It is a very sad fact of life that demand for maids and domestic workers is only common in third world countries
where awareness and enforcement of human rights is very poor. In all other countries where labor laws are enforced, the costs of having a domestic helper is so prohibitive that only a very small percentage of the population (i.e. the very rich only) can afford to have one. So it is sadly not surprising that these workers get abused for the most part. It is this type of society where the woman thinks too highly of herself and her head gets soo high in the clouds where she can be served and pampered and have everything done for her that she starts thinking of herself as a superior being and starts looking down at the helpers. Hence, the de-humanizing look on the helpers and in their own twisted way they start justifying the abuse.
People and particularly in Lebanon and in the Middle east forget that they are dealing with humans. As long as they can afford to pay your salary, no matter where you come from, they tend to think of you as modern day slave. The lebanese are the worst in the middle east they are slightly more educated than the rest of the arabs so they tend to think of themselves as highly superior beings to everyone else not realizing that they have set the bar too low...as such they think of themselves as highly superior to everyone else and they mistreat everyone else. It is very sad for the domestic helpers that people like the lebanese will take at least 3 or 4 generations to maybe evolve and reach the current level of the civilized world. In the meantime domestic helpers have to endure...I hope that people everywhere in the world realize that the domestic helper is a human being and not a robot and has feelings and needs just as their employers have.
Ne prenez pas les choses personnelment.
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
It is a very sad fact of life that demand for maids and domestic workers is only common in third world countries
where awareness and enforcement of human rights is very poor. In all other countries where labor laws are enforced, the costs of having a domestic helper is so prohibitive that only a very small percentage of the population (i.e. the very rich only) can afford to have one. So it is sadly not surprising that these workers get abused for the most part. It is this type of society where the woman thinks too highly of herself and her head gets soo high in the clouds where she can be served and pampered and have everything done for her that she starts thinking of herself as a superior being and starts looking down at the helpers. Hence, the de-humanizing look on the helpers and in their own twisted way they start justifying the abuse.
People and particularly in Lebanon and in the Middle east forget that they are dealing with humans. As long as they can afford to pay your salary, no matter where you come from, they tend to think of you as modern day slave. The lebanese are the worst in the middle east they are slightly more educated than the rest of the arabs so they tend to think of themselves as highly superior beings to everyone else not realizing that they have set the bar too low...as such they think of themselves as highly superior to everyone else and they mistreat everyone else. It is very sad for the domestic helpers that people like the lebanese will take at least 3 or 4 generations to maybe evolve and reach the current level of the civilized world. In the meantime domestic helpers have to endure...I hope that people everywhere in the world realize that the domestic helper is a human being and not a robot and has feelings and needs just as their employers have.
Ne prenez pas les choses personnelment.
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."