Category: Dubai
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The Social Identities of California and The United Arab Emirates: How does the social history of California during the Gold Rush and Reconstruction eras relate today’s social patterns in The United Arab Emirates?
The UAE is in the middle of a modern-day gold rush. Despite the optimistic connotations behind any subject regarding a gold rush, the UAE, like nineteenth century California, is experiencing a social identity crisis. Unfree labor systems, similar to California’s unfree labor systems that rendered Chinese, African, and Native American statuses nearly as slaves, exist…
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