Westerners are least trusted in Qatar

Dear Qataris, I feel for you for not trusting westerners. I am from Eastern Europe and I lived many years in the USA, Canada, western Europe and I learned how these people are, they don't respect themselves nor others, they never keep their promises, they love to break their promises, they cheat, lie and steal whatever they can, especially the Portuguese, Canadians. As workers they are not to be trusted at all. They say "tomorrow" (amanhã) which is a joke, it means they will never show up for work or will show up 3 days or 7 days later and will do everything to sow the work down. Their workmanship is of the worst quality! They are extremely lazy, liars, always say things they never do such as they will tell you they will bring you vegetables from their garden and fruits, but then they never do bring anything and they later say oh i forgot..., i will bring you tomorrow, but am really avoid the word tomorrow since it means never or much later, but you can be sure that the Portuguese will never do the work oand you don't have to fire them as you simp0ly never hire these crooks and liars and lazy bastards, western Europeans and their women are just useless eaters. Canadians, very much unreliable and crooked folk, so are US Americans as well, a bit less crooked, more hnest, but never keep their word. If you hire people,m hire from Scandinavia (not Swedish though!!), Baltic countries, Central Europe, Germans, but never the rest of western Europe or North Americans. I think Mexicans and Chinese are hard working. Vietnamese. Polish are hard working too. But not the French, Portuguese, etc. It is insult to me when they say and never do thngs or do them much later very much DISRESPECTING my time!

So we have an issue of trust? but I'm wondering how much of interaction did Qatari had with the "westerners" or other group of people? Or is it just a baseless judgement?

Personally having lived outside Qatar and in the "west" this whole study is non sense to me !

so, lately they came to burst or hiding their feelings with a survey?

I'm going to take a leap of faith translator and trust you..... Well the stuff you write here anyway.

True britexpat, very true. But I guess the word "trust" is not well understood or bound, as clearly stated above by mozaismyhero in comment #2 to this topic. Khalid thanks untrustworthy cyber entity he never met, go figure.

Surely this proves the outcome of the survey :O)

Very strange khalid, you don't even know this person and you say they are untrustworthy. What is this an episode of the x files?

And do not forget do contact

Qatar National Research Fund, for granting funds to come with this kind of rubbish. See how the project was started below, and see what they did at the end.

http://www.qnrf.org

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Study report directly from Qatar University (see Page 22)

http://www.qu.edu.qa/sesri/documents/Projects/Projects_formatted/Social_Capital_executive_summary.pdf

This is the co-author of the study, from University of Michigan, perhaps you can contact him and see if he can shed some light on what this study is all about

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/polisci/people/faculty/ci.tesslermark_ci.detail

Oh great, just great Khalid. You accuse me of lying and faking statements, then you discover that your glasses are broken and could not read past the headlines, and you come back to thank me for highlighting the study, and yet you find it too much to apologize. That takes us back to trust, and how one can trust others.

No you don't deserve an apology, cause I still think you are non trust worthy person.

Khalid, I do not insist on a well deserved apology

Thanks for highlighting this as I will write to the news paper and to the Qatar university, as I don not consider this to be an appropriate approach.

Having read the article, I would suggest that the whole exercise was pretty amateurish and not becoming of a University.

The deductions are obvious given the questions asked.

Khalid, stop making a joke of yourself, read the whole article, not just the title, and read this part too

Khalidglory - Sounds so ideal "you don't classify people according to their race" but hey that's not the case here.

Hey everyone, the survey in the paper talk about people preference in terms of accommodation and majority of the locals would rather choose to live in areas near their parents or their close relative and so on. I could not read any thing about trusting Westerners, in fact such a thing does not exist in our culture nor it is acceptable by our religion to classify people according to their race.

Hey everyone, we have a smarty in the party. Why not write what's true if what I wrote was false.

I actually clicked on the link skimming through the paper and all what have been written by translator was false and has no base at all..... I think there is a good reason why people don't trust you Mr. Translator.

Lost in Translation?

The study is from Qatar University! They do not have professionals! They are still in their infancy! What do you expect?

I sincerley hope the translation has been done very badly as this is probably one of the worst examples of poor academic research probably since the eugenics debate.

Why on earth would you want to find out who people trust in such a subjective way? What is their next survey, Who are the easiest nationalities to have sex with? or maybe Can you trust a dark skinned person?

NO trust. So nothing to worry about. By sheer numbers, Westerners are few.

I just can't get my head around to imagining how a person can blindly trust another or mistrust even based on where he/she was born and who his/her ancestors were!

Couldn't agree more!

FA:Yes it sure does..though it's wrong by all means, not to mention a very narrow minded discriminatory way to look at things.

I find such articles incite anger and hate. Not good for anything. Isn't the situation bad enough already?

FatimaH, This is exactly what is happening here in Qatar... ppl are judging a person not by his Action, but by his Nationality, What car he Drives.....

That's a joke! I can trust Qataris but I cannot trust other arab nationalities. I got this feeling that they badly need to have sex with you if they see you walking in the streets. I'm not making generalization here but hey most of them stop their cars, ask you to join them or ask your number. Pathetic. I trust westerners more. I would definitely not trust people who think that you cannot be trusted just bec. you have a beer in hand.

Fuber, i will say 20%.. anything wrong with that?

Btw how labors accessed to Internet and filled the survey form, Bit confused! Someone care to explain please?

I tried to read the version in the Gulf Times but had to give up when it was no longer clear who was referring to who. Must be too early in the morning for me.

Perhaps they could have just presented the raw data in tables, rather than trying to convert it to text?

I'm also curious about the data collection methodology - was it done over the phone or face to face? And either way, I wonder how honest the responses would be - if someone rang you up (so they know your phone number) and asked you questions about how trustworthy you think Qataris are, what would you say?

I work in a mutli-national company people hailing from no less than 7 different countries and all walks of life. Never had any issues trusting anyone of them.

britexpat, actually I found GT version very confusing. I bet it was translated from another translation.

Really I thought it was opposite.

reason nt to consider Asians and Africans must be to hide the truth

chairboy, you confuse it with Iran!

I would suggest that most of those living in labour camps are Asians.

The posting is a bit confusing as the following tells the full story :

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=515016&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16

I heard that they liked to harrass dogs and throw stones at women with blond hair - isnt it strange how communication gets confused...........

Living in a "local" neighborhood can be a headache. The children have no manners and even harrass foreign women with blond hair. They are extremely noisy and love to throw stones at your dog!

Lols LP !

Arabs don't trust Arabs at all!! Especially not when it comes to women!!!

The Qatar Tribune, (terrible paper) reported the story along the lines of who would you most like to leave next to. Of course you would prefer to live next to your own culture rather than a foreign one, but 1% did reply that they would like next to single bachelors..... now I'd love to know who that was, was it ladies?

All these surveys are BS.

and the intention of the survey is?

Totally agree Chairboy!

You must be joking!!! What a crock!!!

All residents trust Qataris : 74%

All residents trust Arab residents : 64%

Comedy gold!!!!!!!

Yes, the Raya arabic newspaper used the arabic word equivalent to the "People from the West". Gulf Times have either poor translators, or they intentionally wanted to out-focus the term.

Trusting Arabs 61%, I highly doubt it, at least whom i met, they never trust a certain Arab nationals!

The title in the Gulf Times was Expatriates, above is Westerners?

what do you think..westerners trust arabs? as well?

fubar, how did you jump to such a conclusion? Nowhere in the article they listed the nationalities of the sample, so how?

Very interesting that they don't consider Asians worth questioning!

You would proudly say only donkeys are exported to the gulf? Have you been smoking something you shouldn't???

Interesting what the Qataris say about Arab residents, I would have expected them to be one of the least trusted, but then can you trust a survey!

I should be a consultant to make loads of money with such scientific studies

There is no sub-categories of residents in the newspaper article. I doubt the study itself went that far as the sample count is small.

Pappu_Pager ==> correct, everyone would trust their own kind most so this study is BS and money waster..

what about the Asians and Africans

if you would ask westerners it would be reveres,, this is BS

Interesting, what about the other nationalities? Would be interesting to see their response to them.

I guess it also depends on what you mean by trust. Trust is rather subjective and personal, kind of like beauty...

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