nursedave's Journal: Saudi Arabia

I currently work at a hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. My last day of work there will be Mar. 8, flight home to follow very shortly.

I am *so* glad to be getting out of this shithole. I have never in my life seen such a bunch of ass-scratching, nose-picking, cousin-fucking, no-driving, 12-sawarma-eating, no-logical-thought-process-having, no-working, no-education-having idiots. The place is crawling with stupidity. If all the westerners here were to suddenly leave, not only would the collective IQ of the country drop by 50 points, but everything would stop.

If all the slave labor left (Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis, Sudanese, Iritrians, Filipinos - all treated like shit by the 'good muslims' here), the country could not feed itself, and that's the Gods honest truth (Allah honest truth? Naaaah).

Saudis do not work. With a very substandard education, they want to get out of high school and get a nice job where they can have an office with their name on the door and drink tea all day. With the concept of Wasta - something like patronage, influence, or pull - many of them do get this type of job, and are unable and unwilling to function in it. There is no personal responsibility here (for a Saudi, at least).

This country produces no product, performs no service, and their people have absolutely no skills marketable in the world. They just happen to sit on large oil reserves, which they pay other people to come pull out of the ground. They preach hatred of anything non-muslim in their mosques, in their schools from grade 1, on their television and radio, in displays set up outside of grocers. They are ignorant of the world and the way it works, and prefer to put everything into two camps - us, and them; muslim, and infidel.

So, my attitude sucks, I realize it, and I'm leaving. I wish the rest of the westerners would leave too - just to see this place go back to the Bedouin ways. We should have let Saddam take over and fuck things up for a few years before getting involved.

If you ask me, we're about to start bombing about 1000km too far north....