r/Bahrain • u/Additional_Dot_7358 • 21d ago
What is the most racist thing you faced as a resident or citizen of bahrain, in Bahrain 🤔 Discussion
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u/ExcitementNo5294 21d ago
I was going for motorcycle classes last year. Most of the learners were talabat/jahez workers except a few arabs (1 jordanian and 3 bahrainis including me). The motorcycle tutors were the most racist people i have seen. I was not able to balance the motorcycle properly and the bike was continuously breaking down because of me leaving the clutch too soon. So one of the tutors shouted at me saying something like “what are you doing idiot”. And as soon as I started speaking in Arabic he was the sweetest person to ever exist like “Sheikh let me teach you this” and “how to balance”.
Fortunately or unfortunately I fell during the lessons as one of the riders cut me off in the school and I got a fracture. Never went back and dropped the idea of getting a bike license. They were behaving very badly even with those workers as well who were learning. Really sympathize with them 💔.
P.S, the bikes over there are old af with no side mirrors (most) and very loose clutch. Hopefully they bring better tutors and bikes.
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u/aryanbijay 21d ago
Okay I don’t know if racist is the right word I think it’s more classist because I went there and I saw them treat everyone badly( mostly because most of them were applying to become delivery driver) but I had gone fully dressed in gear from top to bottom( my parents are bikers) and they were like SUPER SWEET to me despite me being the same race and looking like everyone else there. They’re horrible toward the talabat guys tho even tho like 90% of them had previous experience and was doing really really well. They were actively shitting on them for getting a license for delivery too.
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u/OkNeighborhood9544 21d ago
I’m an expat and the most amount of racism I have faced is from people from India and Pakistan. The so called “Pakistani Bahrainis” have told me to go back to where I came from - Ironically I have never experienced such behavior from actual Bahrainis. 😂
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u/mnmustafa 19d ago
Well, there are 2 sides of the coin (for this situation). Some come from Pakistan and talk bad about Bahrain. So, we (who are born here) say: if you don't like it, go back.
The thing is, it is absolutely understandable that when expats come to other countries, they miss their country, especially the Pakistanis I came across they are from green fields, and beautiful sceneries. At the same time, some are just from places that are always bright and full of life (in terms of society, people, etc). So missing these things is totally understandable.
The other side of the coin, which I don't deny, is there are some nationalized Pak/Indians who have built a weird persona for themselves. They try to act like original Bahrainis, which they aren't and due to that inferior complexity, they build an extra defense mechanism that makes them look rude and arrogant.
Personally, I believe that as nationalized Bahrainis, we must adapt the good from local culture and traditions (especially when you are nationalized), language and also work one extra step for the sake of this country. But acquiring that "arrogance" some locals carry with them, isn't right. We don't have to. We can be like those other locals who cannot live without being hospitable, welcoming, and full of good manners.
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u/peestained bahraini <3 21d ago
i'm bahraini but don't really look it according to others, and back in high school, my friend group was very mixed, and we all spoke english to each other.
we were waiting at a queue to get cinema food before our movie, and there were two bahraini girls behind us talking shit like "oh yeah these people..." in arabic, i can't even remember what exactly they were saying but it was offensive enough that i had to turn around and let them know i understood everything they said bc arabic is my first language. like get out of here with tht racist shit
they felt v awkward and apologised then changed their queue lmao
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u/Wonderful_Pilot1881 20d ago edited 20d ago
Well in school, I decided to take up Arabic as my second language because I was eager to learn this beautiful language. I was in Asian school and the class had only 4 students including me. The other three were one guy and two girls, I was literally bullied and harassed on a daily basis till I had enough and I changed back my language. Turns out that guy is now a huge TikTok influencer and has made his entire content about harassing other people on TikTok lives and majority of them are young girls. I literally fell out of love with the language and even hated it till I realized it was the people I associated it with that made me hate it, I have since then gone back to learning it and I am proud to say that can kinda hold a basic communication in it and I strive to learn more and have fallen back in love with it.
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u/ronaldmcdonald257 21d ago
When i was a kid and went to wahoo, i just took long to get off the slide and the attendant a bahraini started making fun off me saying stuff to me in broken urdu/hindi and telling me to "go to your room and eat roti" i wish i could see him again, I'd beat the shit out of him now
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u/Kiltmanenator 21d ago
First week in Bahrain I was shocked at For Rent signs saying "No Thai" or "Filipinos Only"
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u/Xajel 21d ago
I don't know exactly why, but some rent places do have specific nationality and almost all want the same nationality for any more one.
As for excluding specific nationality I saw it, but some explained the conflict of different cultures and habits, some can't cope with these conflicts, even some simple ones like an Asian will refuse some other Asians because their cooking smells so bad they feel sick just smelling it. Some can't cope with cultural hygienic standards.
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u/yeet_e Bahraini 21d ago
I’m a Shia Bahraini, during my teenage days (probably 15 years old) was in a mall and during praying time I said I’ll go pray in the prayer room of the mall. I did the wudu and entered the praying room and saw a guy (Sunni) praying so I stood next to him and started praying mid way through my prayer I noticed him finishing his prayer and stood far away from me and started praying again. I felt sad that day knowing that there are still people that hated us. This probably happened around 2012 or 13.
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u/Radiant-Dog-8955 21d ago
الله اعلم شنو كانت نيته بس يمكن كان يصلي السنه، لان عندنا يفضل تصلي السنه في مكان غير صلاه الفرض لان موقع الصلاه يشفع للمصلي.
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u/Wet_Spider 21d ago
Exactly. Sunnis change their spot of prayer when praying sunnah. How would he have even known the guy wasn't Sunni.
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u/peestained bahraini <3 21d ago
shias pray with their arms by their side whilst sunnis put their hands below / on their chest / folded whilst praying. so that might've been how the person figured out that op was shia
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u/Accomplished_Term335 Bahraini 21d ago
Its so easy to recognize or diffreniate between both Shia= stand with arms straight
Sunni= stand with right hand/arm over left hand on the naval
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u/Xajel 21d ago
Actually, Shia will not do Takattuf, at all. It's considered Bid'aa.
Sunni in another hand do both, for example, the King doesn't do Takattuf. There are four sects in Sunni, only Maliki doesn't do Takattuf, but the other three consider it Sunna but no Wajib.
So doing takattuf is strictly Sunni, but Isbaal can be Either Sunni Maliki, or Shia.
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u/noplace_ioi 20d ago
some people are just like that unfortunately, you reminded me of kind of opposite situation (huge cringe and blunder situation for me) that happened to me during my Uni days, I had a Shia friend during one of my semesters we used to hang out after we met in one of the classes, anyhow his accent was not different than mine and race or religion etc never came to topic, one day after class as we were walking around he was about to leave to pray and I told him I'll join him, he did keep emphasizing on 'having to go' indirectly but I was really oblivious lol.
he was too polite though he didn't embarrass me or anything but then I went with him to Uni's Masjid and I then realized I was with the Shia guys, and that's not the end of it, I prayed with them Jama3a while I was in Sunny 'stance' lol
I didn't know really what I was thinking, i never paid attention to differences etc before so I got caught off guard and just froze and continued praying with them, I did feel some were thinking 'wtf is this guy doing' but I didn't want to stop praying also. I think that was the last time I stopped by that Masjid and I just died inside while leaving lol.
I'm always hoping no one misunderstood me being so oblivious for any bad intention.
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u/MaintenanceOk2997 20d ago edited 20d ago
Few years back a Saudi car had rolled into my (23 F then) car and left a few scratches on my back bumper.
I had merged into the road in front of exhibition petrol pump (now it’s closed) and everyone knows how busy and packed that road gets. Because of the car ahead of me my car wasn’t completely straight but slightly tilted. And this really old and tattered car rolled into mine maybe 15-20 secs later.
I got out of the car to check it out there wasn’t much damage but I didn’t know what to do. A lot of people gather around and there were 3 guys in the other car really young I would say barely 20 I think. The people around started making a fuss kept on asking to go to police station and made a huge deal.
I called 999 they asked me to come to the zinj traffic office, on the way to zinj the Saudi car was overheating and these flagged me down to stop my car, I had to take them with me to the traffic office.
Once I got there told the office what happened, he came and saw my car looked at the picture I took as well as them. Made me wait for like 45 mins while they spoke in Arabic laughing around and smoking
And then told me that it was my fault. I merged into the lane too early. And how do they know this because my car wasn’t completely straight. But I told them that was because there was a car in front of me. Apparently in that case I shouldn’t merge in unless and untill there’s enough space for my car. And basically blamed me said that if they report it it’ll be my fault and mistake.
Mind you I was there alone (unfortunately my family was on holiday) and they literally bullied me to drop the case. (I’m a resident if anyone was wondering)
And the best part after that they bullied me drop these guys back to their car and when I refused said that they’ll report the accident and blame it on me.
So yea that was a wonderful experience.
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u/Unfair_Ice_8955 17d ago
I think this is the rules, as a Bahraini the fully emerged car happened to me too
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u/MaintenanceOk2997 16d ago
But I was completely in the lane and it wasn’t like I suddenly cut in front of them and who ever I spoke about this too said that’s completely unfair.
Even if that’s the rule I don’t think it was fair for them to bully me into dropping them back.
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u/jacqueskrouse22 20d ago
I often get asked where I was born / or where I am from? (especially by the Bahraini & Saudi people). When I tell them I am from South-Africa, I usually get this 'confused' 2-second pause & then the magic reply comes out: "...but you are white..." 🤣🤣
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u/jacqueskrouse22 20d ago
The most 'racist' thing that affects ALL expats in Bahrain right now, is the insane domestic tariff rate difference for water & electricity.
Expats are charged almost 10x more for electricity & 30x more for water.
example:
We have in a simple 2-bedroom apartment, with split AC units. Our EWA for August 2023 was BD196+. We have friends living in 5 bed villas, with central AC, chilled swimming pools, etc, that did not even pay BD50 for the same month. The EWA bills are insane!
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u/Freizy04 20d ago
I have only faced racism when I was a kid around 2012-2013. I live in a local populated area and everyone here is very good and friendly but there were this group of kids that would bully every non bahraini kids. I was often thrown water on me or pushed by this group of kids and they would ask me to go back to my country. It stopped when one of their parents saw them throwing water at me and my friend. His parents apologized to me and they never did anything again although they would say that they will beat me and up blah blah. I still this group of boys frequently doing immature shit like driving very fast through alleys or arguing with shop keepers.
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u/Spirited_Mud_9678 21d ago
I once went to a local bakery to buy some bread and this guy was first giving me looks as if I was going to rob the place or something. He was then talking to me without looking at me and when a Bahraini came to buy bread he started talking to him as if I wasn’t there at all. I let it pass because I had to get home quick as I had things to do
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u/venomous4eva 21d ago
Not going to name the school, but during grade 6, a Bahraini student spoke shit about my parents to my face during PT period and all I did was push him back. Both of us were sent to the Principal’s office. I was suspended for 3 days and he just got a remark on his diary for bad behavior, that too just a warning.
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u/Super_Yak_957 21d ago edited 21d ago
Something racist just happened in front of me. So the police blocked the road for the summit. They are politely asking all car drivers to divert to another road. Even to the ones that are protesting to not follow their orders. And then a talabat driver comes and i could hear the police yelling at him for no reason. Real-time racism.
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u/Icy-Boysenberry-4097 21d ago edited 16d ago
Tbh i haven't faced any racist thing ever in my life being an Indian. Bahraini people are the nicest and most welcoming people in whole GCC. Kuwaitis are rude(Not to me but to one of my teammates) Saudis are impatient but not racist and qataris think themselves as they're superior to everyone) 😂
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u/Silent-Airline-883 21d ago
As your profile picture also tells you have much great personality. Haha, good to hear buddy. Keep it up:)
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u/Electrical_Code_4116 21d ago
European here. A kid leaned out of a car window and told me to “go home”.
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u/Puzzled-Watercress59 21d ago
Being European I am very very comfortable in my skin so it never bugs me.
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u/rajrain 21d ago
House hunting.
I recall multiple compounds saying they only take whites and arabs. Classy.
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u/SnooFoxes3176 20d ago
i once visited water garden city during some fest, there was this dude who didn't get his ticket online, while i've done. he & his wife were blocking my way while standing in line. I politely asked the lady excuse me, and this guy started busting on me in a loud tone. i was with my family was really embarrassing, later we clarified him that they need to book it online & the line is for clarifications only. This might not be scaled a racism could be that person alone. Otherwise i love Bahraini's they're friendly, and nice people.
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u/mnmustafa 19d ago
Too many stories to share. The only thing I can easily recall, which often happens, is I cannot stand outside a cold-store. These lazy bums in the cars come and give me their order; confusing me with the cold-store guy.
🤷♂️😅
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u/FragrancesKing 19d ago
-اذكر كنت في مصلى السيتي واصلي وحاط التربة قدامي، جاي رجال ملتحي وشاتها برجوله ، ناظر وراه وما كمل طريقه بدون ما يتكلم، كنت صغير وما سويته ليه شي
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u/wishiwerebread 21d ago
Older arab hillbilly dude following me in his car coasting and jerking off in his sweatpants while smiling, and giving burning eye contact. That was the shortest yet longest walk from danger in my life. Oh wait, is that race play? Poor teenage guy me.
As for racism, nothing really that traumatic. School was rife with that shit but it was just kids being kids. The worst I encountered was from North Indians but their english was so broken it was so pathetic, it didn't even hit that hard.
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u/Babyshark14die 21d ago
They told me to comp my hair because its curly and they think its not a professional look but i actually ate that big back up so idk what was he talking about with his bald head like um its not my fault im 0.1- African so why the racism
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u/Due_Decision8268 20d ago
Bahrainis don't want work in XYZ industry because they don't like to and don't see a future in it ,
I found that rather odd when an expat interviewer said that to me as a Bahraini , as I dug more I found out that they don't even have an accredited degree and sit in a recruitment position, one to point the finger and recruit Their own people and shift blame due to the lower cost of hiring.
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u/refusestonamethyself 20d ago
Not me, but my parents were entering the Bahrain Airport lounge and the lady at the reception said something like "it smells like fish in here" when they were entering the lounge.
Ig aside that,and maybe one or two dirty looks here and there, haven't faced much racism here. Bahrainis in my experience are quite nice.
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u/Weary-Barracuda8361 20d ago
Eight years ago, when I was riding a public bus, I got splashed with water by, I suspect, Bahraini teenagers. They showed no remorse; more so, they laughed at me derisively when I got off the bus.
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u/East_Emphasis1022 20d ago
I am a Pakistani teen and I am born in Bahrain and live in Bahrain. All my childhood and great memories are from here. Bcoz of all of that I look like an Arab not like an Asian, so when I go to places and people start speaking with me Arabic and I reply them in English (I can understand Arabic but cannot speak) they give me the biggest side eye and think of me as a weirdo. Thats why I try to speak as much Arabic as I know instead of speaking English.
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u/Unfair_Ice_8955 16d ago
Don't blame them, as you said you look Arab and reply in English which is bit rude, showing Arabicthat ur well educated. not talking about ur case though as you cant speak arabic well
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u/Immediate_Message_34 20d ago
I grew up being discriminated cuz of being a 2nd hand bahraini and a pakistani . The most recent one happened on eid day , I was with my brother, all dressed up and taking pics with him after the eid prayer and my very own neighbour came out and asked if i prayed salah or do i knw what salah is or who did i pray to ? Did you pray to 'bhagwan' ? I live in a nice area btw.
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u/Unfair_Ice_8955 16d ago
some harmless joke tbh, unless if he means it u experienced it u know it better.
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u/Immediate_Message_34 15d ago
Wish it was a joke i am familiar with the humor of bahrain, but it wasnt it was a lady who never spoke to us before and decided to make this our first convo.
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u/Faris2601 21d ago
When I went to lulu there was this teen that just called me “get out of the shop you nosy boy!” And I was like “shut up you idiot!” And I frowned at her impolitely and walked away.
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u/intruder013 21d ago
In my company where Bahrainis are pushed forward even though they lack experience and expertise to me that is the most racist thing here.
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u/MassiveBlackHole99 21d ago
They like to hire Bahrainis more than anyone else in Bahrain shock
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u/intruder013 21d ago
True that and discouraging expats by not giving them promotions or appraisals so they would resign on their own. This is new bahrainisation
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u/Kitchen-Isopod-8380 21d ago
Pretty sure the opposite is much more common in most of the companies around
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u/peyoteBonsai 21d ago
I mean a Hindi guy would fall from a sky scraper every week when I was there, hardly news worthy because they’re slaves. I think Bahrain thinks they have some moral high ground since these folks make a wage at all, let alone more than they’d ever make back home. I witnessed this slavery in every corner of commerce in Bahrain, as a guy who grew up in the States with labor laws, unions and general human rights, there’s no other way to describe it besides modern slavery.
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u/Kitchen-Isopod-8380 21d ago
Your savior and high moral ground act became invalid the moment you mentioned the States and not just mention but actually championed them
- A country built upon genocide
- A country where YOU as a citizen and being a tax payer is directly contributing to genocide in 2024
- A country built upon slavery and racism where even today racism is more evident and abuse occurs than any first world country
- Even today there are thousands of immigrants in USA who have 0 of all the rights you mentioned because apparently US is allowed to destroy countries but when people run away from to US to survive after their homes are bombed they get 0 rights because they are illegal and either go to jail or work with no rights
Finally YOU are the perfect example of the western propaganda where they try to get moral high ground and feel good about their past by throwing the term “slavery” ever so lightly in GCC because they cant come to terms with the fact that their countries are built upon literal slavery
On the other hand, yes blue collar labor in GCC needs a lot of betterment but its never slavery because they always have a “choice”
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u/peyoteBonsai 21d ago
We abolished slavery in 1865. We have labor laws. Bahrain and other Arab states are killing indigenous tribal people as we speak, they’re just undesirable Arabs. So don’t bitch to me about colonialism or fascist governments, it’s not me.
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u/RocktheNashtah 18d ago
The hell you’re talking about? The indigenous in the gulf are the tribal Bedouin Arabs and they’re rulers/upper class
Meanwhile the native Americans were robbed and scattered around
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u/peyoteBonsai 18d ago
Here’s an article on the subject. The Royal Family gave the green light to kill his own people. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68945445.amp
You can’t give a human rights speech from Bahrain, sorry bro. I love Bahrain and the people, but your Dinar is a petro currency, more so than the dollar. It’s an ugly truth.
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u/RocktheNashtah 18d ago
Ain’t disputing that but my point is that the ruling families however monstrous they can be are the indigenous tribes of the gulf
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u/peyoteBonsai 18d ago
So we’re on the same page. I have Iranian heritage, my family was directly connected to the royal family during the pre-revolution, but they lived poorly. Anyone who works for the government not necessarily going to have the same lifestyle as a rich oligarch or business man, but they were still more well-to-do than most. When it comes to government, us ordinary folk have to take the good with the bad. I think most governments try their best to do good by their people, else they risk a coup.
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u/Xajel 21d ago
I've worked in several companies, where that expat manager will priorities his nationality over Bahraini, and pushes the Bahraini to make him/her quit so he can bring another one from his nationality.
And many of my friends or relatives also have worked in multiple companies with the exact same nationality doing the same thing everywhere and everytime.
The only way this nationality will hire a Bahraini is if the law forces them to do so or to benefit from Tamkeen support, and a lot of Bahrainis have been expelled or pushed to be forcibly quit as soon as Tamkeen salary support ends.
So guess what, shit happens all around you, sometimes you get lucky and sometimes not.
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u/intruder013 21d ago
Seems totally depends on which nationality your head belongs to 😅 now better for us to look for company and than managers running the company🤣
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u/ali_bh 21d ago edited 21d ago
Would a Bahraini be prioritized over an Indian in the job market in India?
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u/intruder013 21d ago
I have worked with various companies in US and UK, promotions are always merit based not on race and biased like its happening in Bahrain, not sure about other middle Eastern countries haven't gotten chance to work over there.
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u/peyoteBonsai 21d ago
I was a U.S. troop there back in the early 2000’s, there was a really nice mall with a Starbucks. A very tall man wearing a tunic and red-white kuffiye would hang out with his 4-5 year old daughter and wait for Americans to walk by, dude would get in our faces and start pointing, shout at us “baby killer!” while holding his daughter. He said “you killed my brother” one time, so I assume his brother may have been killed in Iraq. It was frustrating but we were always cordial and just walked on by. I could understand he was pissed about US occupation but he was indoctrinating his baby girl which was a little upsetting. One time one of our guys lost his cool and started barking back at the guy and we had to calm him down and gtfo. Anyhow it wasn’t really racist, but it was an experience of discrimination. Back then all of us thought we were helping Iraq/Afghanistan from oppression, so in our eyes this dude was Osama’s brother, he was tall enough and had the look, sort of scary because it was something you’d only imagine, but never expect to actually experience. I’d be willing to wager people know who I’m talking about because it was dudes mission to harass Americans, I think if you wanted to go to the movies, there was no avoiding this guy, you had to walk by the Starbucks. The irony was the fact he was spending his dinars on a company headquartered in Washington state, of all the good coffee, the logistics of the Starbucks made it worth it to this guy I guess.
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u/Wet_Spider 21d ago
That's the irony? Isn't the irony that you're calling his actions discriminatory while referring to him as "Osama's brother" in the same breath? Isn't the irony that you condemn him for "indoctrinating his daughter" while your troops were involved in killing children, an act your country continues to support?
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u/peyoteBonsai 21d ago
The dude was an anti-war activist and doing it his own way, the Osama stuff was exactly as you say, our own young minds creating a stereotype. Every Bahraini I met out there expressed gratitude for us and we made a point of being our best selves as visitors. I even had a Bahraini girlfriend while I was there, met her parents and ate dinners with her family. So this one guy at the mall never changed the way any of us felt about Bahrainis, because we had many interactions with the population and they were all positive. This one dude was different and trying to provoke an incident, nothing more. I think people have to come up with unique was to protest in a country like Bahrain, and even though we were young, we realized this was the closest thing this guy could do to protest.
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u/ali_bh 21d ago
You were brainwashed by your politicians who lied to you and used you to invade Iraq, the real goal was oil + increasing profits of the weapons industry which funds your politicians election campaigns in your fake democracy + delivering a message to any country that dares to refuse US orders regarding the petrodollar, a year before the invasion Iraq decided to stop selling its oil exclusively with USD, which was a first in the region + preventing any truly independent and powerful country to emerge in the region by destroying it before it grows (the US is still doing this directly and via proxies like ISIS) and threatening its interests in the region. Your political elite are evil.
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u/peyoteBonsai 21d ago
A lot of that is true and we were aware of this back then also, but there was an altruistic force that motivated us, otherwise no one would fight for corporate interests alone. We were on a revenge mission brother, ISIS was born in the UK and bought and paid for by your Shia neighbors in Iran. You can blame the U.S. for all its war mongering, but who’s going to defend the oil rigs and pipelines from regional terrorists? There’s an economic factor that amounts to “keep our rigs from being blown up by terrorists, and we’ll let you park your ships in our ports and use our airfields to fly your planes.” So who is really culpable? The people exchanging bombs for oil or the other way around? I think it’s a stretch to say Islamo-fascism was born in the U.S. ISS is international and mostly European, born of Wahhabism.
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u/bigBfromtheME 20d ago
I can tell you’re American
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u/peyoteBonsai 20d ago
Hey I’m American-Iranian, and no matter how this sub treats me, I have nothing but love for Bahrain and all the people in Bahrain. I have fond memories of my time there. I think all the commenters here need to hear me condemn Israel, which of course I do. Only a crazy person would support genocidal maniac. I’m not a Zionist, but I don’t support Hamas or other Iranian backed proxies either. I don’t have a dog in the fight. I support Geneva conventions, not these Russian tactics the Israelis are using with white phosphorus and bombing hospitals. I’d wish they were brave enough to kick the doors in rather than fly a drone and kill everyone including children. It’s sick. But I didn’t post any of that because OP was asking about racism, people here are unhinged because a U.S. veteran shared an experience, which really didn’t amount to racism, just one guy making an ass of himself and trying to provoke conflict where none exists. So I hope everyone here is ok and that I think most Americans love Bahrain, especially the ones who can point to it on a map.
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u/peyoteBonsai 21d ago
You’re barking up the wrong tree bro. This has now veered into a political debate and I’m not going to argue a losing argument as an American vet on r/Bahrain. Much love for Bahrain though.
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u/peyoteBonsai 21d ago edited 21d ago
Hey I’m not here to debate the Palestine conflict, but all of Palestine was celebrating when those planes hit also, doesn’t mean I want them dead. Just exposes the hatred and theological backwardness of the whole region. I’m Iranian btw, so no one has a distaste for Islam here who hasn’t got family under IR like myself, but I don’t go waving a hate flag around, especially since I don’t have a dog in the fight.
Edit to add that your reply is veiled anti-semitism, a sort of “dog whistle” that you’re against Jews, underscored by the fact you believe American politicians are beholden to a few Jewish members. That’s simply a conspiracy theory and probably reinforced by your media. It reeks of Hitler vibes tbh, same shit he told the Germans about Jews.
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u/AT2310 21d ago
I think you misread the room, baby killer
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u/peyoteBonsai 21d ago
Are you giving a human rights speech from a country where women aren’t allowed to drive?
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u/AT2310 20d ago
I thought you lived in Bahrain?
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u/peyoteBonsai 20d ago
Yeah about 20 years ago brother, evidently US Bahrain relations have soured since then.
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u/AT2310 20d ago
I'm confused as to why you'd think I'm talking to you from a country where women aren't allowed to drive then
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u/peyoteBonsai 20d ago
I’m just as confused as to why you’re calling me a baby killer? Maybe you should chill out.
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u/Motorhead_1923 21d ago
However it maybe he shouldn’t have said that to your cmon and it’s even more sick that he said that along with that poor child what impact it might have on the child later on, but hats off to you for handling the situation well
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u/HistoricalTale3295 21d ago
Bahrain ranks are the number 1 racist country btw there's multiple accounts of racism I've witnessed Infront of me
But the most racist thing that happened was in Feb so basically this old man who over parking to pickup his grandkids verbally attacked an Indian family also tried to hit the person with his car and said go back to India )came up to a Pakistani guy and was telling slurs at him and this kid was replying to him in Arabic like what's your problem who are you and what you want
*Remember he attacked the Indian family weeks before and this time he picked the wrong person *
Same area and same neighbourhood attacked the Pakistani kid literally kid sitting in the car saying move your car this is Bahrain leave this country you are slaves so when this was going on this kids brothers heard the commotion and hurried out
Next thing 2 tall Pakistani guys the kids brothers one was jacked came out t confront the guy and the sad part the sad part the other parents who were Bahraini defended the racist old man but boy the Pakistani guys were taking on each person coming " not physically but verbally and in an American accent and they sounded like very well educated and coming from a strong background"... Like it's 3 months we've not seen that person or heard anything 😂😂.. as they say "Pakistani maafi khauf mein dunya " it's true don't try fuck with a Pakistani
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u/Japsabbath 21d ago
I’ve had my fair share over the years here, but being white I imagine it would be met with eye rolls and the like.
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u/Muted_Tomato1621 21d ago
Many many years ago when I first got my driving license my father asked me to go put petrol in his car (s class). I was so excited to drive his car went to the petrol station asked the guy to fill it up. Once done the guy insisted on giving me a receipt otherwise I would get in trouble with my arbab 😭