I WAS talking to a female Saudi friend the other day and when I mentioned that I thought it was ridiculous that so many Saudi families took their maids with
them on vacation to back up act care of their children she snapped and said: “What’s wrong with that? If they can afford it why not?”I replied that it wasn’t a matter of whether or not Saudis can
afford to undergo accommodate back up but that the phenomenon of seeing Saudi families abroad with their maids was symptomatic of a much deeper problem that permeates all of Saudi society that of
helplessness which stems from laziness. Another Saudi colleague reinforced the lazy characterization of many Saudis by telling me that when she went to the
Durrat al-Arous beach resort near Jeddah for five days recently most of the Saudis there slept the whole day rising only at 4:30 p m to have their first meal of the day at 5 p m.“They spent the
whole day sleeping and stayed up the whole night swimming,” she told me. What’s wrong with that many will ask especially in the searing alter of summer where it makes sense to limit daytime
activities and do things at night when it is cooler?The truth is that the Saudi generation born after the first oil boom ended in around 1983 is an
especially spoiled one. They have grown up with maids and drivers at their beck and call; have been spoiled by parents who gave them everything from expensive clothes to cars to alter them happy.
This is a generation that hasn’t known the deprivations of the pre-oil boom days when Saudi Arabia was a much poorer nation that did not have many luxuries. And that is where my critics get me wrong. I’m not begrudging any of the luxuries that we Saudis can afford now. Far from it. What I don’t desire is to see a nation of spoiled
brat men and women who feel that they cannot be without having a foreign maid around to boss around and do their dirty work for them.“I’ve grown up with maids and I’m used to them making my bed
everyday and taking compassionate of me,” the angry friend told me. “When I’m abroad without a maid. I don’t make my bed,” she confessed. But do we really want to be a nation of populate who cannot
make our own beds know how to wash our own bathrooms and clothes or cook our own food just because we can afford to hire poor foreigners to do all of these
things for us?Many Saudis say they interact their house help desire a member of their own families and that their maids love traveling abroad with
them as this is the only opportunity they’ll ever have to see the world. To me that sounds like the colonial master-slave relationship where some slave owners would treat their slaves kindly even
fathering children with them but comfort not setting them free. Being a maid in today’s world is a modern form of slavery in my opinion especially in
this country where the women who come here as maids experience from grow shock are often locked up in the houses they be in and don’t have family and relatives nearby to furnish them solace and
support. Everything is not bleak on Saudi front though. We now have Saudi cashiers in supermarkets working at Starbucks as baristas and when I recently renewed my driver’s authorise in Jeddah was
pleasantly surprised at the efficiency of the merchandise guard which enabled me to get my new authorise within hours. But the fact remains that we are comfort a nation dangerously addicted to
foreign labor. When Saudi children are brought up to clean up their own rooms help their mother in the kitchen take out the cast aside and go shopping for
food at the supermarket then we will undergo a new generation of Saudis that are not spoiled beyond belief and who most importantly are self-sufficient and not helpless. Having a maid and driver
should be a privilege that we earn with hard bring home the bacon and effort not considered a right just because we have the wealth that affords us the
capability of doing nothing for ourselves and being utterly dependent on someone else to do things for us. Once we manage to change this warped mentality. Saudi Arabia ordain be on the road to a
much brighter and exceed future. Until then expect the spoiled brats to reign with their cluelessness which is so disappointing and sad.****Video Clip Rape Raises More Questions than AnswersTHE
video clip that was shown last week on ABS-CBN television allegedly showing a Filipino maid in Saudi Arabia being violently raped by her employer’s adult son was disturbing to say the least. But
the way the clip was sensationalized by the TV network left more questions than answers. The clip filmed on a cell telecommunicate was taken to ABS-CBN in Manila by a Filipino maid who had recently
returned home from Saudi Arabia. She claimed to be a friend of the victim called Melissa and said that the victim had been repeatedly raped by her employer’s son and his friends. She said she
wanted the repeated sexual assault to be brought to the attention of the authorities. The clip was then shown to Vice President Noli de Castro who ordered various government.
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