Most Arab talk with loud VOICE thats why you misunderstood them that they sounds fighting with you, i handle lot of clients like this -and am only 7Mos here- but most of them are not ma they just want to understand what are you trying to tell them and ocassionaly its NORMAL to them that they talk with LOUD voice.

What i like most in Arabs is that they are still conservative and religious type..

regarding the behavoir of Children that commented above, many times i encounter bad behavior of young arab children i observed that they are just children as normal 'when i was sitting along with my mom in fast food eating there was few young boys kicking my chir disturbing me while i ate, am not pissed off i smiled and offer to give him fries, i even asked him where he go for school and it ended up nice .. he waved goodbye after and seems to be a sweet boy-

So its better to GIVE OTHER PEOPLE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT and LESS JUDGEMENTAL to people specially with different nationality around the GLOBE -not only Arab-

Peace!

"letting go doesn't mean ur weak,only shows you're stronger to let go"

for God sake,please don't generalize, i am not asking to do so for Arabs, but for all nationalities, we all have pre-judgments for others, and lack of knowledge about their cultures and customs, and feeling the superiority in us make us think we have the right to name them rude, dirty...

i am Arab, and i am replying for a person who think he knows something, Arabs are not all Bedouins, some countries have old rich civilizations like Europe,so please read more books.

and if you are talking about GCC citizens, like in other nations, educated people act differently, very nice and helpful,but unfortunately the maids are raising the kids, and the maids are not always educated, and the parents are busy with the new lifestyle, because of that you see the naughty kids, it is not an excuse, they should do something about it, i agree.

Yes it's a sad fact that some people tend to put labels on people because of their color or bad experience with them. You said it well, MapleLeafs, may your tribe increase. By the way not all Filipinos eat dogs. I don't and I say I wasn't offended when I read it too. To each his own. Not that I'm being indifferent but some things are just not worth your ire.

has to come out somehow.

That's when people go 'postal' :)

Mandilulur said

"Polite psychopaths" - now there's food for thought!

Wow! I should mail this to my mom. My name, or nick, in such amazing company as Margaret Atwood and General Dellaire!

If someone asks on a quiz show, what is common between Margaret Atwood, Annie Proulx and General Dellaire, the answer would be RocknRoll

forsooth!

Not making fun of you Ory, I am flattered. Thank you.

Oryx said "Actually Canadians are rude...they offend me by just being boring - apart from gypo and RandR and Romeo Dellaire and Margret Atwood and Annie Proloux."

"Polite psychopaths" - now there's food for thought!

Mandi

This is hilarious.... i was the recipient of utter politeness and concern yesterday and i was reflecting on the good manners of these Arab gentlemen.....

Actually Canadians are rude...they offend me by just being boring - apart from gypo and RandR and Romeo Dellaire and Margret Atwood and Annie Proloux.

"Arabs dominate only of the plains, because they are, by their savage nature, people of pillage and corruption. They pillage everything that they can take without fighting or taking risks, then flee to their refuge in the wilderness, and do not stand and do battle unless in self-defense. So when they encounter any difficulty or obstacle, they leave it alone and look for easier prey. And tribes well-fortified against them on the slopes of the hills escape their corruption and destruction, because they prefer not to climb hills, nor expend effort, nor take risks." Ibn Khaldoun's opinion on Arabs. (1332 - 1406)

Not all Arabs are rude, the majority are just PERFECTLY OBNOXIOUS.....

“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful,”

What I experienced, I found mostly Arabs are gentle with families. They respect you, if you are with ur family. Most of the Qataris respect females which are in proper Abayas and Hijab. I noticed this at many places, shopping malls, parkings, souks, at give a ways scenarios.

It is good and appreciable but they shud treat all in same manner.

i think that u had enough ...but may i ask you what is ur nationality .....i think all ur skin ppl are ....impolite

regards

let me see if i can explain honey..

Gulf people come from the desert, desert people had to deal with very rough living conditions for thousands of yrs, and developed a seemingly harsh character as a consequence.. That doesnt change fast.

Elsewhere in the Arabworld, economic crisis has been haunting people for over 50 years.

3 arab countries are under foriegn occupation..

Our religion has been systematically under attack for almost a decade

Thousands of our brothers and sisters have been killed, are bieng killed systematically in the biggest holocoust the world has ever seen and no one wants to lift a finger..

We struggle to find jobs and get married and make money..

and people who have been living amongst us for 14 years such as urself are still finding it hard to understand us..

mmmmmmm

Does that solve ur riddle for u :)

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"missiles, warships and nuclear weapons cannot establish security. Instead they destroy what peace and security build." Anwar Sadat

i quote, "..Its also so rude to walk into someones house and call the hosts arrogant etc. So why do it over here with their country?"

a point well explained. hmmm, but i think if ure using metaphor here..one should also say "be kind to the guest". why i said this if you may ask, japanese people IN GENERAL are so courteous you'd be half amazed. theyre especially very accomodating, warm, and friendly to foreigners.

my say on this thread? "if one has nothing nice to say..ye shall shut up. :)"

its this, if you said something not nice in public..someone will definitely bash something not nice back atcha. okay, nice is becoming too redundant. by the way, people generalize all the time. its a fact. uve commited this "rudeness" at least once in ur lifetime. if he generalized in a good way, almost no one would bash at him because its a good opinion, right?

i guess he should say why some qataris are rude..not arabs in general. my arab friends are not rude!

Do u like to have an arabic friend (Not rude)

try to have arabic friends first then u will know Arabs

in all ur 14 years of experience in the gulf, i`m sure u never had an Arabic Friend.

we r not rude.

Don`t Love me be my friend

Do u like to have an arabic friend (Not rude)

try to have arabic friends first then u will know Arabs

in all ur 14 years of experience in the gulf, i`m sure u never had an Arabic Friend.

we r not rude.

Don`t Love me be my friend

Do u like to have an arabic friend (Not rude)

try to have arabic friends first then u will know Arabs

in all ur 14 years of experience in the gulf, i`m sure u never had an Arabic Friend.

we r not rude.

Don`t Love me be my friend

okay, done...it has been agreed. majority says arabs are not rude. now shall we all lighten up?

guys, please don't lecture the guy..i find his post not hostile. i think he was just venting his own bad experiences out(but vented out in the wrong site (i think im in the wrong site too..hmmmm.)).

Well of course in every nationality there rude people, very naive not to believe that, but here in Doha, i find some Arabs are very rude. for example, when im walking around in malls, i find that some Arabs will push my kids out of the way to get ahead, not walk around them, if you are entering through doors, they will push in, rather than wait until you have walked through the doors, simple things like that..Sorry but personally i havent come across a lot of non arabs here in Qatar that do those sorts of things,and before anyone jumps down my throat, i said some not all.

If someone tells a New Yorker that all New Yorkers are rude they will say, "So? Gotta problem wit dat?" Rather than being defensive they consider it a matter of pride. (NB, I do not consider New Yorkers rude.)

Mandi

I feel it may be lack or education.. which is very low here and access of lots of Money which makes... people ignorant and proud.. but it is just my opinion... I may be wrong...

thankx, dont u agree with me??

hmmm I think Ontario has a point...I am an Arab and I find Arabs to be in general hard to deal with...The good thing is that Arabs are quite emotional and when they love the do it from the heart...Am not promoting any race here but honestly I find Arabs like most races; there are goods and bads

That is not entirely true.. I work in an Arab dominated organization and majority of them are locals. I find them very gentle, polite and respectful. They treat expats like us very kindly. I am sure many here will agree with me.

good reply

habibi very easy, if you are so mad for Arab being rude to you, get your exit permit and go back to your country where all the people is nice and educated just like you.....

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I am Canadian Janey Janey but I've been living overseas now for 5 years, my politeness is wearing thin.

One one of the most common mistake people make is "generalizing". Stereotype is common among the less educated people. You don't see a well educated person saying "All.... are... such and such". First of all I was surprise to hear that "All Arabs are rude" from someone with a nickname "Ontario". I am an Arab-Canadian. When I first went to Canada in the 90's I faced discrimination and racesim from Canadain by birth of course of european origin as most canadian are. I did not make a judgment that all Canadians are racsit. And defintly I did not say All North American are for that matter, knwoing how racsit american could be.

If I have a bad experience with some people in a european country, I would not say that everyone in that country are bad, rude,... and I would not generalize it to all european....

Sorry for saying that but only ignorent person who lived only the GULF would say "All arabs". Because a well educated (and we wll know educated doesn't necessarly mean having a university degree, mos of the skilled workers here do not have a degree but they are well educated in life.) person would know that the Gulf represents no more than 30% of Arabs. Go to Morrocco, Algeria, Lebanon, Syria,....... to name a few and see if they are all rude. Hell go to Bahrain, Oman and see ho wnice they are.

I don't deny that there are rude arabs but that could be said about any other natianlity or race. Some Qataries are rude but some of them are nice as well.

Finally, If you realy think that all arab are rude why on earth did you put up with them for 15 years and you still do. Go to another country where people are not rude. Or is it a typicall view of the west to the east and arabs in particular that " They are rude, not educated, terrorist. animal killers, but we have to deal with them because we need their OIL and MONEY."

I have never been ashamed of being Arab and never will, as well as I have never been ashamed of being Canadian and never will. However, I do feel ahsamed when an Arab or a Canadian make such a stupid comment like the one you made.

70-30 ok

The literal meaning of the word arab is "arrogant" or superior. Just like the Jews have their beliefs that they are the chosen ones, the similar view are held by the closest relatives that they are superior race.

In the olden days the Arabs were the ones who were exemplar in the day to day buisness there were master of their own language and other languages.

So in conclusion my understanding the mind sets and the culture the complexity comes to life.

No wonder the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) stressed so much on this issue in his last sermon :"that an arabs has no superiority over a non arab and vice versa, the only one may have over each other is based on how pious one is" .

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I have worked in the Middle East for a few years and found that "Arabs" are no ruder than anyone else..

Gypsy... Are you sure you're Canadian ??? Eh !

Bad attitude tend to be magnified. Don't insult the whole race just because you have had the unfortunate experience of seeing some. Some people are rude because that's what they simply are. You can find them everywhere, not only here.

Writting or discussing such a subject show how much most of u are educated, you are eating and growing up ur family from arab muslim country.

So you have all to respect arab, since you guys are growed up in the streets.

if you are king in ur country...why u r here? you all are slaves for arab......

if you dont like arab poeple, please kindly get out of here and try to find a good job and salary in your country.

best Wishes

You really think they're human?? Oh come on...... No way!! I didn't know that!! Quite a possibility hey?

Actually arab are nomadic beuiodins who were wondering in the deserts and still they are. they have no proper culture.If you see arab history 2 things made them to stand up to other cultures

1. Islam a Phenomina of few centuries

2. Petro dollars a Phenomina of few decades

Using Islam arabs can impose their culture on other cultures in the name of god

using petro dollers they were able to buy things which was a luxury few decades back

A set of people disadvantaged for centuries suddenly get some power it shows in their arrogant behavior.

THe same type of behavior you can see in dalits in INDIA who are opressed for centuries.

If a arab is arrogant to you just stand up and talk stright and see he will be like a rat. THey usvally show arrogance to people of perticular communities, who are weak.

Just chekc and see

I disagree - Its rude from your part to generalize

They are like any other - Have met many nice arabs.

I think Arabs are also human

And like any nationality some of them good and some of them bad

And in my opinion your personality will control how people will react with you

Gypsy, would you do that?

I was about to post the same comment.

Some people do bring out the worst in others.

Did you Google it first?

We are wishy washy and spineless janey janey. In a classic example of Canadian politeness my friend ate something she was allergic to rather then tell the host she was allergic to it.

let's just put it this way, some people are nice, some are just so rude,....fact of life, nobody's perfect..you could have omitted the word Arab, just to prevent generalizations here.... it is really not ok to generalize on certain nationalities just coz of some 'experiences'...

Owen, it was excellent. It was cook with pig's blood. ;)

It's a matter of perspective. When going to Holland and Denmark I was warned the people can seem rude, it's only coz they are more direct than I'm used to in the UK.

The Qataris I work for are very pleasant and I find politeness rewarded by politeness in for example holding a door open for someone I get a thank-you.

janey how was the last dog you ate? was it good?.. :P mine, was superb...

[img_assist|nid=12867|link=none|align=left|width=|height=0]Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

What about Canadians? What's wrong with you people?

Gypsy, it's a sad fact.

Janey Janey you know perfectly well that all Filipinos' eat dog, there tears cause cancer and when a Filipino laughs a child dies.

Yes and all Filipinos eat dog.

Oh and all Indians stink too.

As with all people there are a few who are rude, but if you find that they're ALL being rude tyou should probably take a look at yourself and what you're doing to invite that attitude, because most of us don't find that to be the case.

You'll have to excuse kiwis Supernurse, she isn't very bright.

kiwis, yes honey I gathered that......no need for the duh its incredibly rude just like the children you are describing....

I haven't found Arabs to be any ruder then any other nationality. In general, being raised in Canada, where everyone (regardless of race) is polite to a fault, I find EVERY other culture rude. :p

No Supernurse....what i was thinking was more along the lines of if we had an Arabic person online maybe they could give their opinion duh!

if there are negative attitudes among them, im sure that there are good amongst them.. you are just unlucky to attract the bad ones..

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Yeah I agree with Herne - alot of the children are incredibly rude and naughty. I have never in my life seen children behave like this. Yes and I guess if they behave like that as children they might grown into bigger rude people as well!!!!!!

what like, Dear Arabic person why are you so rude?

To be honest, I think they can come across as abrupt because of their English accent which could be mistconstrued as rudeness.

all of them are rude. Most of them are really nice, or at least I met with the nice ones, or didn't really had any trouble with them.

But I guess it's from their culture. Look at the children, they do whatever they want, and nobody controls them, even if they kick the waiter. So when they grow up, they still think that the word is serving them.

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Thats funny - yes I have had some of the same experiences but then some of them have been nice. Maybe we could have an honest comment from an Arab person as to why they might appear this way to us???

no idea.. But not all are rude..

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not a very nice thread. It shows how well educated you are ...

Tell us where are you from or what your race is , i am sure plenty of people can do some 'generalizing' towards you as well ...

mmm thats a way bit too like generalising......I disagree.

Lol. i really dont know why. but i also know plenty of Arabs that are kind and respectful people.

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