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It's mind boggling how bad the arabic translation is at: http://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetvie...

It's like they ran the text in google translate and never bothered to check the results.

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Never mind the actual window-washers and builders who made these buildings are de-facto slaves to the Monarch of Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Then in the next demo over they try to get all multicultural with the first nations language "ᓱᑯᑦᑎᐊᓃᒃᑲᓗᐊᕐᖓᑦ ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ? "

http://www.vice.com/vice-news/the-slaves-of-dubai

Arabic is a bit like English. Just like how England is not the country with majority of English speakers, In the same way 'Arabs' don't make up all the Arabic speakers.

Arabic speakers exists in nearly every country where there are Muslims. Which is what nearly 30% of the world population?

The same is said for practically every civilization ever.

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