{"id":36551,"date":"2020-11-01T10:15:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T06:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/?p=36551"},"modified":"2020-11-01T10:15:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T06:15:15","slug":"uae-car-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/latest\/uae-car-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"A Resident Is Calling Out UAE Car Ads For Stating They Have &#8216;Expat Owners&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like posting a car ad and telling people it&#8217;s &#8216;lady owned&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fahim Al Qasimi is calling out car ads in the UAE after he spotted an ad that read it was owned by an &#8216;expat driver&#8217;&#8230; and he&#8217;s questioning what it means.<\/p>\n<p>In a Tweet posted yesterday; the prominent Emirati advisor asks whether there is an assumption that if you&#8217;re a UAE national driver, your car is less desirable. If you do a quick check on local websites advertising cars, there is a similar pattern, a low-key racism where car sellers suggest certain nationalities are preferred previous car owners.<\/p>\n<h2>Sounding genuinely perplexed, Al Qasimi asks, &#8220;Should I add \u201chalf national half expat driver\u201d when I sell my car?&#8221;<\/h2>\n<div style='clear:both;'><\/div>\n<p><!--infeed--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I mean this with no disrespect or malice, but I am generally fascinated by it. Why do cars ads state \u201cExpat driver\u201d? Is there an assumption around a \u201cUAE National driver\u201d that we want to avoid? Should I add \u201chalf national half expat driver\u201d when I sell my car? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JZaBIXSmnm\">pic.twitter.com\/JZaBIXSmnm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fahim Al Qasimi (@fahimaq) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fahimaq\/status\/1322728563288739840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>The internet fed back with a response that suggests, yes, the ads are feeding into stereotypes that certain nationalities maintain cars to a different standard<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Was just looking for a car recently and noticed it myself so I asked the people I met when viewing their cars. Apparently they want to show fit in to the stereotype that they unlike an Asian ( Arabs and southeast Asians) didn\u2019t overly abuse and maintained their car well.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yaseen (@MYaseenfarooqui) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MYaseenfarooqui\/status\/1322768234265878530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>It&#8217;s not the first time people have spotted racist undertones in posts like this one<\/h2>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MicroMira\/status\/1322767900122533889?s=20<\/p>\n<h2>The internet agrees there&#8217;s a pattern<\/h2>\n<p>You&#8217;ll regularly spot ads that read, &#8216;expat owned&#8217;. And as Al Qasimi points out, is there something undesirable about being a UAE driver? This is casual racism that needs to be stamped out.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good point Sheikh Fahim \ud83d\ude0a guess it\u2019s the same as saying it\u2019s lady driven here in the west.. not sure<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Seeker of Truth (@Utopianluvr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Utopianluvr\/status\/1322728997868892160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s like posting a car ad and telling people it&#8217;s &#8216;lady owned&#8217;&#8230; Fahim Al Qasimi is calling out car ads in the UAE after he spotted an ad that read it was owned by an &#8216;expat driver&#8217;&#8230; and he&#8217;s questioning what it means. 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