The Olympics is something that Qatar is proud to be a part of. With only a population of around 380,000 Qatar does quite well and is particularly known for Shooting, Archery, Horse Riding, Football, Heavy Weight Lifting and Taekwondo.

One question though that I was asked during the parade was, “where are all the women?”. Well there’s one point to mention. You can’t just get ANY woman to parade. They have to qualify as athletes. We do have qualifying athletes too and we’re so proud of them. Particularly Qatar’s best archer.

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I was quite suprised and have no answer to that question. Maybe they were late? Maybe they didn’t want to parade. God knows… I think it’s a stupid move on Qatar’s Olympic Committee’s part. It just perpetuates the stereotype that woman are on the side lines.

No matter who tries to fight it, globalization is an inevitably. You can’t escape. You’re only choice is to either declare you home as an independent state and become ambassador of Ingoramia, or go with the flow.

Qatar makes a huge mistake in the method by which they employ people and allow people to enter the country. There are no incentives to convince the money spending tourists to come and part with their well-earned cash.

It’s kind of funny if you think about it. Qatar’s economy is booming, there is massive growth and development, however I don’t see where all this is going if the government doesn’t make some serious changes.

We’ll all end up millionaires, sitting in our mansions, and have nothing to do with it! I strongly feel that we need to have Qatar divided into independently run Municipalities (there is a very weak version of that going on at the moment) so that various areas can ‘compete’ with each other to improve their region.

Al Khor “mayor” calls up Doha mayor, *RING*, “Dude, have you seen our corniche? It’s freaking awesome!” And so the competition begins! Read the rest of this entry »

We want Tourism… but we don’t want Tourists. That’s Qatar’s national moto it seems. I simply don’t understand what’s going on in the minds of some people. Let’s look at Chinese nationals. Are you a female? Between the age of 20 and 29? You’re a prostitute! No! Don’t even bother trying to argue with me!

That’s the way the government sees it some would say. It just freaking annoys me the way that people think of solutions in this country! Let’s look at this from the beginning. At one point in time, there were a lot of Chinese prositutes. So they came up with the solution highlighted above.

Is it astroke of genious? I doubt it. Some guy just didn’t want to think things through. The amount of frustrated men in Qatar is unbelievable and it’s because they don’t allow women in. I need to elaborate. If you’re from Europe or the US, you can get into Qatar by just arriving at the airport and paying a visa charge there and then, but if you’re from anywhere else it’s hard… in most cases it’s because the visa official just didn’t feel like allowing someone in and it’s THAT sort of bias which annoys me. If everything if fine, it’s not up to them to place personal feelings into whether they ‘think’ someone looks good enough to allow in.

There are a few points that I want to highlight. Read the rest of this entry »