The Real Dubai

independent.co.uk

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This resolves to the same article as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550719

Agreed.

The duplicate detection failed for me. Both the submissions, point to the same url, Why did then duplicate detection failed?

The older submission linked to

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-dark...

which now redirects to

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-har...

They don't point to exactly the same URL. The older one had "news" in the middle of the URL, this one had "opinion" in the middle of the URL. Clicking on the older link redirected to the same as this link.

Thanks for pointing it out.

What I find so interesting about this article is that they way it is written it combines story telling with the actual facts as they are in Dubai. During my visits there, I've never gotten over the feeling that the luxurious facade that most everybody associates with Dubai was built on the back of what is effectively slave labor.

I actually feel more at ease in the Karama area than in the Dubai written about in the article. Yes, it's a very poor area, but over there people don't feel the need to pretend to be nice to you.

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