Haha ' the typical guy in immigration' that made me laugh; agree with you about the Qatari expat relationship being complicated but its mostly because of wrong assumptions about reach other and because of everyone believing all the negative stereotypes... but you did well to acknowledge that most Qataris love and welcome foreigners and most expats love you and Qatar in equal measure... And I personally try to separate the workplace environment from the day to day life we all share in Qatar...i say this because in any country, workplaces by nature are horrible places and full of bad employees and employers...an expat is suffering somewhere right now under a local boss and a young Qatari guy is being isolated by his expat senior too...a Qatari boss could be annoying a Qatari junior and an expat boss could be torturing another expat; that's the workplace for you I guess... I'm only concerned with how we all treat each other on the roads or in the malls or the parks or the mosques... That part is mostly a great experience - other than the occasional rude local in his flying and xenon flashing land cruiser or the guy in immigration you mentioned haha - so yes, as you say, we love Qatar as our home too and we are just as happy and just as duty bound as you, to stand with Qatar in its time of difficulty... The only difference is you have a local passport and we have our international ones...Many of us have been born and raised here and helped Qatar through its great progress and there's no way we will allow that progress to be slowed by a silly blockade...i love and have lived in all the gcc countries and hope these brotherly states can resolve their petty differences and be united... But if not, then yes its Qatar I am with...yalla bye bye :-)
Haha ' the typical guy in immigration' that made me laugh; agree with you about the Qatari expat relationship being complicated but its mostly because of wrong assumptions about reach other and because of everyone believing all the negative stereotypes... but you did well to acknowledge that most Qataris love and welcome foreigners and most expats love you and Qatar in equal measure... And I personally try to separate the workplace environment from the day to day life we all share in Qatar...i say this because in any country, workplaces by nature are horrible places and full of bad employees and employers...an expat is suffering somewhere right now under a local boss and a young Qatari guy is being isolated by his expat senior too...a Qatari boss could be annoying a Qatari junior and an expat boss could be torturing another expat; that's the workplace for you I guess... I'm only concerned with how we all treat each other on the roads or in the malls or the parks or the mosques... That part is mostly a great experience - other than the occasional rude local in his flying and xenon flashing land cruiser or the guy in immigration you mentioned haha - so yes, as you say, we love Qatar as our home too and we are just as happy and just as duty bound as you, to stand with Qatar in its time of difficulty... The only difference is you have a local passport and we have our international ones...Many of us have been born and raised here and helped Qatar through its great progress and there's no way we will allow that progress to be slowed by a silly blockade...i love and have lived in all the gcc countries and hope these brotherly states can resolve their petty differences and be united... But if not, then yes its Qatar I am with...yalla bye bye :-)