Nic,
I am amazed at your ignorance. Most arabs have led a life of nomad. You can not find the arab 'soul' in the city. Their umbilical cords are attached to the deserts and sand dunes. Please, open your heart to the soulful arab music, arab poetry and mystic arab world. You can't render a place 'cultureless' if it does'nt fits your perception of how things should be. Plus the last few sentences about people coming from miserable and limited backgrounds, tsk tsk...... you have'nt been much around the world, have you.
You said ..................
"LincolnPirate,
What you meant is that this place has no soul.
It’s all sterile and artificial, but what else to expect from a city built in a desert basically started from scratch 10 years ago................"
Nic,
I am amazed at your ignorance. Most arabs have led a life of nomad. You can not find the arab 'soul' in the city. Their umbilical cords are attached to the deserts and sand dunes. Please, open your heart to the soulful arab music, arab poetry and mystic arab world. You can't render a place 'cultureless' if it does'nt fits your perception of how things should be. Plus the last few sentences about people coming from miserable and limited backgrounds, tsk tsk...... you have'nt been much around the world, have you.
You said ..................
"LincolnPirate,
What you meant is that this place has no soul.
It’s all sterile and artificial, but what else to expect from a city built in a desert basically started from scratch 10 years ago................"