I dont mean places that are like ragingly anticommunist (which is most places I think), but they have like appalling social issues. Say like UAE or any of the Gulf states that use slave labor and indentured servitude on a mass scale. Like would you say visiting dubai or doha is morally questionable? A friend is offering to visit Muscat cuz there are cheap flights but I dont know if I should. Or are there ways I can ameliorate my staying there, like maybe giving money to some orgs or something. Idk what do you think

  • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

    Oman is way more attractive to me as a place I'd like to see than the other Gulf states for the fact that (at least at first glance) its known areas actually retained the appearance of a place where people live in instead of being a bourgeois playground with golden skyscrapers and Lamborghini taxis.

    I lived in Italy, and places like Venice, while pretty, have like a 300:1 tourist to local ratio. It's just a large theme-park at this point.