RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116221646008456537
I have mixed feelings about this. I spent 20 years living in Vietnam, not photographing the things I was prohibited from photographing.
Because I was visitor. It wasn't my country, and I was allowed to live there under the forbearance of the government. So, you know, I obeyed their laws.
Dubai isn't a democracy. Your rights are whatever the government says they are. If that offends you, go home.
And yet I can understand that people living expat lives come to believe the rules don't apply to them. I saw it often, Westerners who believed themselves to be above the laws of the country that was hosting them.
And with smart phones it is very easy to think that because you can take a picture of anything, you should and have a right to.
But you don't.
@Remittancegirl I have seen it all my life traveling. I do the chameleon thing. Most seem to morph into the mythic creatures they can't be at home.
Entitlement.
@knowprose @Remittancegirl Oh my, I could spend hours ranting about expats in China ruining things for me (also an expat for the record). There was the English lady (though she identified as Scot because she lived there for two years) who *unironically* said things like "why are they not letting me to the head of the ticket line, can they not see I'm a foreigner?!"
And the extreme whining that starts when consequences strike!
@ZDL You just know how many times I saw similar things.
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