Yeah, that place you slept in was definitely some kind of brothel. No normal hotel will have neon pink lights like that, and the way she immediately shut those doors and took your passport.
@fizzinsoda wait this is the first time I actually think about it and it makes total sence (mostly). Sometimes some dude uploads the video after the cameraman disappears, I think it happens with war footage a lot
That's nonsense to claim so generally. Look at Germany or Japan after WWII, when they had to rebuilt their countries from the ground up to become two of the most richest countries in the world. No slavery. The average workers had it better than anywhere else in the world. Only in recent decades Germany and Japan started to slip...
Young man, you didn't even scratch the surface but it would have been extremely dangerous if you had. The accomodations of the workers are truly disgusting and women who are there as housekeepers have terrible sad stories. In the last 15 years most of the stories have been scrubbed off the net.
please do not generalise and use this opportunity to shit on every employer who might house a housekeeper or labour worker. it’s the way of living to have that here. every country works at different levels and there’s different classes. stop acting like people torture them. if anything there are so many organisations and volunteers in place to support and provide them with free help through food, money or clothes.
@4yahelmHi. You're insane for excusing a country exploiting and horribly mistreating their workers with "It's how they do things." I've personally lived in middle class Qatari, Saudi, and lower class Syrian households. They are better lives than what these people have.
@4yahelmthe fact donations exist to help "the help" speaks volumes..people have done horrible things always, that doesnt make it right...its disgusting how their economy is arranged and im personally going to crap on it daily given the opportunity
I find this comment so interesting. I grew up in dubai and moved away in 2019. We had charity drives at schools and would collect things for the workers and then someone would drop them off at the camps. Sometimes my mom would go there herself and hand out some things and sometimes we came with. It’s so interesting seeing everyone panic over him going there when it wasn’t scary or weird at all just 7 years ago. We just drove right in and chatted with people etc. handed out food and utilities we definitely weren’t legally allowed to give them lol
@07laein@07laeina tbh I don’t know anything about Dubai, this video was like an introduction. That’s crazy how normalised it is 😭😭😭😭 I assumed that it was really shady business and the authorities would try kick him out
@yves_lover1 idk if it still is that way so don’t take my word for it but some years back it was. But now sm things have changed and the city is completely unrecognisable also culturally
@yves_lover1The moment he showed up in those labor camps, they didn't immediately connect the dots that he was going to spill the beans to a huge following on a social medium. For all they knew, he was considering working in one of those camps
@AliHashim-t3c You missed the point. What she meant was the abnormally high numbers of bodies that were shipped out. i just checked. There used to be a high number of Nepali, Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi construction workers that died due to unsafe work conditions within UAE. In recent years its gotten better after those South Asian countries applied pressure on UAE to improve work safety conditions.
Dear God! They actually put dead people in coffins, respectfully, and send them back to their country of origin?! They don't dig mass graves and dump everyone in there like with every Socialist experiment ever!? How dare they respect people's remains!
i know right, i mean hes not even a tuff (cant defend him self in case he is getting jumped) or ugly one either and yet he survived the whole ordeal, im so confused right now :D
The shot at 12:30 of you eating Dubai chocolate as a bus of workers drops off behind you is the most unintentional symbolic imagery ever this is terrible
lol you think the workers wouldn't be coming to Emirates on their own? mind you Dubai is just a city btw. You think western countries are any different
i stayed in dubai for 3 days. walked around the area, the mall, and felt the exact same thing. a souless place built on arrogance, entitlement, money and wealth. i hated it.
Yes! I hate places where it's a custom for every doorman, hotel and facility. For that, I have a separate ID. I give them the ID and say I don't have my passport with me.
If you do, go to your country's embassy and report it and apply for a replacement. It helps if you have a record of all the information on your passport somewhere else like on your phone.
Yeahh the comment I was looking for, i saw documentaries of people that was trapped and became a slave in an arabic country because He gave his Passeport to someone and that person did not give it back
In many countries, the owner of your residence is required to register xpat residents with police within 24 hrs of arival with passport, visa, and possibly return ticket details, provide photocopies or demand receipt..
Yeah, I've heard what happens to workers from India/Africa that go to Dubai and hand over their passports... not gonna lie, as soon as she asked for that, I would be out of there. Not that its ever safe for me to go to Dubai...
Hotels all over the world ask to take your passport. I have always successfully declined, sometimes after some back and forth. Only one place turned me away completely - a scooter rental in Phuket.
He didn't post the video while in Dubai. Also he left before posting it, outside of the UAE you're generally safe. He probably recorded with secret cameras otherwise he'd have been reported to the police by locals for recording. If he returns though he's guaranteed to be detained the whichever airport he lands at.
To be fair, he's an idiot that only cares about his outward appearance, and pretending to be the epitome of masculine. He's a himbo jock from hell, but not as endearing, nor as surprisingly intelligent as the cartoon stereotype of a himbo.
Oh and they also like payed Isreal millions even tho they said they “support” Palestine and there’s many secrets about the president but I can’t say since I would probably get killed
It's so obvious that their gold isn't theirs. Their land barely has any and the gold IS BRIGHT YELLOW literally derives from north east Africa (SUDAN). BLOOD GOLD FR. Families are dying it's so sad. They not only steal the gold and murder but they also steal the designs of ethnic Sudanese jewellery and clothes.
A single moment or photo doesn’t define the UAE. Dubai is one of the safest, strongest, and fastest-growing cities in the world, giving millions of expats real opportunities to earn, learn, and succeed. Your dramatized view of a bus and workers isn’t reality - it’s just exaggeration. The UAE’s progress and the lives built here speak far louder than your internet commentary.
dude if i was your mom i would be losing my mind. what do you mean you flew to dubai alone to stay in some random lady's dirty compound and she took your passport 😭😭😭 i would be calling the embassy lmao
Bro lowkey. I feel like the only reason you didn’t get trafficked was because Bonita realized you were recording her. Don’t ever let anyone take your passport like that again. Thank god you’re a RUclipsr.
I dunno. In many European countries it's a standard that they take your ID (if you're a EU citizen) or passport. You usually get it later the same day or on the next day depending on how late you arrive. It happens because the law requires hotels to report every tourist to authorities. Nowadays they tend to be quicker with the process cause everything is digital but in many places it still takes a while. It's not like sure sign you will get trafficked, just a standard procedure in many countries. Although sometimes they really aren't quick with it all.
.You realize that companies in their home countries are the ones who employ them, and this explains many horrific stories of workers committing crimes against residents, including the rape of a child. This led to changes in the law in the UAE, such as preventing workers from obtaining security jobs, because a Pakistani policeman raped an Emirati primary school girl. There are many such stories. Many Emirati residents are naturalized citizens from South Asia, but with an Arab culture. The original Arabs there are committed to this. Don't play the victim; go and blame your government and the West.I saw terrible things done by South Asian workers. The UAE doesn't force them; they come with contracts from their home countries, and the UAE pays their home countries so the workers receive a salary. But South Asian companies are corrupt and steal from the workers' wages, giving them only a small amount. The UAE has provided aid to South Asian countries, but as I said, there's no point in giving aid to ungrateful and spiteful people
@orbitFlyoni_F2020vu That's a lie. (not the rape thing. Don't know shit about that) I watched an Italian worked for a hotel in dubai in hospitality earning around $400 bucks per month. He ignored the salary because it's a famous hotel and he was there for experience. There's no third party involved on that one. Was threatened by his employer in Dubai that if he doesn't return after his 1-month vacation, his Filipino coworker will have a deduction for their salary. What he did is he didn't go back and paid his coworker money instead for the salary deduction. Nope, it's not our government, its UAE government normalizing slavery. WE DONT NEED YOUR AID. Thank you very much. You can shove that to your throat. We owe you nothing and we never receive shit from your country.
There are many rich people who want to make the whole world like this. Them eating gilded caviar in glass skyscrapers while workers break their backs to scrape by.
Feel like people should be allowed to make it big but also everyone should be afforded a good quality of life. And most importantly the opportunity to improve their life if they want.
Yes, and is why it scares me when I see how much of Qatar's money now flooding into the U.S., cause with money comes influence. I wish I could tell Trump that not all money is good money, as us on the street level of life already know.
The whole world is like this already. It's just masked, because, like he said, Dubai has the destitute slave laborers and ultra-rich together in one place, but the rest of the world has them separated by having the two groups in different countries.
You are brave af to be saying the stuff you were saying outloud in Dubai. I hope you knew ahead of time how dangerous what you did was. It's not much of a loss, but you absolutely cannot go back to that country
@FrumpetMoof well you go to jail for giving someone the middle finger. If you are putting the country on blast for hundreds of thousands of people, the punishments are probably quite a bit worse.
@FrumpetMoof considering that Saudi arabia literally jailed people for making nagetive reviews (iam not making that up btw look it up) He exposed UAE infront of millions of people, he is not coming back in one piece.
Also I want to warn everyone about Abu Dhabi. They traffic people in tbe airports. The Airport is in on it. If you're a woman, do not go to the toilets alone, especially if you are a foreigner. And do not go to the end toilet stall by the wall. There is a door behind the wall, and halls behind the door. Stay safe please
I never thought of Dubai as perfect utopia. It always left a bad taste in my mouth and now I know there’s a massive human rights violation going on there.
Do you understand that you can't go back to Dubai after making this video, you can't even transit through. They will literally make you one of those slaves because of this video. Be warned!
i live in qatar, and the whole gulf relies on these workers. they are sacrificing their livelihood and comfort for their family back at home to have a better life. the only reason i carry cash to this day is to give them a tip. knowing some people genuinely see them as anything but fellow human is absolutely disgusting. we’re all just somebody’s kid. not to mention the current gncde happening in sudan right now which the UAE is funding. life is so unfair
@mra-e8wyeah, but not enough to better their existence. And many are not free to leave because their "employer" took their passport away or/and says they have a "debt" they have to pay off, because of the cost of the transportation, visa, accomdation... This is what modern slavery is.
They’ve been doing that for several years now, it blew up on twitter yesterday due to all the execution videos appearing after they took a city. Qatar and UAE also propped up Bukele in El Salvador to launder their dark money via his Crypto initiatives, as well as use MS13 he rounded up for their operations in Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Ukraine/Russia. These El Salvadorian MS13 members who were supposed to be jailed at CECOT- which Qatar and UAE helped financed- instead get relocated to Socotra which UAE seized and are trained there by Erik Prince’s Academi. Once done they’re deployed to the aforementioned countries to pursue the UAE’s interests. In the case of Sudan that’s securing control over Gold Mines in Darfur which is where all the Gold in the Gold Souqs of Dubai come from. Darfur Gold is to Dubai was South African De Beers Diamonds are to I s r a el.
@ohitsbre7535they go to great lengths to finance one of the two sides of the sudanese civil war, the RSF. The RSF are genociadal maniac terrorists that control about half the country and are ethnically cleansing the minorites there, which they have been doing for years even before the civil war started, when they were part of the sudanese army in the former regime (so that they are doing it now surprises absolutely nobody). I saw a comment that said they are "like Al Qaeda but without the islamist fundamentalism", so yeah. The other side of the civil war is not great either, but they are more your typical corrupt african dictatorship
@jmanly707 u have no idea how serious this is, there is 100% no way he can go back , the fact he managed to just fly out with out any problem is a miracle of its own. Ppl really dont know how dangerous it really is down there, if ur rich ur fine but if ur justa random joe like this kid was , there would be extremly high risk they would be inrolled in to slavery.
I really liked the bit where you talked about having the privilege to leave. It opened my eyes as well. Let’s hope that in times to come, such injustice against humanity by humanity stops. I will not be supporting this injustice and won’t be visiting Dubai any time soon.
I agree with what you are saying about it happening in every country however the scale to which it is blatantly happening in Dubai is worrying. If we can try to avoid supporting it openly then surely that is a good thing?
@AbdNasib09Are you implying that the multiple buses full of labourers and the poor infrastructure used to house these people he walked us through are all nonsense? Also are you trying to deny the inequalities shown? Maybe you should make your own video to disprove this if you really believe so.
That whole freaking city feels like an airport lounge at 3 am. You haven’t eaten, barely have any money and your flight just got delayed by 8 hours. Enjoy Dubai
As much as Dubai feels like home to me since I was raised there, It genuinely makes me so happy to see an influencer making a video abt the actual reality of it. Dubai is nice only if you have money, but growing up and seeing these ppl was genuinely saddening and this is js showing a glimpse of how they live. The way locals treat those ppl in public is fvcking sick.
@JA07-i4c But there are levels to this niceness, and I would rather be poor in, say, Switzerland than in Dubai. That was what the comment was pointing at.
While you were grabbing your passport, Bonita saw your phone recording so I'm pretty sure that's the reason you were able to get your Passport back, please do not go to hotels without recording or bringing a printed passport Edit: The reason why most Air BNB's in Dubai do this is to get a customer to struggle with leaving since most Air BNB's that do this are low quality and charge HIGH price to get your passport back and WILL get you to work in slavery just to pay for getting your passport back.
Not to defend her or anything, but if he booked her from Expedia or Airbnb, they need to be registered, and you can look at others review, which add some kind of security, and flagging unwarranted behaviours.
Definitely good advice, but I think he would have been ok, he could have just gone to the Canadian consulate, that shit only works on poor people from poor countries that no one gives a fuck about, not a rich person from the first world who's a big deal on the internet.
hey guys because this is actually serious and ben is a real one for bringing this to the mainstram. im half desi so i already knew how fucked up dubai is but props to you ben. please dont actually pour salt and acid into 1000 open cuts on ur body EDIT: love seeing a lot of tyler fans in my reply which i love but this comment isnt about tyler. this is about modern slavery.
I watched a documentary which basically explained the slavery in Dubai, and how young girls from Africa would go to Dubai because someone would lie to them and tell them they could get a good job there and then their passports would get taken and they won’t be able to return. And they also have apps where you can sell the workers, like actual slaves. And I don’t think they’re actually paid anything if not pennies so they’re literally stranded there while facing abuse and horrible living conditions. I once had a really great teacher who taught me while I was in Nigeria, and the last I heard of him was that he was offered a really nice teaching job in Dubai and moved there with his family. I can only hope the best for him after hearing all this.
its not that deep i had 3 nannies all of them where filipino and the money they gain in a month in the uae is 10x what they would gain there + they get their own rooms and food everyday so they arent complaining
Dubai is also known for another sx trafficking case about a woman, there theories about it online called “Porta Potty.” And it’s pretty gross, be warned. A girl was trafficked there, her name was Maria Konvluck, and she was found after missing in Dubai after a party, injured with broken limbs and a spine. Many think she was forced to do certain acts, but even admitting to rape in Dubai is illegal, and can result in both people to go to jail. She denied doing so, but genuinely who knows what happened to her??
@prue8034I’m not totally 100% of that particular statement but I do know it’s illegal to have sex out of marriage and well since the uae is very misogynistic my guess is that it would be very easy for a man to say they had consensual sex out of marriage which would in turn, jail both. Also positions in power come into play. Also getting pregnant out of wedlock is illegal, abortions are illegal as well so if a rape victim gets pregnant, (not 100% on this) but I’m guessing is that the victim would still have to serve jail time? Quick edit: I found this statement “According to Amnesty International Gulf researcher Drewery Dyke, the situation is far from uncommon. “Rape victims have been accused of having engaged in illicit sexual relations, while the rape allegations themselves have been left uninvestigated,” he said. “While press reports suggest that this situation has slightly improved, anecdotal accounts indicate that vulnerable women from migrant communities continue to be detained for illicit sexual relations, often being left to languish in jail with their newborn babies.” Also the uae isn’t the only country with this extramarital sex ban
I can't believe this is still happening. 10 - 15 years ago I heard about this only people were dying left and right because they couldn't even take water breaks and companies were forcing them to work through the hottest hours of the day. The government knew it was happening. They claimed they were doing something about it but clearly not much.
Im an australian who grew up in dubai and the issues of slavery was so evident that even I, a child at the time, could pick up on it. people just pretended it didnt exist or wasnt an issue. Construction workers were the number one most horrificly treated in my mind- the pace in which building and roadwork would be done were insanely fast, where steep deadlines and exessive heat cannot be met with fair working rights. Also not many people talk about it but the nanny system was terrible too. many working families would hire live in or full time nannys for childcare and cleaning duties. The employing family had the power to deport these nannys as thier visa was dependent of that work. This also means that the nannys (who often came to support there families financialy overseas) wouldnt be able to leave to visit homw without the empoying familys permittion and financial backing. this would allow terrible people to abuse nannys and they did not have the modibilty to resist. we had a nanny at the time as both my parents had to work full time and childcare was not as casualy accessible as in australia. I remember one time she took me to the building she lived and it was just like the labour camps in this video but there were women and children too- likely children of the workers. Videos like this need to be made.
Yes I now live in the UK and grew up in the UAE too!! Not in Dubai but I heavily relate to everything you've said here. I lived there from the ages of 4 to 12.
I’m older, from the U.S., and I remember news stories being done (expose-style) about the “labor camps” there, before the hype of social media. And my subconscious just tucked it away with a “never”. Why would I ever contribute my hard-earned money to visit an artificial place with the culture of the Las Vegas airport, built on and perpetuated by modern day slavery? Not to mention continued pillaging on the African continent. So glad this is being shared, so at least someone isn’t brainwashed by IG hype.
@deeh9563 fyi slavery is when you can not leave your employer. This doesn't relate to Dubai. You can leave, you can be fired and etc. So what you guys are talking here is a complete nonsense.
I'm sudanese-palestinian, I escaped sudan with my family in may 2023, we got separated from my dad and he's at UAE right now, it disgusts me how a country that was an amusement park to me as a kid is funding the RSF to kill us all like it's a damn business opportunity
Damn bro that's rough... The massacre looks so terrifying that i can see the dead bodies and the pools of blood through google satelites. My condolences to your country, and i hope you for the best
@ghaya2196 I understand what you mean but this comment is actually necessary to some people. You're projecting your own hate. Be more kind and empathetic. 🤍
It's definitely one of those places that you go ONCE unless you're extremely rich and a sycophant psychopath who can ignore other people's suffering. I have a coworker from Bangladesh who used to work with cooks in Dubai in a restaurant, and now he is in the Seattle area. He knows the truth too.
@Iquey There is suffering in every country. By your logic we should all live in a tent in Antarctica. So basically no one should live in the USA. China. South America. Europe... basically everywhere. What are you doing to stop the suffering in your home country?
It genuinly scares me that so many people will never be free simply bc of rich people. I agree with ur statement that it's just north Korea with a gucci belt
you're soooo right it's an issue that people are working and getting paid they should get paid without having to work just like me just because I get paid for free by just existing and breathing as local in the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.
FINALLY someone is talking about it. sudan is suffering the worst famine known to mankind right now because of dubai. my family from sudan had to flee to neighbouring countries. the uae causes so much suffering but its covered with things like dubai chocolate or the show dubai bling
@Vauhtia the RSF militia (which is either a spinoff or the continuation of the infamous Janjaweed from the Darfur genocide), which is currently committing massive crimes against humanity in Al-Fashir and has been starving and mistreating people in areas it controls for years, is funded by the UAE. I’ve heard rumors of South Africa also supporting them but it’s not as proven as the UAE link (which is why Macklemore’s fans pressured him to cancel his Dubai show last year)
@flymontagmusic isnt it the same wtih yemen? I read almost 100k kids died of starvation in yemen, millions are malnourished, yet people only talking about palestine,wonder why
I grew up really poor in Dubai as a Pakistani. The reality is 100 times worse than this video shows. I was born in the UAE in 1999 and lived there for 17 years but could never become a citizen. My dad was a construction worker so I was raised in a squatter settlement built next to the industrial zone until it was bulldozed in 2004. We were relocated to a tiny apartment near Sharjah. Everything my parents earned went towards my education in a American curriculum private school (public schools are only for citizens), where all the kids were clearly much better off than me. I remember seeing my mom and dad surviving off of leftover cheese bread given out by a nearby Pizza Hut, while they packed chicken and chocolates for my school lunch. My dad became a salesman in 2010 so things started to get better and our family started doing things we never did before like celebrating our birthdays and seeing the movies. It felt like heaven but it was short-lived because my dad passed in 2012 at the age of 55. My mom couldn't work because of her health issues so she told me that I needed to get a job, but minors weren't allowed any formal jobs, even part-time, so I had to look for an informal job. I could have made 10 dirhams a day putting up flyers or delivering newspapers, but it wouldn't have been enough to pay for school. I ended up selling my body in order to fund my own education. I lied to my mom and told her I was working two jobs and getting bonuses. My clients were mostly Arab and European men visiting Deira, so I made 100s of dirhams on usual days and 1000s on lucky days. I remember feeling cool because they would sometimes drop me off at school with their nice cars, but it took me a while to realize how messed up that was. I graduated high school a year early and moved to Canada in 2016 with my mom. After she passed in 2020, I went through her old wallet and found a massage card with her face on it and that's when I realized that she used to do the exact same work that I did. I remember being mad at her for not working, but I didn't know that she worked until her body gave out. When she told me the scars on her arms, neck and face were all from silly accidents, I actually believed each and every one of her stories, but looking back I'm just filled with so much anger. It sucks not being able to get proper closure but I try not to think about it most of the time. Life got a lot better since I moved to Toronto and I'm currently in my 3rd year of med school. Still going strong :) EDIT: DANG- u guys can stop blowing up my phone now, but seriously THANK YOU so much for all the kind messages ❤😭. I want to clarify that I am male and that these things can happen to any gender. I still believe in God because seeing so much evil made me want to believe that there has to be some light out there and I'm hoping to be proven right.
Omg...... Be strong stranger. Iam so sorry yet still really proud of you for getting out of the situation. I hope you achieve everything in your life.❤
thye bars on the buses because idnians finda a way to kill 180,000 of then selves a year driving lol its for thier saftey you know they would just jump out of there while its moving if they saw a cow. bffr you dont seee videos online onf indians killing them selves in new and inventive ways?
Unironically that’s how non air conditioned buses are because they get so hot they require open windows. You can see buses this style all over South Asia, I’m not sure about East Asia, but I’ve seen it all over India etc.
In Oman Omani kids go to government school on those buses. Not saying either it okay, but it is more of a norm here. Bars on windows in form of decorative grilles to prevent thieves getting in or children falling out were also norms (ugllly though and too convenient for human traffickers).
🤦🏾♀🤦🏾♀ Lord, have mercy...this child gone come up missin' one of these days visiting these countries and reporting their hidden truths! It's one thing to do it with a group of people, or journalism team that's connected with western organizations that know where you are 24/7 and even then it's dangerous but to be alone, risking it all for the sake of being a RUclipsr...he's playing with fire. I hope his family and friends get involved and knock some sense into him. He should never let anyone take his Passport out of his sight, let alone for an entire night regardless if she's an old trustworthy looking grandma, who can barely walk, smelling of benjay, moth balls, and sippin' lemonade with no teeth!! *_NEVER LET ANYONE TAKE YOUR PASSPORT OUT OF YOUR SIGHT!!!!_*
@A.lixnpriv dystopian is essentially the opposite of utopian. a (usually imagined but can describe a real place to show how awful it truly is) place, country or cosmopolitan area that is extremely bleak, dehumanising and almost unliveable due to the conmstant suffering and constant misery. they're essentially saying that that frame of the video is like that, and moreso because of how it encapsulates the two ends of dubai so perfectly by basically pure chance. google defines it as [relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice. "the dystopian future of a society bereft of reason"] so hopefully one of those definitions is helpful to you :3
The worse part about Dubai or UAE is not even just slavery but the fact they're so greedy they'd go as far as funding Rwandan soldiers to steal gold from Sudan while killing, molesting and torturing women,children and babies. This country is beyond sickening and im glad you exposed how over-rated and depraved it truly is.
I've done a lot of research on this and bro. This is sad asf. Basically slavery going and yh definitely more than 90%. I even know a friend who's family was in this slavery system
People love to spread lies about the UAE mistreating workers, but the truth is the country has strong labor laws that protect everyone. Workers get legal contracts, fixed working hours, paid leave, health insurance, and safe housing. If a company breaks the law, the government can fine, ban, or even shut it down. There are also hotlines and free legal services for workers to report abuse. The UAE built a system to give all people fair rights and dignity, no matter their nationality. And yes, the country follows Islamic rules, like no hugging your partner in public, out of respect for religion and culture - not to control people. I live in the UAE, and honestly, it’s one of the safest and most respectful countries in the world. 🇦🇪
OMG, as a mom, I cringed. I'd either go with my son or... I dunno, pay him not to go. LOL But in all seriousness... knowledge is power and glad this young boy took the time to do this and expose it, hopefully, his generation will see it and many will not follow :-)
100%. The whole Middle East Area is sketchy. Not saying the west is this pure moral society, but the Middle East & African Area is filled with abuses and tragedies. Dubai suddenly stands out from all the rest? With what? Just to add to that, nothing about Dubai online or else is authentic. It's always luxury. It's always targetted towards the richest, and they all are soulless. Dubai isn't a city, it's a product
@Skxzso people work for money. Does that surprise you? Do you not realize livable jobs can be hard to find, and a lot of people can’t just pick and choose?
It’s like Ba Sing Sae if BSS was really loud about worshipping the avatar and being like the avatar but did nothing the avatar said to do and would probably get destroyed by the avatar. Shit country for shitty people to visit
Dude you gave someone your pssport bc they had a "warm, kind energy"??? Please don't ever leave your house again, child. And that woman did NOT have warm or kind energy!
He gave it because he had to if he wanted a room; he wasn't choosing to do so for any reason other than that. Haven't you ever traveled before? That's how it works. All hotels keep your passport until you check out.
Most of Dubai's buildings, including the Burj Khalifa, aren't connected to a municipal sewage system. Instead, steel pipes in the toilets store waste throughout the day and transfer it to trucks for disposal hundreds of kilometers away. The Burj Khalifa alone produces 7 tons of waste daily, and trucks can wait up to 24 hours to unload.
That used to be the case when they first built it, now it's connected to the city's sewer system but it can't keep up during peak demand, so they still unload the doo doo with trucks lol
I grew up in Dubai until I was 12. I went to an Arab private school that my dad's company paid for. I was fortunate enough to have access to education. Even so, I was shocked at the normalized wealth of my classmates. I still remember one of my friends saying her dad had a room where everything was made of gold and that she wanted to show it to me one day. Or how one of my classmate was dropped off the bus and there were deers in her garden. But what messed me up the most was the racism I experienced as a child. Emiratis (at least back then) were very very racist to people who weren't arab or white. The view people with darker skin and immigrants as quite literally subhuman. I remember being followed by some older girls calling me a dirty dog, etc. Meanwhile I am somewhat white-passing (I am mid-eastern Turkish with olive skin but was frequently called slurs against Pakistanis). This type of racism was normal for young Emiratis to voice out loud. Makes you think what goes on in their homes to talk like that so openly. I also got a lot of religious trauma from my religious education there. There is an unwritten rule in Dubai that separates the rich and the labor force. And it is not one drawn out of respect. But to create an illusion of beauty and wealth by hiding all the background. In the Middle East, cultures are a big melting pot. People of all cultures and places have learnt to coexist. And yet the UAE was able to twist that in favor of superficial wealth. I could go on for hours about my experiences growing up there, how it messed me up as a person, but this is a little excerpt I felt drawn to write. Peace and love to everyone around the world. In a world where consumerism and wealth is identity, I think it is good to remind ourselves that we all bleed red.
your story is so similar, it seems not just my school too my mother is indian and my father is a local emarati, despite my father being emarati he told me how he was exploited by managers in work for marrying an indian woman, he retired so early and relied on grandpa's farm for income, the school i went to was a private school and i was heavily bullied for looking indian and having bad arabic accent, especially many made fun of my mother, i had been called names and bullied just for my looks and my mother's nationality, they keep flexing when i didnt have what they have, right now me and my family still live in a rented home owned by an emarati, with my parents barely managing to pay rent and my older sisters working really hard with low salaries to help pay rent. , worse thing is THE MILITARY, i finished military service two years ago, and it was HELL, because of how i got badly abused and harassed there, those rich colonels and lieutenants are the worst, calling me a worker and threatening me so i can do his bidding, only friends i made there were the nice indian chefs who gave me extra portions because i was nice to them. i honestly plan to live away from this country after graduating college, my life as hell here.
I'm so sorry. Living in a society where everyone sees you as worthless, makes it difficult to see your own worth. I also notice this in misogynistic countries as a woman. I live in a country where I never knew the difference between men and women, I could do anything. But after spending time in Italy and China (which are still relatively equal countries), I felt the constant pressure of being "something less". E.g. with a friend group we ran a marathon, I was by far the fastest. But my Italian friend's father was only interested in applauding the speed of the men. Same thing at work, I could work hard and win competitions, but credit and respect went to men. How would it change a person to grow up in an environment like that!
@nocontentjscomments12:25 Why are all the windows of this bus open then? Check 12:35 , in next bus all are closed and you can see the air-conditioning system at the top of the bus. Many doesn't mean all.
i'm proud to say that the dubai hype never got to me, this is so dystopian. thank you so much ben for using your platform to showcase the real issues that are going on around the world that are being sugarcoated through propaganda and the rise of consumeristic social media influencing, it breaks my heart that those people probably thought that they were about to have a much better life there, all to be slaves that maintain the facade of wealth in that place.
Im so happy somebody is actually talking about this. I’m a teen and most my classmates think abt going to Dubai or have already been. It saddens me to think abt how so many people are just living off of slavery
I’m from the Middle East and What people see in this video about Dubai being built on exploited labor is absolutely real. Many of those workers earn only 266-531 usd a month, and after sending home most of their earnings they’re left with barely 80$ for food. A lot of them used to buy meals from my catering company in the Middle East, so I saw their situation firsthand. When I approached the companies employing thousands of these workers to offer proper catering, they told me they would only pay 66$ per worker for a month 3meals per day - which shows how little value they place on these people. Most subcontractors take a huge cut of the workers’ salaries for themselves, making the entire system cheap, inhumane, and deeply exploitative.
This entire video feels so dangerous 😭
Like every time he breathes i feel my heart skip a beat😢
Idk why I feel heartbroken
I’m really young I don’t get what’s dangerous
@DewyGT nah same like i get some parts were dangerous, like his hotel or the club he went to, but what else?
@coffeemug42 nothing dangerous about dubai, he just wants clicks on his unfunny video.
this actually feels like a whole black mirror segment. confiscating the PASSPORT is crazy
USA currently has approx 1,100,000 people living in enslaved conditions.
UAW currently has approx 100,000.
@wlingwood3851pure lies.
@wlingwood3851to prove it .
@flatcat-jwhat part is a lie?
@Art_SignalWhere are the 1 million slaves in America?
They aren't hiding it. The rich travelers just don't give a fuck.
Yes, that’s a really depressing part of it. They must be able to block it out of their view somehow. Or be really stupid
Yeah, that place you slept in was definitely some kind of brothel. No normal hotel will have neon pink lights like that, and the way she immediately shut those doors and took your passport.
if it was a brothel, she would have had girls there for him. she didn't proposition him or anything
bro put the "cameraman never dies" trope to the test
beyond 🤣🤣
I mean, it's genuinely a fact because the simple reason you're seeing the video is because the uploader survived and uploaded.
@fizzinsoda wait this is the first time I actually think about it and it makes total sence (mostly). Sometimes some dude uploads the video after the cameraman disappears, I think it happens with war footage a lot
@fizzinsoda so far… 😅 but if they ever offer him an all expenses paid trip back to Dubai, he should definitely say no!
yaaa truly bad trope.they're literally first few that die for the shot and a rando continues content
"how can slavery exist in the richest country in the world?"
how do you think countries get rich?
It’s not slavery but deception through contracts which is still immoral but not the same thing
That's nonsense to claim so generally. Look at Germany or Japan after WWII, when they had to rebuilt their countries from the ground up to become two of the most richest countries in the world. No slavery. The average workers had it better than anywhere else in the world. Only in recent decades Germany and Japan started to slip...
@mimamo japan did slaved china, korea and southeast asia. japan commited one of the worst crimes ever
@basmaomar1970 But that's not where their modern wealth came from. Japanese technological prowess and free markets created modern japan.
So Finland is full of slaves?
Young man, you didn't even scratch the surface but it would have been extremely dangerous if you had. The accomodations of the workers are truly disgusting and women who are there as housekeepers have terrible sad stories. In the last 15 years most of the stories have been scrubbed off the net.
please do not generalise and use this opportunity to shit on every employer who might house a housekeeper or labour worker. it’s the way of living to have that here. every country works at different levels and there’s different classes. stop acting like people torture them. if anything there are so many organisations and volunteers in place to support and provide them with free help through food, money or clothes.
@4yahelmHi. You're insane for excusing a country exploiting and horribly mistreating their workers with "It's how they do things."
I've personally lived in middle class Qatari, Saudi, and lower class Syrian households. They are better lives than what these people have.
@4yahelmthe fact donations exist to help "the help" speaks volumes..people have done horrible things always, that doesnt make it right...its disgusting how their economy is arranged and im personally going to crap on it daily given the opportunity
@4yahelm you just like to speak for the sake of speaking..
@4ya@4yahelmemployed people have support groups to advocate and give free food, money and clothes? Do you hear yourself?
Not you literally walking through the labour camps holy shit thank god you weren’t caught or anything
I find this comment so interesting. I grew up in dubai and moved away in 2019. We had charity drives at schools and would collect things for the workers and then someone would drop them off at the camps. Sometimes my mom would go there herself and hand out some things and sometimes we came with. It’s so interesting seeing everyone panic over him going there when it wasn’t scary or weird at all just 7 years ago. We just drove right in and chatted with people etc.
handed out food and utilities we definitely weren’t legally allowed to give them lol
@07laein@07laeina tbh I don’t know anything about Dubai, this video was like an introduction.
That’s crazy how normalised it is 😭😭😭😭 I assumed that it was really shady business and the authorities would try kick him out
@yves_lover1 idk if it still is that way so don’t take my word for it but some years back it was. But now sm things have changed and the city is completely unrecognisable also culturally
@yves_lover1The moment he showed up in those labor camps, they didn't immediately connect the dots that he was going to spill the beans to a huge following on a social medium. For all they knew, he was considering working in one of those camps
My friend was air hostess with Emirates Airline. She said it's not uncommon that they fly coffins of dead foreign workers out of Dubai.
Every airline technically can carry bodies in cargo not just Emirates
@AliHashim-t3c You missed the point. What she meant was the abnormally high numbers of bodies that were shipped out. i just checked. There used to be a high number of Nepali, Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi construction workers that died due to unsafe work conditions within UAE. In recent years its gotten better after those South Asian countries applied pressure on UAE to improve work safety conditions.
holy shit...
@ZhiyingHarp one of my friend is now working in Dubai as chef can u pls teel what people are trying to say about dubai in comment pls
Dear God! They actually put dead people in coffins, respectfully, and send them back to their country of origin?! They don't dig mass graves and dump everyone in there like with every Socialist experiment ever!? How dare they respect people's remains!
This feels like im watching someone try desperately to get kidnapped but they just cant get anyone to take them 😭
Seriously
i know right, i mean hes not even a tuff (cant defend him self in case he is getting jumped) or ugly one either and yet he survived the whole ordeal, im so confused right now :D
oh so I'm not the only one going insane because of this video
LOL
He’d be the worst hostage imaginable. So talky, he’d definitely be a perma-gag job
The shot at 12:30 of you eating Dubai chocolate as a bus of workers drops off behind you is the most unintentional symbolic imagery ever this is terrible
lol you think the workers wouldn't be coming to Emirates on their own? mind you Dubai is just a city btw. You think western countries are any different
@dianaaaaaaa087bffr I dont think that Most of them want to be there
@elenavonavalor2087ve you ever even visited Emirates or meet those "forced" workers? Genuinely. Did you interview them or what?
@d@dianaaaaaaa087 they tend to kill themselves you absolute dolt
@dianaaaaaaa087 one of the buildings said labour camps stop trying to defend this pos country
i stayed in dubai for 3 days. walked around the area, the mall, and felt the exact same thing. a souless place built on arrogance, entitlement, money and wealth. i hated it.
I don't know who needs to read this, but don't ever let anyone take your passport when traveling. Some people get trapped and trafficked like that.
Yes! I hate places where it's a custom for every doorman, hotel and facility.
For that, I have a separate ID. I give them the ID and say I don't have my passport with me.
Yes! That was absolutely shocking that he handed it over. So glad he got it back. 😰
@shockwavecghe never got it back I thought?
@Kamea4Star He said he didn’t get it back *until the next day*. Also he wouldn’t have gotten home without it…
If you do, go to your country's embassy and report it and apply for a replacement. It helps if you have a record of all the information on your passport somewhere else like on your phone.
bro you about as smart as a spoon giving your passport like that. your lucky you were recording her. stay safe gng
Yeahh the comment I was looking for,
i saw documentaries of people that was trapped and became a slave in an arabic country because He gave his Passeport to someone and that person did not give it back
@safidyvonintsoa5774he literally says this in the video bruh
They prolly googled him and saw he was NOT the one lol
@safidyvonintsoa5774the taxi drivers comment confirms my fear he fell for a scam
In many countries, the owner of your residence is required to register xpat residents with police within 24 hrs of arival with passport, visa, and possibly return ticket details, provide photocopies or demand receipt..
NEVER EVER LET ANYONE TAKE YOUR PASSPORT. thats how slavery/sex trafficing starts.
I wish those migrant workers learned that before going there
Yeah, I've heard what happens to workers from India/Africa that go to Dubai and hand over their passports... not gonna lie, as soon as she asked for that, I would be out of there. Not that its ever safe for me to go to Dubai...
I saw another comment say the same thing but how does it start from that? Thanks in advance!
Hotels all over the world ask to take your passport. I have always successfully declined, sometimes after some back and forth. Only one place turned me away completely - a scooter rental in Phuket.
Hell, even in a better scenario that’s an easy way to have your identity stolen
12:28 A tourist consuming Dubai chocolate while forced laborers watch in the background represents the UAE shockingly well.
Please make sure you don't go back there again. You are 100% a marked person to them. People exposing them have died in the past.
@Phamberry.no they are quite serious. They probably have futwas on him.
@PhamberryNot a joke tho.. people really did die to them..
@Phamberryhe's right tho
Wtf 😭😭
@Phamberryit's not funny, it's a sad reality
the whole place is giving airport
That is a perfect description! 👌
Yea, a duty free city. Height of consumerism.
factsss
@01125-dDubai shill bots in the comments lmao
@01125-dDubai propaganda
"Dubai is like North Korea with a Gucci belt" is a pretty dope summary
It's like right here in the usa. On farms, in construction works...
In what world? Take ur ass to North Korea then 😂
Dangerous thinking
💯 perfect
Yet worse
Genuinely how did u not get kidnapped
He didn't post the video while in Dubai. Also he left before posting it, outside of the UAE you're generally safe. He probably recorded with secret cameras otherwise he'd have been reported to the police by locals for recording. If he returns though he's guaranteed to be detained the whichever airport he lands at.
He wasn't a woman
maybe because its actually safe!!!
@FatmaEmadi2023are we being fr rn?
@mrcnwk for reeeaaaal, no woman would've gotten their passport back for sure.
do not let anyone take your passport like that ms bonita saw you were recording so that's the only way u could get it back
12:20 Seeing some dude eating Dubai chocolate while migrant labor workers are being dropped off in the background feels so dystopian
Okay bro whatever u wanna say
@Khalid.s "Oceania has never been at war with Eastasia"
@SilksongGuardFly 1984 reference….
@Khalid.s
naw bro ir doesnt feel dystopian it IS dystopian
Are you saying that Andrew Tate’s favorite place has a dark underbelly of human exploitation? Say it ain’t so.
ah yes, my favorite country Dubai.
@moof1232 you understood the point
Ain’t he hiding in romania
To be fair, he's an idiot that only cares about his outward appearance, and pretending to be the epitome of masculine.
He's a himbo jock from hell, but not as endearing, nor as surprisingly intelligent as the cartoon stereotype of a himbo.
.... every moral person would boycott Dubai. Like its such a no brainer.
bro has the survival instincts of a spoon
Nah it would be more akin to a boulder because at least a spoon can potentially move out of danger from external forces 🙏😭
@user-hv4we1yn1mr/ woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
@user-hv4we1yn1m yes, yes I do 🙂
@user-hv4we1yn1m so??
Or the survival instincts of a lobotomised sunfish
Not only do they have slaves, they actively fund and support a genocide in Sudan in exchange for blood gold
Somehow almost as bad as Amazon
Oh and they also like payed Isreal millions even tho they said they “support” Palestine and there’s many secrets about the president but I can’t say since I would probably get killed
That part!
It's so obvious that their gold isn't theirs. Their land barely has any and the gold IS BRIGHT YELLOW literally derives from north east Africa (SUDAN). BLOOD GOLD FR. Families are dying it's so sad. They not only steal the gold and murder but they also steal the designs of ethnic Sudanese jewellery and clothes.
@_02xsthey're beyond evil and corrupt.
Crazy plot armor on this guy
Yeah LOL!. Thank God he is safe!.
he kinda looks like the actor for live action Luffy so
@iveedoodleI, too, confused him for Iñaki Godoy
I'd say it's the white guy + camera = influencer effect.
its God protecting him
Bro said I wonder if Benita wanna come hang out like yo Benita I gotta blunt 😭😭😭
The scene of you unwrapping a dubai chocolate bar while a bus pulled up behind you to drop off camp workers was so incredibly dystopian
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@emmmiliee_ilyI didn’t know someone else commented it until I scrolled through the comments 😢😢😢
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A single moment or photo doesn’t define the UAE. Dubai is one of the safest, strongest, and fastest-growing cities in the world, giving millions of expats real opportunities to earn, learn, and succeed. Your dramatized view of a bus and workers isn’t reality - it’s just exaggeration. The UAE’s progress and the lives built here speak far louder than your internet commentary.
@aaljaberi اول مره اعرف في ذباب الكتروني بالانجليزي 😂
benita hotel was like a fucking fallout shelter 💀
wait benita sounds like a nigerian name🤮🤮🤮😭
Fr
dont forget the genocide its funding in congo and sudan
Its a brothel ifykyk
"capsule hotel"
dude if i was your mom i would be losing my mind. what do you mean you flew to dubai alone to stay in some random lady's dirty compound and she took your passport 😭😭😭 i would be calling the embassy lmao
I did the same for Iraq essentially :)
Real! 😭
@Slime-nk7gy where in Iraq did u stay? i've been 4 times and stayed in quite a lot of different hotels, it's not normal lmao
You guys need to chill, Dubai is safe and nothing happened to him obviously 😓
@Luc61992 dubai is RIFE with human trafficking
Dubai looks so BORINNGGG lmao
ok thats just u besing salty lmaoooooooooooo
Bro lowkey. I feel like the only reason you didn’t get trafficked was because Bonita realized you were recording her. Don’t ever let anyone take your passport like that again. Thank god you’re a RUclipsr.
Frrrrr
that's exactly what I thought too, she seemed startled by the recording and did a double take
Seems like a good rule of thumb wherever you go to refuse to give up your personal documents like that…..
I dunno. In many European countries it's a standard that they take your ID (if you're a EU citizen) or passport. You usually get it later the same day or on the next day depending on how late you arrive. It happens because the law requires hotels to report every tourist to authorities. Nowadays they tend to be quicker with the process cause everything is digital but in many places it still takes a while. It's not like sure sign you will get trafficked, just a standard procedure in many countries. Although sometimes they really aren't quick with it all.
@bycz8344no it's not? What are you talking about?!
As a South Asian, I really HATE when people in my community talk about going to Dubai in awe.
Next time you can show them this video
.You realize that companies in their home countries are the ones who employ them, and this explains many horrific stories of workers committing crimes against residents, including the rape of a child. This led to changes in the law in the UAE, such as preventing workers from obtaining security jobs, because a Pakistani policeman raped an Emirati primary school girl. There are many such stories. Many Emirati residents are naturalized citizens from South Asia, but with an Arab culture. The original Arabs there are committed to this. Don't play the victim; go and blame your government and the West.I saw terrible things done by South Asian workers. The UAE doesn't force them; they come with contracts from their home countries, and the UAE pays their home countries so the workers receive a salary. But South Asian companies are corrupt and steal from the workers' wages, giving them only a small amount. The UAE has provided aid to South Asian countries, but as I said, there's no point in giving aid to ungrateful and spiteful people
Same. I never hated any other country than Dubai.
@orbitFlyoni_F2020vu That's a lie. (not the rape thing. Don't know shit about that) I watched an Italian worked for a hotel in dubai in hospitality earning around $400 bucks per month. He ignored the salary because it's a famous hotel and he was there for experience. There's no third party involved on that one. Was threatened by his employer in Dubai that if he doesn't return after his 1-month vacation, his Filipino coworker will have a deduction for their salary. What he did is he didn't go back and paid his coworker money instead for the salary deduction. Nope, it's not our government, its UAE government normalizing slavery. WE DONT NEED YOUR AID. Thank you very much. You can shove that to your throat. We owe you nothing and we never receive shit from your country.
@orbitFlyoni_F2020vudont blow up now abdul
It’s not just slavery, it’s human trafficking
🇸🇩
Queers for Palestine. Socialism in action.
Slavery is a type of human trafficking...
um i’ve lived in dubai my whole life and what
@liv1522 Slavery can involve trafficking, its not same
8:31 the ladies hugging in the background as ben talks about hugging being illegal 💀
i think when its women to women it isnt a big deal(esp the hijab makes a BIG impact too)
yea he is kinda stupid lol no wonder he is an american.🤣🤣
There are many rich people who want to make the whole world like this. Them eating gilded caviar in glass skyscrapers while workers break their backs to scrape by.
Feel like people should be allowed to make it big but also everyone should be afforded a good quality of life. And most importantly the opportunity to improve their life if they want.
Hello
Well RUclips keeps deleting my comment.
Yes, and is why it scares me when I see how much of Qatar's money now flooding into the U.S., cause with money comes influence.
I wish I could tell Trump that not all money is good money, as us on the street level of life already know.
The whole world is like this already. It's just masked, because, like he said, Dubai has the destitute slave laborers and ultra-rich together in one place, but the rest of the world has them separated by having the two groups in different countries.
You are brave af to be saying the stuff you were saying outloud in Dubai. I hope you knew ahead of time how dangerous what you did was. It's not much of a loss, but you absolutely cannot go back to that country
What would happen if he did?
@FrumpetMoofI think we can make conclusions
@FrumpetMoof well you go to jail for giving someone the middle finger. If you are putting the country on blast for hundreds of thousands of people, the punishments are probably quite a bit worse.
@shadoninja You do not goto jail for giving a middle finger, wake up 😂
@FrumpetMoof considering that Saudi arabia literally jailed people for making nagetive reviews (iam not making that up btw look it up)
He exposed UAE infront of millions of people, he is not coming back in one piece.
There's more slaves now than any other time in history. We just don't hear about it
Lol who told you that? Tiktok?
We're all slaves to interest.
@dinneratmamakays The International labor Organization and NPR.
@mac6452 that’s deep
@NewSohi ?
Also I want to warn everyone about Abu Dhabi. They traffic people in tbe airports. The Airport is in on it. If you're a woman, do not go to the toilets alone, especially if you are a foreigner. And do not go to the end toilet stall by the wall. There is a door behind the wall, and halls behind the door. Stay safe please
Bro is on some list right now after this vid
For real
why would u give her ur passport 😭😭😭😭dont do that next time bruh thats very dangerous
yea like wtf😭
He said he didnt get it back the first day and couldnt find her the second day how tf did he board the plane?
@aryanghuman5002he said in the beginning she kept it for a day
It's normal in many countries that you have to supply your passport that they keep a record of.
@JCJW101 For a hotel host though? that doesn't make any sense
I never thought of Dubai as perfect utopia. It always left a bad taste in my mouth and now I know there’s a massive human rights violation going on there.
Lol. The he just made up???!
@keshaponso2034he didnt
The F you mean now? Human Rights where barely a suggestion since for the last years in dubai.
It's been happening for a decade or more. I'm shocked you don't know. You must be young or ignorant
@Enzo-n8u9gI guess I’m ignorant. I know a lot about world events but this bypassed me. My bad
Do you understand that you can't go back to Dubai after making this video, you can't even transit through. They will literally make you one of those slaves because of this video. Be warned!
Bro you better not ever go back to Dubai…jailed immediately
And then chopped up and put in a suitcase
real
Hope he does
probably not lol
He is the one Free man. the Opener of the way
i live in qatar, and the whole gulf relies on these workers. they are sacrificing their livelihood and comfort for their family back at home to have a better life. the only reason i carry cash to this day is to give them a tip. knowing some people genuinely see them as anything but fellow human is absolutely disgusting. we’re all just somebody’s kid. not to mention the current gncde happening in sudan right now which the UAE is funding. life is so unfair
And people still went to see football, it will never stop, this is one of the only things we can influence by not participating
You are aware that they are getting paid for the work they’re doing. It is not slavery because they are getting paid.
@mra-e8wyeah, but not enough to better their existence. And many are not free to leave because their "employer" took their passport away or/and says they have a "debt" they have to pay off, because of the cost of the transportation, visa, accomdation... This is what modern slavery is.
Can't they just go home? IDK how true are those rumors about them being actually forced to work and unable to leave.
@alexmin4752they usually get their passports/ids taken, so they can't board a flight/ship back home
Right now, UAE is backing RSF, the group that is currently commit genocide against Sudanese in Sudan...
They’ve been doing that for several years now, it blew up on twitter yesterday due to all the execution videos appearing after they took a city.
Qatar and UAE also propped up Bukele in El Salvador to launder their dark money via his Crypto initiatives, as well as use MS13 he rounded up for their operations in Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Ukraine/Russia.
These El Salvadorian MS13 members who were supposed to be jailed at CECOT- which Qatar and UAE helped financed- instead get relocated to Socotra which UAE seized and are trained there by Erik Prince’s Academi. Once done they’re deployed to the aforementioned countries to pursue the UAE’s interests.
In the case of Sudan that’s securing control over Gold Mines in Darfur which is where all the Gold in the Gold Souqs of Dubai come from. Darfur Gold is to Dubai was South African De Beers Diamonds are to I s r a el.
I heard about this the other day. Can you go more in depth about this please?
@ohitsbre7535tldr UAE wants gold, sudan has gold, they kill ppl in sudan for gold
@ohitsbre7535 u can search for news articles ab it, but thats the gist of it
@ohitsbre7535they go to great lengths to finance one of the two sides of the sudanese civil war, the RSF. The RSF are genociadal maniac terrorists that control about half the country and are ethnically cleansing the minorites there, which they have been doing for years even before the civil war started, when they were part of the sudanese army in the former regime (so that they are doing it now surprises absolutely nobody). I saw a comment that said they are "like Al Qaeda but without the islamist fundamentalism", so yeah. The other side of the civil war is not great either, but they are more your typical corrupt african dictatorship
Dubai was the absolute worst soulless place I've ever been to, and a place I've never wanted to not visit ever again. And I've been around.
Dude seriously don't ever go back there, they will arrest you immediately for having made this video, not a joke, please take this warning seriously
I don’t think he’ll ever go back lol
I would say he’s pretty lucky they did not confiscate his video equipment for some odd reason. Dude would’ve never left Dubai.
is it that serious?
@jmanly707 If he has money he can probably leave, but yea it's very corrupt in Dubai.
@jmanly707 u have no idea how serious this is, there is 100% no way he can go back , the fact he managed to just fly out with out any problem is a miracle of its own. Ppl really dont know how dangerous it really is down there, if ur rich ur fine but if ur justa random joe like this kid was , there would be extremly high risk they would be inrolled in to slavery.
I really liked the bit where you talked about having the privilege to leave. It opened my eyes as well. Let’s hope that in times to come, such injustice against humanity by humanity stops. I will not be supporting this injustice and won’t be visiting Dubai any time soon.
yeah i still don't care acting like USA doesn't have this either or literally every country ever, Habibi come to dubai!
I agree with what you are saying about it happening in every country however the scale to which it is blatantly happening in Dubai is worrying. If we can try to avoid supporting it openly then surely that is a good thing?
Ive been living in dubai for 13 years now and im not even arab and let me tell you what he is showing and saying is bullshit
@AbdNasib09Are you implying that the multiple buses full of labourers and the poor infrastructure used to house these people he walked us through are all nonsense? Also are you trying to deny the inequalities shown? Maybe you should make your own video to disprove this if you really believe so.
unfortunately, it's only until capitalism ceases to exist that all of these atrocities will finally stop
That whole freaking city feels like an airport lounge at 3 am. You haven’t eaten, barely have any money and your flight just got delayed by 8 hours. Enjoy Dubai
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I'm just mad they're funding genocide in Sudan. Absolute horrendous country.
As much as Dubai feels like home to me since I was raised there, It genuinely makes me so happy to see an influencer making a video abt the actual reality of it. Dubai is nice only if you have money, but growing up and seeing these ppl was genuinely saddening and this is js showing a glimpse of how they live. The way locals treat those ppl in public is fvcking sick.
be fr EVERYWHERE is nice if u have money
@JA07-i4c But there are levels to this niceness, and I would rather be poor in, say, Switzerland than in Dubai. That was what the comment was pointing at.
I saw a town filled with them lots of cafeterias and there was a lot of traffic there not town I mean like a area
Insane u dont respect the place that raised u and made u who u are today
@fragrantcinnamonstick Then stay in ur country as easy as it is
this man is accidentally a whole video journalist
Friendly jordies is a aussie journalist guy
Gonzo journalism in action :D
He did kinda do journalism in college before he dropped out, if he used his skills to do the exact same thing but in a different way
@karlovisttimes8271 Yup, the best kind of journalism imo
While you were grabbing your passport, Bonita saw your phone recording so I'm pretty sure that's the reason you were able to get your Passport back, please do not go to hotels without recording or bringing a printed passport
Edit: The reason why most Air BNB's in Dubai do this is to get a customer to struggle with leaving since most Air BNB's that do this are low quality and charge HIGH price to get your passport back and WILL get you to work in slavery just to pay for getting your passport back.
Not to defend her or anything, but if he booked her from Expedia or Airbnb, they need to be registered, and you can look at others review, which add some kind of security, and flagging unwarranted behaviours.
Why would they steal your passport? Genuinely question bcs I don’t know
@bonbdylan It's in the video. So you can't leave (easily).
@HeyNomo hi green name according to ehinigami syes nice to meet u
Definitely good advice, but I think he would have been ok, he could have just gone to the Canadian consulate, that shit only works on poor people from poor countries that no one gives a fuck about, not a rich person from the first world who's a big deal on the internet.
crazy how dubai chocolate isn't even from dubai
hey guys because this is actually serious and ben is a real one for bringing this to the mainstram. im half desi so i already knew how fucked up dubai is but props to you ben. please dont actually pour salt and acid into 1000 open cuts on ur body
EDIT: love seeing a lot of tyler fans in my reply which i love but this comment isnt about tyler. this is about modern slavery.
THANK U FOR SAYING THIS HELLOOO. im also desi and almost no one actually talks about dubai like THIS 😭!! it genuinely needed to be talked ab so badly.
@elliefvr"ts" means "this shit," not "this." But yeah, its so dystopian to see honestly.
Omg Tyler the creator pfp
WOW IM SO EARLY IM IN 2 hrs
tyler fan spotted!!!
I watched a documentary which basically explained the slavery in Dubai, and how young girls from Africa would go to Dubai because someone would lie to them and tell them they could get a good job there and then their passports would get taken and they won’t be able to return. And they also have apps where you can sell the workers, like actual slaves. And I don’t think they’re actually paid anything if not pennies so they’re literally stranded there while facing abuse and horrible living conditions. I once had a really great teacher who taught me while I was in Nigeria, and the last I heard of him was that he was offered a really nice teaching job in Dubai and moved there with his family. I can only hope the best for him after hearing all this.
Slavery is legal in the Shariah law which they follow
its not that deep i had 3 nannies all of them where filipino and the money they gain in a month in the uae is 10x what they would gain there + they get their own rooms and food everyday so they arent complaining
they get paid around 1000dhs a month + they dont pay rent
@i_love_egypttbot
@salmaramy23 prime raig bait
Dubai is also known for another sx trafficking case about a woman, there theories about it online called “Porta Potty.” And it’s pretty gross, be warned. A girl was trafficked there, her name was Maria Konvluck, and she was found after missing in Dubai after a party, injured with broken limbs and a spine. Many think she was forced to do certain acts, but even admitting to rape in Dubai is illegal, and can result in both people to go to jail. She denied doing so, but genuinely who knows what happened to her??
OHHH??? 😥😥
Wait it’s illegal for the victim to say that they were raped??
She was later found deleted in Thailand 🇹🇭 and her organs gone - saw it on yt not too long ago on one of the crime channels!!
@prue8034I’m not totally 100% of that particular statement but I do know it’s illegal to have sex out of marriage and well since the uae is very misogynistic my guess is that it would be very easy for a man to say they had consensual sex out of marriage which would in turn, jail both. Also positions in power come into play. Also getting pregnant out of wedlock is illegal, abortions are illegal as well so if a rape victim gets pregnant, (not 100% on this) but I’m guessing is that the victim would still have to serve jail time?
Quick edit: I found this statement “According to Amnesty International Gulf researcher Drewery Dyke, the situation is far from uncommon. “Rape victims have been accused of having engaged in illicit sexual relations, while the rape allegations themselves have been left uninvestigated,” he said. “While press reports suggest that this situation has slightly improved, anecdotal accounts indicate that vulnerable women from migrant communities continue to be detained for illicit sexual relations, often being left to languish in jail with their newborn babies.” Also the uae isn’t the only country with this extramarital sex ban
@prue8034 thats fucked up
I can't believe this is still happening. 10 - 15 years ago I heard about this only people were dying left and right because they couldn't even take water breaks and companies were forcing them to work through the hottest hours of the day. The government knew it was happening. They claimed they were doing something about it but clearly not much.
Im an australian who grew up in dubai and the issues of slavery was so evident that even I, a child at the time, could pick up on it. people just pretended it didnt exist or wasnt an issue. Construction workers were the number one most horrificly treated in my mind- the pace in which building and roadwork would be done were insanely fast, where steep deadlines and exessive heat cannot be met with fair working rights.
Also not many people talk about it but the nanny system was terrible too. many working families would hire live in or full time nannys for childcare and cleaning duties. The employing family had the power to deport these nannys as thier visa was dependent of that work. This also means that the nannys (who often came to support there families financialy overseas) wouldnt be able to leave to visit homw without the empoying familys permittion and financial backing. this would allow terrible people to abuse nannys and they did not have the modibilty to resist.
we had a nanny at the time as both my parents had to work full time and childcare was not as casualy accessible as in australia. I remember one time she took me to the building she lived and it was just like the labour camps in this video but there were women and children too- likely children of the workers.
Videos like this need to be made.
Yes I now live in the UK and grew up in the UAE too!! Not in Dubai but I heavily relate to everything you've said here. I lived there from the ages of 4 to 12.
Finding out Singapore is just a smaller Dubai
I’m older, from the U.S., and I remember news stories being done (expose-style) about the “labor camps” there, before the hype of social media. And my subconscious just tucked it away with a “never”. Why would I ever contribute my hard-earned money to visit an artificial place with the culture of the Las Vegas airport, built on and perpetuated by modern day slavery? Not to mention continued pillaging on the African continent. So glad this is being shared, so at least someone isn’t brainwashed by IG hype.
@deeh9563 fyi slavery is when you can not leave your employer. This doesn't relate to Dubai. You can leave, you can be fired and etc. So what you guys are talking here is a complete nonsense.
@JoNate-qc4je How far can you go if they still have your passport???
16:20 bro definitely just got free and was having a little moment
Yesss
Dudes literally in the end of Shawshank redemption
I just assumed he was another tourist.
Eren yeagar
Fav part of the video
I'm sudanese-palestinian, I escaped sudan with my family in may 2023, we got separated from my dad and he's at UAE right now, it disgusts me how a country that was an amusement park to me as a kid is funding the RSF to kill us all like it's a damn business opportunity
Damn bro that's rough... The massacre looks so terrifying that i can see the dead bodies and the pools of blood through google satelites. My condolences to your country, and i hope you for the best
غيرج فيهم خير يرمسون بالزين مب مثلج تتنقمين ع الدوله الي ساعدت بلادج
@ghaya2196 I understand what you mean but this comment is actually necessary to some people. You're projecting your own hate. Be more kind and empathetic. 🤍
Free Sudan 🇸🇩 ❤
I am so sorry about what you experienced. I hope somehow Sudan is saved/freed from all this evil.
step 1 for how to get human trafficed: hand over your passport to the attendant at the back rooms hotel...
Pls dont go back to Dubai. They might detain you for slander.
fr they might actually execute him
They will. He will never leave again. They will find this video.
It's definitely one of those places that you go ONCE unless you're extremely rich and a sycophant psychopath who can ignore other people's suffering. I have a coworker from Bangladesh who used to work with cooks in Dubai in a restaurant, and now he is in the Seattle area. He knows the truth too.
Exactly. Never ever go back.
@Iquey There is suffering in every country. By your logic we should all live in a tent in Antarctica. So basically no one should live in the USA. China. South America. Europe... basically everywhere. What are you doing to stop the suffering in your home country?
It genuinly scares me that so many people will never be free simply bc of rich people. I agree with ur statement that it's just north Korea with a gucci belt
north korea???? now thats a stretch. you CAN get good jobs here, you CAN live comfortably as a foreigner. just pick the right job.
you're soooo right it's an issue that people are working and getting paid they should get paid without having to work just like me just because I get paid for free by just existing and breathing as local in the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.
wdym fpeople will be never free
@tylerglazerboiiben said that why didnt u watch the video
education is important thats what it says
When an American tells you that this place is not pedestrian friendly you know it's BAD
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hes canadian lmfao
“America is bad, it’s the worst”
There I said it for you.
Anyone who says America is not "pedestrian friendly" chose not to live in a city lmao
@Digger-Nicktheres some sidewalks a good 30 minute drive from the biggest city in my state that just end and then its just dirt
That's strange that the rundown hotel confiscated your passport.
FINALLY someone is talking about it. sudan is suffering the worst famine known to mankind right now because of dubai. my family from sudan had to flee to neighbouring countries. the uae causes so much suffering but its covered with things like dubai chocolate or the show dubai bling
Can you explain more? Isn't the war causing it? I have a Sudanese pal and he never mentioned Dubai having a play in it 🤔
@Vauhtia the RSF militia (which is either a spinoff or the continuation of the infamous Janjaweed from the Darfur genocide), which is currently committing massive crimes against humanity in Al-Fashir and has been starving and mistreating people in areas it controls for years, is funded by the UAE. I’ve heard rumors of South Africa also supporting them but it’s not as proven as the UAE link (which is why Macklemore’s fans pressured him to cancel his Dubai show last year)
@flymontagmusicI see, thanks for explaining! Will have to read into this more.
@flymontagmusic okay that's really messed up. why are sahel countries so hellish to live in?
@flymontagmusic isnt it the same wtih yemen? I read almost 100k kids died of starvation in yemen, millions are malnourished, yet people only talking about palestine,wonder why
I grew up really poor in Dubai as a Pakistani. The reality is 100 times worse than this video shows. I was born in the UAE in 1999 and lived there for 17 years but could never become a citizen. My dad was a construction worker so I was raised in a squatter settlement built next to the industrial zone until it was bulldozed in 2004. We were relocated to a tiny apartment near Sharjah. Everything my parents earned went towards my education in a American curriculum private school (public schools are only for citizens), where all the kids were clearly much better off than me. I remember seeing my mom and dad surviving off of leftover cheese bread given out by a nearby Pizza Hut, while they packed chicken and chocolates for my school lunch. My dad became a salesman in 2010 so things started to get better and our family started doing things we never did before like celebrating our birthdays and seeing the movies. It felt like heaven but it was short-lived because my dad passed in 2012 at the age of 55.
My mom couldn't work because of her health issues so she told me that I needed to get a job, but minors weren't allowed any formal jobs, even part-time, so I had to look for an informal job. I could have made 10 dirhams a day putting up flyers or delivering newspapers, but it wouldn't have been enough to pay for school. I ended up selling my body in order to fund my own education. I lied to my mom and told her I was working two jobs and getting bonuses. My clients were mostly Arab and European men visiting Deira, so I made 100s of dirhams on usual days and 1000s on lucky days. I remember feeling cool because they would sometimes drop me off at school with their nice cars, but it took me a while to realize how messed up that was. I graduated high school a year early and moved to Canada in 2016 with my mom. After she passed in 2020, I went through her old wallet and found a massage card with her face on it and that's when I realized that she used to do the exact same work that I did. I remember being mad at her for not working, but I didn't know that she worked until her body gave out. When she told me the scars on her arms, neck and face were all from silly accidents, I actually believed each and every one of her stories, but looking back I'm just filled with so much anger. It sucks not being able to get proper closure but I try not to think about it most of the time. Life got a lot better since I moved to Toronto and I'm currently in my 3rd year of med school. Still going strong :)
EDIT: DANG- u guys can stop blowing up my phone now, but seriously THANK YOU so much for all the kind messages ❤😭. I want to clarify that I am male and that these things can happen to any gender. I still believe in God because seeing so much evil made me want to believe that there has to be some light out there and I'm hoping to be proven right.
Omg...... Be strong stranger. Iam so sorry yet still really proud of you for getting out of the situation. I hope you achieve everything in your life.❤
Damn, may God bless you and succeed in life ma'am 🙏
Wow...what a life journey. Sorry for your losses
You started life on hardmode and made it. Good job. Now you have a story and character. Keep doing good.
And now maybe you are ready to accept the truth.....of how much you hate those you deem beneath you....like dark skinned pple.
The bars on those buses said it all.
thye bars on the buses because idnians finda a way to kill 180,000 of then selves a year driving lol its for thier saftey you know they would just jump out of there while its moving if they saw a cow. bffr you dont seee videos online onf indians killing them selves in new and inventive ways?
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Unironically that’s how non air conditioned buses are because they get so hot they require open windows. You can see buses this style all over South Asia, I’m not sure about East Asia, but I’ve seen it all over India etc.
In Oman Omani kids go to government school on those buses. Not saying either it okay, but it is more of a norm here. Bars on windows in form of decorative grilles to prevent thieves getting in or children falling out were also norms (ugllly though and too convenient for human traffickers).
🤦🏾♀🤦🏾♀ Lord, have mercy...this child gone come up missin' one of these days visiting these countries and reporting their hidden truths! It's one thing to do it with a group of people, or journalism team that's connected with western organizations that know where you are 24/7 and even then it's dangerous but to be alone, risking it all for the sake of being a RUclipsr...he's playing with fire. I hope his family and friends get involved and knock some sense into him. He should never let anyone take his Passport out of his sight, let alone for an entire night regardless if she's an old trustworthy looking grandma, who can barely walk, smelling of benjay, moth balls, and sippin' lemonade with no teeth!! *_NEVER LET ANYONE TAKE YOUR PASSPORT OUT OF YOUR SIGHT!!!!_*
12:33 what a truly dystopian image holy shit
Sorry what does dystopian mean
@A.lixnpriv there is this thing called google
@A.lixnpriv dystopian is essentially the opposite of utopian. a (usually imagined but can describe a real place to show how awful it truly is) place, country or cosmopolitan area that is extremely bleak, dehumanising and almost unliveable due to the conmstant suffering and constant misery. they're essentially saying that that frame of the video is like that, and moreso because of how it encapsulates the two ends of dubai so perfectly by basically pure chance.
google defines it as [relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice. "the dystopian future of a society bereft of reason"] so hopefully one of those definitions is helpful to you :3
@synthesocial thank you so muchh
Do you even know what dystopian means? Don’t just use words you learned on tiktok
The worse part about Dubai or UAE is not even just slavery but the fact they're so greedy they'd go as far as funding Rwandan soldiers to steal gold from Sudan while killing, molesting and torturing women,children and babies. This country is beyond sickening and im glad you exposed how over-rated and depraved it truly is.
This is devastating...
@kayskaht2052 Exactly and almost every 30 mins, lives are endangered.
The UAE is not like that
It is actually a safe place and the UAE actually helped Sudan not steal from them
@dma1433 The UAE may be safe for people living there and tourists but that doesn't excuse how they treat people based off their nationalities.
mfer you have to be insane to go alone, you could've been their new workforce lmao
I’m kinda in awe this video is even on RUclips at all.
@WaterFromOhio I’m more surprised it breached the algorithm. Or that someone this popular did it.
😂 he’s vegan.
Beware the shark whale Individual then , schools of fish
Brandy Melville entrance”😂
16:33 I think 90% are unfortunately
I've done a lot of research on this and bro. This is sad asf. Basically slavery going and yh definitely more than 90%. I even know a friend who's family was in this slavery system
The shittiest place on earth , i worked for 1.5 year in Dubai and its the worst time of my life.
Not the shittiest place on earth tho I can name a 1000 places worse
@cricketislife222 allow the guy bro😭
Shhhhhh
@cricketislife222 no but look up what they do to s## slaves say that is pretty shitty... if you know...yk
@cricketislife222 Well it's a shitty place and is on the shit list
I will never be able to explain the level of hatred i have for this city
Lmao keep on hating ong
@maryanshaiye8249ong twin😭
Same
Keep hating no one wants you here anyways🤍
Omg I thought I was the only one bro😭😭😭
ben, i know you, you the type of guy to die in a horror movie first, but still.
giving her that passport was incredibly dumb.
3:25 HER LOOKING AT THE CAMERA IS KILLING ME 😭😭😭
she sees us 🥹
Right I was like she lookin mighty hard😂😂😂😂
@Femboygooner82 shes stuck there😮💨😮💨😮💨🤮
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In this video is an example of why we need to get some serious authorities in Dubai because human trafficking basically is not OK either a slavery
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It's monarchy, not that easy
You sadly can’t do that because the only authorities there work for the monarchy and they benifit too much from it
@TimothiusRycard That and they're oil money rich so basically "untouchable"
People love to spread lies about the UAE mistreating workers, but the truth is the country has strong labor laws that protect everyone. Workers get legal contracts, fixed working hours, paid leave, health insurance, and safe housing. If a company breaks the law, the government can fine, ban, or even shut it down. There are also hotlines and free legal services for workers to report abuse. The UAE built a system to give all people fair rights and dignity, no matter their nationality. And yes, the country follows Islamic rules, like no hugging your partner in public, out of respect for religion and culture - not to control people. I live in the UAE, and honestly, it’s one of the safest and most respectful countries in the world. 🇦🇪
"Dubai is like North Korea with a gucci belt on"
I have NEVER heard a more accurate description in my LIFE!!
there's nothing accurate about this description whatsoever
Does North Korea enslave people?!
@Anya-b5sit's own people in a sense
@Anya-b5s Just the whole population. Difference is that in Dubai slaves are foreigners.
@Anya-b5s sure it does
WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'BONITA TOOK MY PASSPORT', BUDDY?!
As a mother, I just want to tell you to never ever ever put yourself in that position again.
Ohmygod this, it was so concerning to watch this video
Yes! Even as a teen, seeing Ben like that was insanely scary.
OMG, as a mom, I cringed. I'd either go with my son or... I dunno, pay him not to go. LOL But in all seriousness... knowledge is power and glad this young boy took the time to do this and expose it, hopefully, his generation will see it and many will not follow :-)
No, let him go back. He's really annoying.
@davidthomas-ot4cl L ragebait.
You’re insane for giving that lady your passport. Lmao wtf
Thissss. I'd rather sleep outside than be afraid my identity and trip home is getting stolen
He didn't get it back
@droopypie He said he "didn't get it back *until the next day*"
Africans been knowing this. I'm Kenyan. I have relatives who have worked there. It's hell. Fuck Dubai.
Preach.
@keniagutierrez1463😂 🤣
100%. The whole Middle East Area is sketchy. Not saying the west is this pure moral society, but the Middle East & African Area is filled with abuses and tragedies. Dubai suddenly stands out from all the rest? With what? Just to add to that, nothing about Dubai online or else is authentic. It's always luxury. It's always targetted towards the richest, and they all are soulless. Dubai isn't a city, it's a product
Crazy how Dubai is ‘so bad’ yet your relatives stayed long enough to send money home. Sounds more like success than suffering
@Skxzso people work for money. Does that surprise you? Do you not realize livable jobs can be hard to find, and a lot of people can’t just pick and choose?
Survival instincts of a literal fart 😭
19:22 am I too woke or is that sign actually insane bruh
Nah that's valid, consumerism is actually crazy
@Unemployedterror100%!
no its sooo dystopian. anyone with a brain would agree
youre not too woke thats fucking insane
completely valid reaction bro. what the fuck is that sign 😭😭
why is Dubai just Ba Sing Sae
omg yeahh
It’s like Ba Sing Sae if BSS was really loud about worshipping the avatar and being like the avatar but did nothing the avatar said to do and would probably get destroyed by the avatar.
Shit country for shitty people to visit
There is no war in ba sing sae
Ba sing sae is like heaven compared to this sht.
worse than ba sing se
Dude you gave someone your pssport bc they had a "warm, kind energy"??? Please don't ever leave your house again, child. And that woman did NOT have warm or kind energy!
I think that was sarcasm but yeah he should stay home. He's gonna get himself hurt or worse.
Lol, I'm positive he was being sarcastic about her warm, kind energy 😂 as well as the 'tour' she gave him.
he was 1000000% gonna get trafficked
She smiled even, just not at the camera, just seemed nervous about being filmed tbh
He gave it because he had to if he wanted a room; he wasn't choosing to do so for any reason other than that. Haven't you ever traveled before? That's how it works. All hotels keep your passport until you check out.
Poor guy flew all the way to Dubai to buy Jeffery stars lip gloss.
9:12 the survival skills this man has 😭
He has none you don’t think he doesn’t have security with him lol
@MiturBinEsdertyyo bro you can't even get sarcasm 😂
WHAT survival skills?
Most of Dubai's buildings, including the Burj Khalifa, aren't connected to a municipal sewage system. Instead, steel pipes in the toilets store waste throughout the day and transfer it to trucks for disposal hundreds of kilometers away. The Burj Khalifa alone produces 7 tons of waste daily, and trucks can wait up to 24 hours to unload.
That used to be the case when they first built it, now it's connected to the city's sewer system but it can't keep up during peak demand, so they still unload the doo doo with trucks lol
@Zack.N11 dubai shill 🤣
@eevee9859 most likely a bot. They’ve made 45 comments on this channel, pretty sure all made on this one video alone
dont forget the genocide its funding in congo and sudan
Got money for everything but a sewer
I grew up in Dubai until I was 12. I went to an Arab private school that my dad's company paid for. I was fortunate enough to have access to education. Even so, I was shocked at the normalized wealth of my classmates. I still remember one of my friends saying her dad had a room where everything was made of gold and that she wanted to show it to me one day. Or how one of my classmate was dropped off the bus and there were deers in her garden. But what messed me up the most was the racism I experienced as a child. Emiratis (at least back then) were very very racist to people who weren't arab or white. The view people with darker skin and immigrants as quite literally subhuman. I remember being followed by some older girls calling me a dirty dog, etc. Meanwhile I am somewhat white-passing (I am mid-eastern Turkish with olive skin but was frequently called slurs against Pakistanis). This type of racism was normal for young Emiratis to voice out loud. Makes you think what goes on in their homes to talk like that so openly.
I also got a lot of religious trauma from my religious education there.
There is an unwritten rule in Dubai that separates the rich and the labor force. And it is not one drawn out of respect. But to create an illusion of beauty and wealth by hiding all the background.
In the Middle East, cultures are a big melting pot. People of all cultures and places have learnt to coexist. And yet the UAE was able to twist that in favor of superficial wealth.
I could go on for hours about my experiences growing up there, how it messed me up as a person, but this is a little excerpt I felt drawn to write.
Peace and love to everyone around the world.
In a world where consumerism and wealth is identity, I think it is good to remind ourselves that we all bleed red.
your story is so similar, it seems not just my school too
my mother is indian and my father is a local emarati, despite my father being emarati he told me how he was exploited by managers in work for marrying an indian woman, he retired so early and relied on grandpa's farm for income, the school i went to was a private school and i was heavily bullied for looking indian and having bad arabic accent, especially many made fun of my mother, i had been called names and bullied just for my looks and my mother's nationality, they keep flexing when i didnt have what they have, right now me and my family still live in a rented home owned by an emarati, with my parents barely managing to pay rent and my older sisters working really hard with low salaries to help pay rent.
, worse thing is THE MILITARY, i finished military service two years ago, and it was HELL, because of how i got badly abused and harassed there, those rich colonels and lieutenants are the worst, calling me a worker and threatening me so i can do his bidding, only friends i made there were the nice indian chefs who gave me extra portions because i was nice to them.
i honestly plan to live away from this country after graduating college, my life as hell here.
And I wonder why saudi is hosting a world cup. Why Qatar did, why ARE BAHRAIN, QATAR, SAUDI AND UAE ARE HOSTING F1 RACES TO COVER THE BAD STUFF
What system do they use to separate the rich from the poor?
I'm so sorry. Living in a society where everyone sees you as worthless, makes it difficult to see your own worth.
I also notice this in misogynistic countries as a woman. I live in a country where I never knew the difference between men and women, I could do anything.
But after spending time in Italy and China (which are still relatively equal countries), I felt the constant pressure of being "something less".
E.g. with a friend group we ran a marathon, I was by far the fastest. But my Italian friend's father was only interested in applauding the speed of the men. Same thing at work, I could work hard and win competitions, but credit and respect went to men. How would it change a person to grow up in an environment like that!
i genuinely remember as a kid some arabi girls at a park calling me and then looking and talking to me like i'm some exotic creature that they found
sad that people only pay attention to this when a famous youtuber says it
And look at most of those labor buses. The windows are open, which means the bus doesn't even have a freaking AC at 60°C 🤯
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Shit
@Vesper.Nocturne Jesus loves you
Many have AC or proper ventilation, and Dubai requires safe transport for workers, even in hot weather.
@nocontentjscomments12:25 Why are all the windows of this bus open then? Check 12:35 , in next bus all are closed and you can see the air-conditioning system at the top of the bus. Many doesn't mean all.
i'm proud to say that the dubai hype never got to me, this is so dystopian. thank you so much ben for using your platform to showcase the real issues that are going on around the world that are being sugarcoated through propaganda and the rise of consumeristic social media influencing, it breaks my heart that those people probably thought that they were about to have a much better life there, all to be slaves that maintain the facade of wealth in that place.
Alex g and adrianne lenker mentioned !?!?
@Wolfstonee you got Dubai?
@Simalspides oh damn, I’m stupid I read it as Dubai chocolate
Two of my favorite artists mentioned???
@Wolfstonee oh 😭
Im so happy somebody is actually talking about this. I’m a teen and most my classmates think abt going to Dubai or have already been. It saddens me to think abt how so many people are just living off of slavery
You sharing your opinion right now is a direct result of slavery. You don’t dislike slavery. You just dislike looking at it.
DO NOT GO, especially if you're a young female foreigner. The males will not feel ashamed about sexual harassment or assault on a foreigner.
@alexman378”You participate in society therefore you’re okay with every bad thing that society does” buddy….
@alexman378braindead fucking slop comment try again loser
@alexman378 Why are you commenting on youtube are you a slave owner
I’m from the Middle East and What people see in this video about Dubai being built on exploited labor is absolutely real. Many of those workers earn only 266-531 usd a month, and after sending home most of their earnings they’re left with barely 80$ for food. A lot of them used to buy meals from my catering company in the Middle East, so I saw their situation firsthand. When I approached the companies employing thousands of these workers to offer proper catering, they told me they would only pay 66$ per worker for a month 3meals per day - which shows how little value they place on these people. Most subcontractors take a huge cut of the workers’ salaries for themselves, making the entire system cheap, inhumane, and deeply exploitative.
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