Is Dubai A Model Of Successful Multi-Culturalism?

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]Dubai is one of the most multicultural and multi-ethnic cities in the entire world.

[00:00:06]>> Mhm. It's also one of the safest cities in the entire world. It's also one of the cleanest cities in the entire world.

[00:00:12]The crime rate is as close to zero as you're going to get. And this is a city of 3 million people. It's not some tiny place. Yeah. Um people are just there with their families. They're working and so on. So, when I see a lot of American, British, European, and so on commentators, especially more on the conservative right-wing side, Mhm. I I think I hear a lot is that multiculturalism doesn't work.

[00:00:36]Multiculturalism has failed.

[00:00:38]And I know what people mean when they say that, but I don't think they've actually quite diagnosed it correctly.

[00:00:46]I don't think it's the having a lot of people of different cultures, let alone ethnicities, racial groups, or whatever together in one place that is the is the problem, which is most people stop there. They're like, Oop, that's it. It doesn't work.

[00:01:01]>> Yeah. Right? I think the the the problem is the place they're in, not knowing what the boundaries and rules of law, respect, tolerance, human dignity, and so on are and should be.

[00:01:18]So, when I'm in a place like Dubai, you could say Abu Dhabi, you could say Doha.

[00:01:22]The reason why it works is because the rule of law is very strong.

[00:01:28]As long as you are not hurting, robbing, stealing, stabbing, shooting, you're you're not you're not hurting anyone, Yep. you're not taking anybody's stuff, you're not being disrespectful, shouting and screaming at people in public, I don't know, getting naked in public, do it doing any any of this weird crazy stuff that for whatever reason in the UK sometimes, certainly in the US, like people kind of just like tolerate and shrug and they're like, "Oh, yeah, well, that guy's shoplifting. Okay, whatever, right?" Like they don't they don't tolerate that. So, there are some very hard lines and then within that it's like, cool.

[00:02:04]You can practice your faith, you can go to church, you can go to mosque, you can go to synagogue. When I was there, I saw like a Jewish guy with like the tzitzit and the kippah and full on everything, just like, you know, walking around the city and I was like, that's actually really interesting. Next thing you know, walking past guys who are wearing thobes and kafiyas and then there's another, you know, Russian family there and they've got their like Orthodox crosses and actually no one no one bothers anyone. No one has beef with anyone. Pe- people just get on. So, it's actually very multicultural and even multireligious, despite the fact it's in an Islamic country.

[00:02:36]But, it just works because people agree on those things and it seems like what's what's happening here is you you you're not having the assimilation and the respect of the local culture and you're not having the respect and enforcement of like the ground rules.

[00:02:53]If it's just like, okay, you can come here and you can take stuff and you can harm people and you can talk to people however you want and you can just you can just do whatever you want, then I think that's where it really really decays. I don't think it's you know, I'm my family's from Nigeria.

[00:03:07]Yeah. Right? Like, we are clearly different ethnic background, right? I'm you know people from all over. Yeah. And cool, you can clearly see different ethnic backgrounds or whatever, but every it's it's fine, right? It it all works because we all have plenty of lines of agreement where yeah, we're not going to take from each other or harm each other and we're and we're also going to respect one another, right?

[00:03:30]>> there's a respect for differences, right? This this is the thing that the liberals can't do. It because they they're like, okay, no, everyone's the same. It's like, no, they're not the same. And And Dubai is a great example.

[00:03:41]No, no, no.

[00:03:42]Cuz I'm I'm going to I've never been to Dubai, but I'm going to go out on a limb, but it's not >> [clears throat] >> a Western liberal government.

[00:03:47]>> No.

[00:03:49]But, it works a lot better than us because in in a non-liberal state, you would recognize the group as having an integrity as the group, right? But the Western liberal state can't do that with the indigenous group, because then you've got the intersectional power calculus to say, "Well, hang on a second.

[00:04:05]>> [laughter] >> The dominant group of Ireland is the Irish. Well, they must be oppressing the minorities." It's like, Here's a question.

[00:04:13]Why do you think that they don't apply their same logic to other countries, though? No one has a problem not Here's the same liberals. They don't have a problem with Japan. They don't really have a problem with Saudi. They don't have a problem with Nigeria mostly being Nigerian. They don't They So, they they don't apply the same logic to other nations. In fact, if someone were to say, "You know what? Like, let's um let's have a million immigrants from Europe a year to Ghana." They wouldn't say Ghana needs diversity. Yeah, they'd probably oppose it. They'd probably say, "Oh, this is some type of colonialism."

[00:04:46]Or yeah, gentrification or whatever it is, right? You'll say, "Hey, you're But, they don't apply any of that to their own nation. So, sometimes I I struggle to understand the mentality, because I'm like Again, the same people I'll see them even on Twitter and stuff. They'll be like praising Japan, or they'll be Oh, look at how clean and safe it is and da da da. And I'm like, But, it's unwanted us. Yeah, but I'm like, "Okay, I thought you're the open borders person." Like, even in Japan, as far as I understand, you can be a non-Japanese ethnic person, and you can say say you're born there, you're raised there, whatever. You can even you can even become a Japanese citizen, Mhm.

[00:05:26]but even in their perspective, you aren't really Japanese in the truest sense. Even the way when when someone says a Japanese person, you think of a Japanese ethnically, yeah.

[00:05:38]person, right? When someone says American or British or whatever, right?

[00:05:41]It's or French, it it's more you don't know what that person may look like. But then again, if someone were to say English, you've got no problem with that. I think people recognize, okay, like in in English, I know what an English Yeah. I think person is. So, I I just don't quite get the um I and look, I I I'm not expecting sort of logical consistency from these people. No, no. There I think there is a logical consistency. Um >> I have come to the conclusion that I think they think that white people are better than other people.

[00:06:10]Mhm.

[00:06:11]Tell me more.

[00:06:12]>> I think that what it is is the fact that the last 300 years of history have been maybe more, 4 500, have been the European colonial and imperial domination of the world.

[00:06:28]And that's not always been the case.

[00:06:31]Actually, uh for most of history before about 1450, um the Europeans are actually not terribly impressive people, um not terribly different than anyone else. And if you were to just examine the average empire throughout human history, the average conqueror would have a kind of you know, olive, maybe slightly darker skin skin tone, and he'd come from Asia somewhere because Asia is the heartland of empires. Um but because of the historical circumstance that we're in, uh the Europeans happened to be in a place and in a time and at a certain level of technological development with a certain set of ideas that allowed for the industrial development of Europe and the scientific development of Europe above their contemporaries. Uh this is not normal and it won't be like this forever, you know, and it certainly won't be. But the way that the Western left-winger thinks is that historical There's no historical contingency. It's kind of historical inevitability.

[00:07:36]And so, this is now a question of how do we arrive at parity between Europe and the rest of the world. And so, all their entire thought process is how can Europe or I'm going [snorts] to say white people, but what I mean is European >> European people. European people and European founded nations, like America, Canada, Australia. How can these be ameliorated and how can the rest of the world be justly raised up so that there is an equality? But of course, this is based on a false premise as well, that a European Europe has always been superior, which it hasn't, and it's definitely going downhill now, so it's definitely not going to be superior forever. But also, as if there's ever been an equality or could be an equality while there are differences. You know, if you want a particular, you know, if you if you do actually respect African cultures or whatever, then you can't expect them to be the same or equal with any other culture, but then that's never been on the cards, right?

[00:08:29]It's never been something they've ever thought about because you you you you want to be particular rather than have a universal equality because that can only be found in homogeneity. And so, this is why you get the kind of McDonaldization of the entire world under the liberal order. They're like, "No, no, no, everything has to be equal and anything that's not equal essentially has to be attacked and brought down into line or raised up artificially."