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• 1. avi | December 3rd, 2009 at 9:03 pm

  I have an idea peace with Israel!!!It may defuse a lot of the hate and propaganda!

• 2. Doc1559 | December 3rd, 2009 at 9:50 pm

  Leb attitudes are influenced by the culture of racism that surrounds us (Lebanese are racist people in general and this blog is here to support my words) lets not 4get our israeli enemy the biggest racist country on planet earth.. ekhh we’re out of luck !!

  Most Lebanese are what they are : RACIST PEOPLE WITH ALOT OF HATRED IN THEIR HEARTS.

  Responsibilty : do not make excuses or blame others for our behaviours. We are at fault and we must change, for example, we need to stop calling black people ” 3bid”.. chi bi 7azin..

  We must accept totla responsibility for our actions and work 2gether to get solve our issues.

  Demanding perfection of ourselves is unrealistic (semi3 ya maximus) bcuz no one is perfect, al marounieh mano a7ssan min al sinneh bi chi wel chi3eh mano a7ssan min durze bi chi.. wel abyad mano a7ssan min al assawad bi chi..

  Time to acknowledge our mistakes , learn from them and move on.. we’re all the same..

• 3. N10452 | December 3rd, 2009 at 10:03 pm

  Honestly, the problem started with racism and the neglicence of the Lebanese government, as well as the Embassies from which those workers are from have made things much worse.

  Only the Phillipine banned any of its workers to go to Lebanon lately and doesnt let any of them come back if they ever travel, but nothing is done for the rest.

  Due to the domestic violence and racism, foreign maids out of fear and sometimes revenge are stealing their owners and leaving. While this may seem fair to those who treat them badly, there are many who treat them as equals and in the best ways possible and still get robbed, and i am not talking about exceptions here.

  So the issue is quite a dilemna as good people fear leaving them alone as they might steal the house and leave or throw your baby off the balcony like one did last year, and those who are racist keep them locked up and only make things worse.

  What’s to be done?

  Let the ISF investigate at least one case of those suicide cases and not close it in few minutes and then maybe we can start having educating people.

  I read a report where a case was called suicide even though the maid was clearly killed.

  What a disgrace this country has become …

• 4. Infidel | December 3rd, 2009 at 10:36 pm

  more oxygen for the rest of us

• 5. Darwish | December 4th, 2009 at 12:41 am

  Truly shameful. This is not the first time that I hear about this in the international media and it is another sore point on our reputation as a people.

• 6. kezballah | December 4th, 2009 at 1:18 am

  A lot of Lebanese people are very good people, from all religions and areas you will find GREAT people in Lebanon. But the majority of Lebanese people are not very good people, they are not educated to respect the law and to be honest and to be fair to others.

  Those who will not be very nice employers for a maid are people who think they are better than others just because they are born from a certain religion, they are not trained to respect the rights of other human beings so they will not treat a maid well.

  Or people who think it is Ok to blow up a bus because the enemy also kills innocent civilians, these people are not better than their enemy so it will not be a nice job to work for them.

  Also people who think it is their divine right to have a militia, they are not trained to respect the law so it will not be good to deal with them.

  Religion is a big part of people’s life in Lebanon but it don’t always give them a good example to follow, many times the religious people are corrupt or the religious message is intolerant so the people are not educated with good values.

• 7. Delta | December 4th, 2009 at 6:03 am

  honestly include this in the civilization book and teach those little kids about ethnics differences….

• 8. che | December 4th, 2009 at 8:19 am

  stop bitchin u whores, go back to work!

• 9. Doc1559 | December 4th, 2009 at 8:31 am

  Darwish

  Living up to our bad reputation has become a part of our daily life style,for example our young and educated univ students claim to be so civilized and LEBNENIYEH, but they are yet to let a chance pass by without cursing and humiliating each other over their political affiliation, take the uni election bidab7o ba3ed bissibo ba3ed over it……

  I am so da-mn sick of our Lebanese racist attitiudes and the lowest common denominator mentality of those who are so proud of being the way they are… hayda hinde ri7to tala3 w hayda sirilankeh ahbal w hayda soureh 7mar w hayda abed , kell wa7ad aswad min 3yitlo abed !!!!!

  Shame indeed !!

• 10. Mike | December 4th, 2009 at 8:36 am

  It’s a real problem in the middle east. Ranging from saudi arabia to lebanon and etc..

  Bikafe il libnenye bi2oolo: 3aytoola lal filipeeniye

• 11. Doc1559 | December 4th, 2009 at 9:19 am

  Mike

  lesh what about calling black people 3bid ?? smi3tta min a7ssan ness; lek hal 3bed !! tfuu..

• 12. Mike | December 4th, 2009 at 9:44 am

  w zinje kamen…lol 3andna ras il 3abed taba3 ghandour.

• 13. Delta | December 4th, 2009 at 4:35 pm

  Doc

  I totally agree with your number 8.
  And I also believe that it is mainly the problem of the school system. I never heard about all these problems when I was in school, we never learn how to deal with this kinda issue in school and our parents do not tackle it because they were not educated about it either.

  When you live abroad you learn more and more about multi-culture and the respect of a human being….

  But what do you expect from a nation that does not agree on a history book ?? ? what do you expect from a nation that it takes 6 month after its election to form a government ?

  It is a shame we are 7th world country not 3rd

• 14. Darwish | December 4th, 2009 at 7:33 pm

  Agreed Doc, we have a long way to go to learn about respecting other nationalities and races although different than we are. I wonder how would those lebanese that mistreat others would feel if they were treated the same and discriminated against based on their arab origin abroad? ya3ni, what goes around, comes around!

• 15. Michele | December 4th, 2009 at 9:17 pm

  We are indeed 1 of the most racist people on earth and it really sucks how we treat the other races.
  Throughout the years till today in every company I worked with either in Lebanon or in the gulf I always have to convince the management that we need to invite the Asians to the annual gathering party.

  However if there’s a race I’m really racist against it’s the aounis, can’t help it, I really can’t tolerate stupid n vulgar people!

• 16. Michele | December 4th, 2009 at 9:19 pm

  We are indeed 1 of the most racist people on earth and it really s*cks how we treat the other races.
  Throughout the years till today in every company I worked with either in Lebanon or in the gulf I always have to convince the management that we need to invite the Asians to the annual gathering party.

  However if there’s a race I’m really racist against it’s the aounis, can’t help it, I really can’t tolerate st*upid n vulgar people!

• 17. Doc1559 | December 5th, 2009 at 10:13 am

  Delta 13

  as i said in my 2 :

  Responsibilty : do not make excuses or blame others for our behaviours. We are at fault and we must change,

  We must accept totla responsibility for our actions and work 2gether to get solve our issues.

  khaye al wade3 ktir sa3eb sar, ya real revoluation ya badna nadal ma7alna.. ma fi 7al gher hek.. al balad mish meche 7alu..

• 18. Delta | December 6th, 2009 at 10:55 pm

  Doc

  I totally agree with your 17 fully .
  bass ya doc Kif badna nitfada 3alla hayde il 2mour wnihna soura igmeliyeh lal balad mich 2edrin nousala ?

  It the truth do you agree?

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