The Melting Pot

An unusual stroke of luck followed by several sarcastic comments and my name came out of a lottery for the appointment of the Official Representative of the college for DIAC (that's Dubai International Academic City- 37 colleges, common functions, student hub and all). My duties thus included representing the college at the meetings, forwarding mails, and basically carrying out small small formal things for the student hub. One such activity was the Winter Week of Welcome, which is basically your everyday fresher party. I was given the task of helping the various sponsors who would be there with their stalls and their marketing strategies.

Dubai, is called the "Melting Pot" of the world, wherein people from all parts of the world (basically, India Pakistan and Philippines, rest are just a minority!!!) meet and work with each other. So we (the representatives) were instructed to be very specific when interacting with various people. In the end as it turned out- every one's the same!!

So the stalls were setup up- free gifts being the main attraction. The students started pouring in- mostly Indians- overjoyed with the free goodies that they were getting. I thought that was just the Indian mentality, but rest assured I was in for a surprise. Some local population came up- they were jumping around, looking at their stuff, comparing colors and finally, asking for more.Then came the European people- full uber cool and jazzy. They wanted different samples, different sizes and more varieties (mind you, this is still the free stuff we are talking about). Phew, it got a bit amusing in the end, when the things stocked out. What a chaos it was! When people were eyeing all those who had the free stuff with actual contempt.

Well, in the end, the whole experience was one to remember. I used to think its just our people who wanted small small things. No, people everywhere want the same things. Laugh at the same things- enjoy the same things, even run after the same free things. So why is everyone trying to be so different! We think the same (almost) believe the same things but even then why are after each others necks! Its actually funny when you read about the stuff that people are fighting over.

Lets be friends, lets be one. Lets run after the same free things.....



Comments

  1. Perhaps you shoud have given this example to Dr. Sujit in Macroeconomics class as a classic case of "Globalization" ;-)

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  2. hehe....ironically, I did!!

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