The World Super Culture & Behaviour

In the shortest time, I have met people from a vast number of nationalities. In the last few weeks, i have met people who orignate or from Lebanon, UAE, Syria, Oman, Pakistan, South Africa & Yemen. Similar circumstances, similar job profiles, similar life stages, similar situations. But varied responses.

Cultural moorings change the way one looks at the world. For a person from the west,Dubai is a place in the mid east, rather, part of the east, still developing. For someone from asia, this is his first step towards the west. Well developed, higher standards of living. Others from the middle east come to Dubai for what they can't get in their countries. Opportunity, partying, quick buck, and even peace. The large populance from lebanon and iran will endorse that. It is their region with some more plus plus.

But, the umbilical cord is very strong. People do not change with move. One can see tinges of racism a few from the west. Many from asia still feel subdued, over powered. In meetings and in life their reactions are subservient.

How people react differently with people with the same background or from the same country. Is there sub set of acceptable behaviour with your own people. And a super set of world behaviour?

The more places people go to and more cultures people assimilate, they find the threads of world behaviour. Some commonalities across the world are respect, tolerance, neutrality

As more people travel across the globe, live across countries, I think a super global behaviour will arise. And hopefully it will take the good things from all cultures and manifest in behaviour that will be the pinnacle of our civilisation.

DXB to DXXLB

This is an XL city.
From Coimbatore, Bangalore was XL
From Bangalore, Bombay was XL
From Bombay, Dubai is XXL

From sands of the desert a huge city rising and shining.
Bigger than I saw it for the first time 3 years ago.
Grander than I imagined it would be from what I heard from people.

Visions of one man?
Is it possible? It reminds me of old history texts which spoke of emperors under whose rule trade and culture flourished. This is a history-textbook story. It is big. It is amazing.

XL lifestyles- all designer brands, designer cars, designer villas, designer beaches, designer islands, designer dogs, designer malls, designer designers.
XL opportunity- I meet cab guys turned businessmen, Office boy turned millionaire, Bicycle turned to BMW. People who have ridden the Dubai wave

Happy to be here. Desperate to get out of the suitcase.

Ibn Batata

Ibn Battuta:
The great moroccan traveller.
I didnt know of him till I got to Dubai. A big mall in his name. Apparently he has a crater in the moon named after him too. A glorious adventurer who travelled thousands of miles across dozens of countries. He went where his life took him.
I am now in dubai. Life has brought me here. The fatalist in me has followed.
My voyages are voyages of the body, the mind and the spirit within.
I am Ibn Battuta in my own world. I am Ibn Batata from the batata land of bombay! I seek an adventure, and I know it is one I will get.