States like Saudi Arabia and Dubai have unjust societies and failed cultures. Anyone who is fine with their society being a slave state (which Dubai is, for ma

States like Saudi Arabia and Dubai have unjust societies and failed cultures. Anyone who is fine with their society being a slave state (which Dubai is, for many "guest workers" from the Third World, often working in construction) and has no problem with the oppression of women should not be running anything. (That doesn't negate the fact that many such people, here and abroad, do end up running the show.) So no, I don't think it's racist. I think that for Dubai to suddenly adopt capitalism is like for tsarist Russia to make a go at communism. This has nothing to do with race; it has to do with culture and readiness to assume responsibility.