If you are a brown skin, you will have problems. Over here, not just the locals, but even other expats (who develop a huge sense of entitlement and superiority complex the moment they step off the plane) categorise south asian brown skinned people as low paid labour, regardless of their actual skills, job and education.
Just yesterday I saw one brown skinned security guard stopping another brown skinned (well dressed, and educated man) from entering. No such restrictions where placed on other single men who walked right in.
This is the sad truth.
The most amusing form of discrimination I see everyday is the dual standards some of the filipino staff use on western expats vs south asian expats. I have a colleague who when at the coffee shop downstairs in my office building gets ignored by the staff and all the "sir, good morniiiiiiing" and "how are youuuuuu"'s disappear. We discuss this often and find it very amusing. This guy earns 12 - 14 times more than the coffee shop workers, is highly educated, well dressed and extremely polite, yet they feel they need to look down on him.
If you are a brown skin, you will have problems. Over here, not just the locals, but even other expats (who develop a huge sense of entitlement and superiority complex the moment they step off the plane) categorise south asian brown skinned people as low paid labour, regardless of their actual skills, job and education.
Just yesterday I saw one brown skinned security guard stopping another brown skinned (well dressed, and educated man) from entering. No such restrictions where placed on other single men who walked right in.
This is the sad truth.
The most amusing form of discrimination I see everyday is the dual standards some of the filipino staff use on western expats vs south asian expats. I have a colleague who when at the coffee shop downstairs in my office building gets ignored by the staff and all the "sir, good morniiiiiiing" and "how are youuuuuu"'s disappear. We discuss this often and find it very amusing. This guy earns 12 - 14 times more than the coffee shop workers, is highly educated, well dressed and extremely polite, yet they feel they need to look down on him.
Only in Qatar!