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Philip DeFranco can I ask you opinion on company vs person in terms of past actions? James Gunn got fired from actions he clearly no longer agrees with that have not necessarily hurt people. Yet Disney the company has made cartoons that are very racist and they are not ever (or least rarely) considered for those actions. I feel Dan Harmon scenario is an extension of this.
Damn. That’s pretty much slavery. She’s under the impression that she “OWNS” her servants. She does work for makeup companies. Should L’Oréal keep her passport.
You are 100% right by saying this is slavery, I’m a Middle Eastern from Bahrain and I’ve seen these problems. Please don’t judge all of us we’re not all monsters. Thankfully things are getting better for workers and there are no more “Force of Stay” in Bahrain, UAE and Oman. I don’t know about Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Please don’t get this the wrong way, Muslims and Arabs are completely different things. Islam forbids these kinds of actions. This is not our culture.
What Lies Beneath The Weave you are spot on. The general consensus in that region (Saudi arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman) is that the servant/maid is almost a legitimate slave that has no right to hold his own passport since he has no right to travel or go anywhere without the permission of the owner of the house he's serving. moreover those servants/maids don't get to have a life of their own, like having a house for example. instead they are bound to their employer and live in his basement or attic all the time eat whatever food he gives them and serve 24/7, hence why this thing in the video is outraged by the thought of them having a day off! it's downright slavery.
If your work situation is so hostile that you're worried about your employees fleeing the country on their day off, you need to majorly change that work situation.
Heplen true like, why would your employees want to run away if they love their job and are treated well??? They’re people they should have the right to keep THEIR passport.
Bubby Brown because usually what they signed up for is not what happens, which is why they would want to run away. Employees don't 'run away' they quit.
They signed up obviously not knowing it would be so terrible that they would later want to flee. Can you imagine? Think of the courage it took that person to leave their home in hopes of a chance at a better life. Now think how bad work conditions would have to be for them to abandon their plight. Empathy is important y’all.
Nobody should be hanging on to ANYBODY'S passport, the one exception being a parent with young children hanging on to theirs. If you are an adult doing this to another adult, you just aren't right. A passport is for personal identification purposes. You are NOT that person. It should be absolutely illegal everywhere for anyone to do that.
It's definitely illegal in the States to have any persons personal I.D. in your possession that is other than your own. Actual jail time/fines, if not both, in my state particularly. (michigan)
So here in Dubai my mom owns a shop and she holds on to the employees' passports because she has to, and it's part of the contract that the employee can't travel until completing 2 years. Recently, my mom gave one of her (Filipino) employees her passport to go back to the Philippines and visit her brother for his apparent wedding, but she never came back. When she checked, she found out the employee had actually gone to Saudi Arabia, probably to work somewhere else without completing her contract. This put my mom in a lot of trouble because she now had one less employee than she needed, not enough time to employ a new one, and 13,000 dollars had gone to waste on the Filipino employee's paperwork.
Darcy Milton It's kinda hard to sue someone after they leave the country. I think we can both agree it's a much better solution to just try and prevent the issue from occurring in the first place.
You people act so high and think your better then others. The phone your using right now, you think the people who made it anit working over time and hate them selfies.
farwq m I don’t really see why that has anything to do with taking someone’s passport away and treating a person as subhuman but whatever. Also you do realize you’re also using a phone when you made this comment so what’s your excuse?!😑🙄
The problem with anything Middle Eastern is that it's stuck in a mentality that worked just fine over 2000 years ago, their entire technological development beyond the point of a certain Muslim priest's instant ban of any study other than the study of the Khoran, is what stunted them entirely. They remained in their time period, were encouraged to ignore their surroundings and other cultures for over 2000 years. I've personally got a friend in Qatar right now, working under a similar agreement, they have practically no rights, if a citizen there ran him over with a car they would not be charged with murder, hospitals can't even serve them as citizen's, they would just be turned away. Defending Middle Eastern culture and mentality is like defending the guy with the whip in his hand and blaming the slave for being whipped and in chains. This isn't 150 B.C, it's 2018 and we really don't need this shit on the globe, nobody does, this is the excuse often used to bomb Iraq, Iran, Algeria, Syria, the list goes on they are ALL Middle Eastern, all highly religious and mostly Muslim. People can deny it as much as they want, but in truth, if they didn't behave like monsters it would be much harder to pin an excuse onto them to be killed for their oil. I don't like it, which is why I strongly believe that they need to have a grand awakening to reality, as soon as possible or they risk ending up like the Star Trek series. You see every country and race, but you don't see Muslims.
If only it was that easy. When you come from a poor country and need to support your family and extended family, sometimes you don't get a choice. This is why so many Filipinos choose to work as servants in Arab countries. I don't agree with it, but they really have limited choices about how to put food on the table.
ChibbyYumi There are always other choices. Those choices may not be the most desirable, but they are there. In my travels I've met a few employers who wanted to do the same and I've always said no, even though the pay/benefits were greater with them than elsewhere. It's always worth making less money and keeping your passport.
Thank you for trying to understand the situation. Kuwait is notorious for abusing their domestic helpers. Filipinos are hardworking people. We do not run away from our responsibilities and are not afraid of hard work. We do, however, run away from abusive employers and Kuwait is just one of the middle Eastern countries that are notorious for abusive employers who beat, starve, and sometimes sexually harassed domestic helpers. I wish my people would not go to Kuwait anymore.
Bo Nasser LOL. It was Sondos Al Qattan who started the drama in the first place by complaining. Stick with what you have signed up for and do not complain!
Bo Nasser lol she didn't sign up to anything, the president did. She clearly does not believe in that agreement as she wants Kuwait to be banned to Filipinos. The main thing here is the nasty entitlement of the Kuwaiti woman. And what refund? Most people don't pay anymore than one month ahead and that is not so much money for a domestic servant. And most people don't pay ahead but after.
I am an Arab and i can tell you that UAE, KSA, are also advocates of this modern type of slavery, any of you that are willing to work somewhere in the middle east read your contracts carefully, even the representatives of big companies in the gulf abuse the law and enslave their workers, I KNOW.
@@Rakaan1994 Yep, I just wish people like you are more widespread. The ones who actually care for their workers and all as well as being aware of the current problems. Unfortunately... This is the reality we live in, but I'm always optimistic that there is still a good number of you who aren't the definition of human degeneracy and cruelty.
Exactly. I wish people would think this way more often when it comes the barbaric practices of a culture when people from these cultures immigrate to the west.
"Culture" cannot be an excuse to treat people as less than human, otherwise we'd still have slaves. The fact that this person wants to know where their employee is 24/7 is disgusting. Also, if you are paying this person, what reason would they have to "run away" without telling you? Hmmmmm?
Drama_Llama_5000 not defending her or her pov but I think what she was implying would be a situation where the worker is paid and then "runs away" with the money without actually doing the work
Pimpasaurus Plum but then you can pay them on weekly basis so the amount they get from you at a time is minimized and pay them at the end of the work week. Holding the people's passports is not right and is a human rights violation.
As a Filipino, thank you for shining a light on this. I have many friends who work overseas and the conditions are horrible. We're not just speaking of physical working conditions but mental abuse. I can go on and on about the sacrifices that Filipinos and other domestic workers make to just provide for their families. This is a topic that needs to be put in the open.
I wish my country's leaders would have the kind of balls that Duterte had when banned workers from migrating to Kuwait. The GCC are very much reliant on human resources from our nations.
I live in kuwait, and I had a previous friend who had a Filipino "servant" who genuinely felt miserable. I could hear his mother screaming at her every single day, she would have tears in her eyes, She missed her sister and home in the Philippines and she couldn't go back because of his mother. One day, she wasn't there anymore and my friend told me that she took her passport and ran away. I hope she has a better life, because that wasn't how any human being should be treated. Middle Eastern people are spoiled because most of them are born into rich families and their parents basically never taught them how to treat other ethnicities(?) like human. I'm not saying all MEs are like this but the majority of the people I have met are this way. This Sondos person is a perfect example of how people treat their workers and it's disgustingly horrifying, but this is the world we live in.
Yurn say what???? That couldnt be farther from the truth. Most of them are rich? Not even close... Only the princes and top positions on companies are rich..... Majority of people you claim to have met does not represent the reality which is that the majority do not hold this view. I think some explanation is required for perspective. In middle eastern countries like Kuwait, Employers need to sponsor employees and pay quite a lot of money to the government each time they hire a foreign worker. You need to pay visa fees, labor, department fees, medical test fees, etc. Then, if you hire through a recruitment agency, there's their fee as well as the travel cost of the new employee to bring them from Philippine to Kuwait in this case. Quite long flight and there costs in the Philippines as well in order for the maid to be allowed to leave the country. On average, t sponsor a maid it will cost about 4000 US dollars when you consider all these things. In some places, there's also an additional security deposit one needs to lodge with the government. This is returned when you cancel the employees visa and all claims have been settled. The deposit is kept to resolve any disputes over compensation. This is excluding things like monthly salary, food, accomedation, medical bills, etc. Which is usually provided by the employer. The salary amount is up to the employer but I believe for housemaids there is a minimum wage rule (I am speaking about UAE, but except something similar for Kuwait) So what she's talking about is.... What if my maid decides to leave the country 3 months after I hire her? How do I recover my expenses? I am not saying I agree with her at all. And she probably spends more on shoes in a week by the looks of her, but I think you need to be aware of how things work there. It doesn't mean she has bought the maid or literally owns her.
@@aliyahya7694 .. I am Natural Blonde... (Baltic "Lithuanian") were natural blondes come from! ... I believe she is a brunette... you can tell from the dark eyes and facial features...
Because they use "abuse" as an excuse, the locals will pay up to the 20k usd to bring a worker into the country, and the only way to insure that the workers will not run away to saty illegally in the country, or do any other illegal activity, is to hold on to their passports (if a worker kills, steals, or stays illegally) whoever brought them in will have to pay the fine or go to jail, and most of these female workers run away and join prostitution Gangs / sell drugs/ or offer others illegal services to make money, so why risk all that happening, and risk loosing your investment and going to jail, just to be "nice" wake up and start living in the real world.
Im from kuwait and sadly shes not a rare case. A lot of people here think very little of servants. This getting huge backlash is good news so those people can see how wrong they are. Hope things change for the better.
In order to Sponsor these employees they they pay a large amount of money for processing and licensing all the legal paperwork. Due to this these employers feel more entitled as having their employee run away is a loss of money for them. So keeping the passports is a way to protect them from losing money on the sponsorship. Also working 6 days a week in normal in many countries. Also in these countries there is a power dynamic and is obvious when they call these employees servants, this is a cultural thing. We simply don't see this much anymore in North America so it's not culturally acceptable here. The only solution is really more job opportunities so people don't HAVE to work as servants to send money back to their families.
Danilo Lovic Islamophobia is a cop out. I'm not afraid of Islam, but as Phil said on the video, culture doesn't excuse shitty behavior toward others and Islam has so many examples of that.
Giving your passport to your employer ?! Who would ever do that apart from in cultures where slavery is still present. Her comments were so awful and I hope brands refuse to do any sponsorships with her going forward.
And I have my kid's passport not because I'm worried that they will run away, but because they can't keep anything safe. I guarantee, if I gave them an important document, they will lose it.
Dark Passenger Westerners have all the control.. They can easily erase her from social media (RU-vid, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram). Who would pay her 20k per ad, when all her accounts won't exist?... WESTERNERS OWN YOU.
Sondos issue, she's a slave master and the way she talks about her 'employee' is that she's a slave. I hope more companies break ties w/ her. If they don't then they are, by proxy, supporting modern slavery.
Not true at all. Employers won’t take your passport if you work in an office space type thing. At least that’s from my experience living here 20 years 🤷♂️
If that woman is so afraid her servant will run away, she should be asking herself what she’s doin wrong that someone wants to leave her employ suddenly and without warning. She shouldn’t have to sequester her staff to get things done. She needs to be forced to do this menial work for a month on the schedule she gives her employees and see how well she does. She’s a young person with money and no brains.
That's what I was thinking, why do your servants need to run away!! Classic out-of-touch rich douche who, since she lives in the Middle East, supports slavery for all who aren't the "elite" like her!!!
What they are talking about is right. I lived in Kuwait for 19 years. Its as fucked up as people say and you know it. We know not everyone is treated badly, and some are actually happy. But they should change the passport law. It's disgusting.
This is the truth of most rich gulf arabs. I've witnessed their mentality when working at an airport. They think they're masters and feel they have a right to treat anyone "below" them as slaves. Just because they've been brought up with a rich comfortable upbringing, they don't realise the hard work and struggles people from poorer backgrounds face. No humanity. This is modern day slavery and their minds need to change.
HVideos Those who are like that, they're horrible, unclassy, money-faced, ignoble people. They don't see the value of a person's work if they think they are lower in status. If all foreign workers leave their countries THEIR ECONOMY WON'T SURVIVE. INGRATES.
I cant believe I am not the only one. Working in Central London as a cashier and barista, these rich pricks would treat me like a butler and one time a woman refused to get up and get her order and just held out her arm across a counter which required me to walk the whole way around.
This happens right across the Middle East. The Middle Eastern countries were the last countries to abolish slavery, Saudi Arabia had LEGAL slavery until the 1960's, Oman until the 1980's, and even today there are millions of black slaves in Islamic countries like Mauritania. Muslims think they have a right to enslave because it is condoned in the Quran.
tubester4567 I don’t know where you got your information from but there is no verse in Quran that condone slavery. Culture and religion are two different things.
@@azhaaralsiyabi9328 I agree, and in this case Arab culture today is rotten. Sometimes i think there is a reason why their countries are destroyed. It is a sad state of affairs. There are times where i see the plight of Palestinians and feel for my Arab brothers, and then i see what happens in Libya, Lebanon, and the gulf countries, i hear the stories of friends and family who have been mistreated due to their race, and my mind becomes clouded with dark thoughts. All I can say is that a culture is made up of its people. It is the actions of the people who define a culture. There may be good people and bad people in the culture. It is our duty as Muslims to enjoin the good, and forbid the bad, but when bad people outnumber the good then the culture is rotten. It is up to the good people to speak up and do something about the bad. Start a movement, say or do something. It is something that is missing in our countries. “Verily, Allah will not change the (good) condition of a people as long as they do not change their state (of goodness) themselves (by committing sins and by being ungrateful and disobedient to Allah)” [al-Ra’d 13:11]. Everything is tradition, but sometimes tradition needs to be challenged. There is a really good quote on tradition, i don't know who said it: "Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire".
I want to thank PhillyD for covering this story. I'm 22, I was born and brought up in Kuwait and I am happy that such an issue is finally been covered by mainstream media. This issue is just the tip of the iceberg. The problem at hand is much bigger than this. It is important to understand the nature and magnitude of this situation first. Another thing you have to understand is that the culture is not the same as western countries. You wonder how can a human be as fickle, deluded as Sondos and not realize what crosses human rights? It's mainly because it has gotten to a stage where violating human rights has become a norm. Although I don't want to generalize, I have to speak about majority of the population of the Kuwaitis. There are obviously good and decent humans everywhere, but the reality is majority of the locals are entitled pricks who are used to getting it their way all the time. Believe or not, but 80-90% of the locals have the same mindset as this crazy lady. Any resistance could lead to a ridiculous outburst such as this. The general attitude of the domestic employers are 'I BOUGHT YOU HERE, SO I OWN YOU NOW. TRY TO DO ANYTHING ELSE AND I WILL FUCKING MAKE YOUR LIFE HELL'. There are alot more 'atrocities' that happen under the veil of being a 'norm'. I hope that all comes to light some day too.
Samar iF yOu dOn'T LiKe iT, gO bAcK Funny it would be your kind of people crying 'OPPRESSION' when simple security policies are enforced on y'all in other countries. I will always appreciate Kuwait for being home to me for so many years, but the manner domestic workers are treated are no less than barbaric. So fuck you
Nah I’d say that the last statement is missing, mostly over here in Kuwait they use the argument “Well we are giving her money otherwise she would be begging and broke in Philippine”
Confiscating somebody's passport is like turning them into a slave basically. And I'm sorry you don't have any right to take their passport just because they come to your country to work. If that happened to anybody in the Arab world in another country that they want to they would have a shit fit.
Shields That argument feels like splitting hairs. Restricting one's travel is essentially confining them, maybe not to a small location, but to that country. Just because someone isn't physically restrained doesn't mean they aren't being controlled.
Ikr, creating a contract with the organization that send the worker should be enough. If the worker ran away, just sue the organization that send him/her to you.
If she is worried that her maid will fly back to the Philippines without informing her, then she might be doing something bad or treating the help badly for her to feel the need to ESCAPE in the first place. Most Filipinos will endure a lot just to be able to provide for their families back home. That’s a fact. So if they are treated fairly by their employers, why would they risk their employment? Also, I know that not all mid-east nationals are this way. I’ve met really good people from when I worked in Dubai. It’s sad whenever a bad apple spoils a good bunch.
Sadly there are many people with such horrible mentality. I think other nations should follow what Duterte did and bring back all workers till they introduce strict laws for the protection of laborers. GCC owes a lot to South East asian migrants who comprise of over 90% of labor work force.
Camilla M. It should baffle me that this kind of mentality still exists, but sadly, it happens quite a lot. And she hasn't even apologized rather further defend her statements. Ugh.
You are 100% right by saying this is slavery, I’m a Middle Eastern from Bahrain and I’ve seen these problems. Please don’t judge all of us we’re not all monsters. Thankfully things are getting better for workers and there are no more “Force of Stay” in Bahrain, UAE and Oman. I don’t know about Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Please don’t get this the wrong way, Muslims and Arabs are completely different things. Islam forbids these kinds of actions. This is not our culture.
nasser alfadhel Thank you for sharing your opinion, it's really nice to hear another side from someone of the culture. evil is an anomaly everywhere, not a normal. The more we have discussions, the more we come together! Know not all Americans think badly towards Muslims and Arabs
Hear the law in Quatar makes you slave. The passport is taken away and some is forced to work long hours with almost no break. The nickname of Qatar is now land of slaves.
I had to stop myself from disliking the video not because I dislike the video but because Sondos Alqattan's statements were such trash that it was automatic. You said it right, how disgusting.
When I was in grade 5 I learned that some countries still think being left handed is wrong. I am left handed, so I said "Well, that sounds stupid." My teacher quickly said, "No! It's another culture, it's not stupid!" And to her I still say, "That is stupid." A whole country believing that shit is gold doesn't magically turn the shit into gold.
Well get enough people thinking it's worth more than gold and it does make it so. How much is a diamond worth? We can make them all we want as much as we print paper money. Well you aren't 'right' handed, must be wrong handed. lol
Darth Star Killer Especially seeing as most people who leave their country to find a better life for family aren’t slacking or being lazy! The most hard working people I have ever come in contact with are Filipino people! And they are always on time, respectful and friendly.
aohige that’s because she’s a kuwaiti, they don’t even know what hard work or poverty means. As a man with a muslim background i stand by the filipino workers.
The fuck religion has to do with this? It's a human rights issue, and it's not her fault. Workers agree to this before they come. If they didn't like it they should find other jobs.
Ayla Cheshir The oil rich Arab states treat minorities like trash. This is a very ingrained institutional racism, like the deep south in the Jim Crow era.
Unfortunatly, she is not the only one who thinks like that, but she is the only one talking openly about it. In Lebanon, for exemple, they have Sri lankans workers who ''serve'' the house EVERYDAY with NO days off. They are the nany, the cook, the full servent who lives in the house like a family member. She speaks lebanese and is forced to go everywhere with the kids. No one seems to think that this is wrong, except those who do not use this service and those like me who live outside the country who is disgusted by this. The middle east has a different way of living since now over 10 years and it is getting worse and worse... no one is saying anything and people accept it as if it is ''normal''... it is a shame! I am just glad my extended family has not gone into this whole idea of a living!
Slayer Riff. Knock it off! That is something you do not EVER wish upon anyone! I don't give a damn about the situation. Shame on you! That is disgusting.
There is something really, really scary about old content/words/jokes being repurposed from a decade ago to today's culture. I don't think what Dan Harmon did was funny, but I just can't see myself getting outraged over humor of an unsuccessful pilot that never aired. Comedy is experimentation for better or worse, and I feel the need to emphasize that people change. I feel like it's a false equivalence to the Me Too movement with how people are throwing James Gunn and Dan Harmon under the bus. People are coming out of the woodwork to ridicule these people over old content, but these people are not anything but people who made some jokes in very poor taste years prior. There is no justice removing these people in my opinion, and I just worry a precedent is being set here.
I think it should also be known that this wasn't just a random find and someone blasted out. Trump supporters intentionally targeted Dan Harmon for his liberal views and twitter presence.
If he had actually abused somebody it would be a different story. People are reacting as if he had actually raped a baby. Similarly to the Count Dakula incident - this is a bad and distasteful joke that has been stripped of context. He wouldn’t think of making such a joke nowadays. He didn’t hurt anyone. He isn’t hurting anyone. Dan Harmon is not a threat. Even though he announced weeks ago that he’d like to retire soon, Harmon’s career will continue to thrive after this.
I don't think you can put the James Gunn and Dan Harmon incident in the same category. Dan had 1 video that explored a joke in poor taste that fizzled and that was it. James had a lot of tweets joking about the issue. And it doesn't matter that it was a Trump supporter who pointed it out. If a Democrat exposes a Republican for tax fraud, any political motivation or ulterior motive doesn't negate the crime that was exposed.
As an Australian expat living and working in Asia I have never ever once been asked to surrender my passport. The general view towards household staff here is that they become part of your family and you have a duty of care to provide for them beyond just salary. It is not completely strange to pay for ad hoc expenses like glasses. You have a duty to care and provide for them. I feel sicken by this story
I can relate to this culture, I am from the middle east. I must tell you that KSA and gulf countries especially Kuwait treat people like slaves. Kuwaiti's can't survive s day with out a servant. Just a month before this they we making fun how people from Sudan are black coloured. I'm glad that is out to the world.
I completely agree that SOME kuwaitis act like that and I am ashamed that a woman from MY country is putting a bad reputation on us. She (sondous) is absolutely disgusting. I myself have a maid but I treat her as a friend and not a servant or a maid.i am absolutely disgusted by some kuwaitis. (I'm a kuwaiti btw)
you barely know a thing about how live in house maid work let alone in one in a different country than the one phill have mentions , your criticism is invalid.
Cooldrop02 who’s in Dubai? That woman is from Kuwait. A different country. And she only represents herself everyone there are giving her a hardtome too no one thinks her statements are normal or ok
green water -- muslims are the biggest slavers in history. When America declared independence from Britain, American merchant ships lost protection(the British paid muslims to not kidnap them) and after a while, Thomas Jefferson created the Navy and Marines to fight Muslim pirates. Now muslims in Libya make north African blacks slaves in modern time. At least Trump is trying to build a wall to prevent Mexicans from being wage slaves to liberal whites.
Taking someones passport to keep them in work sounds like modern slavery to me. why dont they just get a new worker if another one leaves? There is obviously enough of them.
Thomas Hjelme I'm gunna start this off with I don't agree with these people trying to keep people hostage. That being said they don't employ new people because it is extremely common that the employer's pay for their travel expenses. Basically if one wants to leave it's like you threw away that money. Once again I do not agree with this, just filling in info.
lili benavides you also have to pay the agency and visa so you pay around $500 -$1000 to the agency. The common scam is they work a month, collect their salary and dart. Sometimes they'll steal cash, laptop and phones the day they leave. So then you have to pay to replace all the stolen items and then find and pay another agency. Seen it many many times.
It's slavery. No human should be prohibited from leaving as an expat. Taking a passport is ripe for abuse by the "master" who has the servant by their balls with no recourse to escape that abuse. It's disgusting.
Thank you for using your platform to speak about issues of the "Servant" controversy and spreading awareness. It was something i always respected about your work PhillyD!
Sondos probably isn't going to be able to get out of her own way on this controversy about her terrible views. I think because of cultural norms in Kuwait she sees this as acceptable; they have a huge problem with human trafficking problem, especially with foreigners. It isn't exactly rare for wealthy Kuwaitis to treat the people they sponsor like slaves and abuse them. The abuse they endure can be through through verbal threats, beatings, and sexual assault. Sondos probably sees this as a normal way of life, and doesn't understand why people are upset with her statements, as she claims she doesn't treat her "servants" as poorly as some. No one should be treated the way some these foreign workers are.
What you liberal Americans FAIL to understand is that this is the case in EVERY Muslim country.. they use Asian Filipinos ither asians, and even white east Europeans as MODERN SLAVES.. this is the usual thing in the middle East. Those servants are looked on as less human than the Muslims themselves, and they are often mistreated. This is NORMAL in the middle East. Don't be surprised over this everyone knows it it's just you idiots who choose to ignore the reality in front of your ugly dumb faces. This is why I hate Americans.. selective outrage by liberal retards over there.
Freddy BayBay I think the selective outrage here is you focusing your hate on us “liberal Americans” instead of denouncing the horrific treatment these foreign workers face
It is slavery and it's not only Philipinos it's Indians too. Massive numbers of Indians work in middle east and they're treated the same way. It's Slavery. When your employee can't leave on their own free will, it's slavery. You can beat around the bush all you want. IT'S SLAVERY! In India, it's even illegal for a company to ask their employee to sign a 'Bond'. Which means a company can't ask it's employee to be in a service contract with them for a specific amount of time. And even if they do sign them somehow they can leave anytime however they'll have to pay an agreed upon sum of amount to the employer. And here are Middle Eastern employers straight up confiscating passports of their employees and treating them like animals.
It even happens in China. Filipino workers in China get abused too. There was one Filipina who was crippled by their employer. I know that it happens a lot. Filipinos are known as the lesser Asian in Asia.
my mother who is a Filipino worker also stated about the mistreatment of South asian workers too...even some racial issues regarding religion (i dunno why some muslims hate hindus/sikhs). well, this is just slavery with a few extra steps
"that sounds like slavery, that sounds like you think that person is property and you don't want your property getting away" Well, yeah...that's exactly what it is. The "sponsorship program" is indentured servitude. The employer pays for the employee's expenses to move to the country, and then the employee is indebted and needs to work it off, if they can ever work it off as now the accounting for that debt is entirely under the employers purview. For anyone who may be slightly on the fence about this thing, consider for a moment that the whole debt slavery, indentured servant model is a quite popular control mechanism used by sex traffickers... So while your favorite make up shill on IG may not be a sex trafficker, she does appear to be unambiguously morally aligned with sex traffickers... Even a really trendy eye palette can't make that shit a good look.
Thanks for mentioning how this resembles indentured servitude. From reading the story I gathered that she was concerned about having paid for the domestic worker to travel to Kuwait she was concerned about people who would just flee once they got a day off. I kind of got her point because I imagine that does happen and I imagine that could be frustrating to pay for domestic workers to come and have them flake on her. But then you have to think that it would behoove the employer to make their job more enticing to a person so that the worker would want to remain in their employ. But then when you brought up indentured servitude it also weighed heavily on my thoughts. The fact is that there are very little if not any rights for domestic workers and this type of slave trade is inhumane from Western standards. But what I think she really did wrong was sound so cavalier and entitled. Um yeah, your doméstics are human and deserve down time to live.
No, H1B is nothing of the sort. They still have their passports, they are still free to travel, and they are not paying off a debt for the privilege of working over here. They can even swap employers, as one former coworker of mine did (leaving our employer in a pretty big lurch, as it so happens). Being expelled from the country if you lose your sponsor is simply not at all the same thing as being trapped into a job because your employer controls your finances & id. No one is entitled to remain in a country they are not a citizen of, and countries have the right to enforce their borders; to head off THAT 'rebuttal'. Vice versa, no Americans are living & working in India or any other country long term without a visa or acquiring citizenship either.
Totally agree with you. I have been following Sondos Alqattan way back when she only had 10k following on ig but I had to unfollow as soon as I saw that post. Being a Filipino and knowing people personally who’s gone to Kuwait to become servants just made me so angry to see another human speak of another as basically a property. The stories they tell me are surreal. It brakes my heart because they have no choice but to go abroad to work and provide for their families. This is slavery!
mohannad amasha Not allowing them to go home is what makes it slavery. It’s fucked up that the employers hold onto their passports. Employees are at their will when they do decide to travel, and that’s not okay. The ability to travel freely should be a right. Otherwise, it is unlawful imprisonment and forced servitude.
QueenRedRosemary Exactly. I simply can’t understand how people are not able to see the connection between what’s happening in Kuwait and slavery. She compared the workers to children!!
They are working almost 20hrs a day but getting paid for a 10 hour work only. Their employeer also are the ones holding and sending their money/salary back to their home countries.
mohannad amasha it's not about the job and getting paid. Yes, they are fed, paid and such. The point is, an employee has the right to quit his/her job. Holding on to their passports prevents them from doing that because they are afraid the employers will not return them. As for the employers being compensated, isn't that the risk of every employment in any industry? If u employ, there is always a risk that it won't last, doesn't give u the right to hold on to them against their will. More importantly, employees have DIED and been KILLED. Follow the story of the woman who was put in the freezer and you'll probably get the passport thing. Her employer refused to give her passport until she was eventually killed. if u look closely enough too, See how long justice for the victim was served.
mohannad amasha Many of these women are promised so many things and are given all these high hopes but reality hits ones they arrive at their employers place. The living conditions and treatments are unbelievable. I’m hoping not all employers are like this but so far I’ve yet to hear any positive stories. The point is paid or not, no one deserves to be treated like shit! We’re all humans and everyone needs to treat each other as such.
This comment probably won't be seen. But boy do I care. I live in India and I'm a young lawyer. I come from a middle class family, of which my father's generation is the first to be well educated and have a good income. Needless to say, our family is heavy on charity and feel very blessed for everything however little we have. My previous job was as a junior to this lawyer who was born with a diamond encrusted golden spoon. She was born to the second wife of a tax embezzling jewellery maker who died and had all his property taken away by the government. She still managed to have a rich comfortable life throughout. She was already old when I met her and she never married so had no immediate family except for her grandnephew. She treated us all employees very badly, like we are a level lower than her. We weren't allowed to use the microwave, she monitored our lunchtime, and kept saying to us that we need to hurry up and eat fast. She would walk up to me casually and say "why are you being so dumb today?" for no reason whatsoever. She'd eat her food with h the employees, and made sure everyone left at different times so we'd never talk and share our thoughts on her with each other. One other girl said its her grandfather's death anniversary and that she would not come for a party. My ex boss said to the girl that those ceremonies are very boring and that she should come to the office party instead. On the day of the said office party, she asked me if I know any vegetarian restaurants available. I was telling her and she mocked me for being "slow". I named a bunch, yet she got us take out food from the take out restaurant on the ground floor of the office (where we got our lunch from every single goddamn day). When the food did arrive, the lady gracefully said we ordered too much, and we always waste so much food. HUMILIATING is a small word. But what really fucked me up was her slave girl. She was young, just a few years older than me. She made very little money, and wasn't married and came from a village nearby. Her job was to constantly stay at home with my ex boss because she felt lonely in her giant house. There were no breaks, no weekends, no outings etc. She would be locked in the house everyday by my boss. She wasn't encouraged to educate herself, and was confined to the house. She was not allowed to even have friends, let alone have a boyfriend, needless to say. She did everything in her power to trap me in her office, where I was not paid anything because I was earning "experience". I was given money one month and never again. I got scared and I stopped going to work. I gave various excuses like I'm sick, or my foot broke, etc. I ultimately left her for once and have never been happier.
I hear you my friend. People like that are best left alone- you did the right thing by leaving. I am here in America, even with Trump acting so foolish I am still happy to be here!
Thanks for all your kind words guys! I didn't really think this one will ever be read... I really wish I can do something for the girl but she'd never tell the cops the truth and I'll be in trouble for "falsely" alerting the cops. I'm from a big city (mumbai) so I don't know about casteism in rural areas. But I think we have mostly overcome all the prejudices. My family happens to be of the "top" caste, and you must have already heard of our financial situation. In modern India, after capitalism came in, caste is mostly of no consequence. People only care about how wealthy you are. But there are people like her, who have been rich for several generations, so she is a complete casteist. She told me how much she hated Muslims and the local community of Mumbai. She proudly said she never hires a Muslim person. She's a scumbag
I hate whenever people say we must be respectful of all culture, no matter what. That's such a stupid idea. If it was the case to accept cultures, no matter what, then NO ONE would have progressed since the beginning of time. Slavery was a part of early American culture, should we have just kept it in place? Should the early American settlers have just adjusted to the culture the monarchy had set in England and not left to go to America?
Tommy M Respecting and accepting are two different things though. You can respect people’s opinions but you don’t have to accept them. Also I’ve never heard of anyone saying that we should accept all cultures. Just that there is some good things and unique things from each culture. And other times, you kind of have to accept other people’s culture. If you are in a field of work that requires you to go overseas like the military work, trade jobs, or being an anthropologist.
Shit she really DOES think that employing someone to work in her home means she owns them and granting them four whole days off a month is generosity. And she is a social media influencer? I thought people like this would have to live under a rock or in a cave and be unsocialised... Hasnt she seen it's not how anywhere else in the world works? Or was she just too busy stamping on her domestic to notice?
Shes a monster with no empathy for human life while at the same time being a very popular social media influencer with a large following. Makes you think why it is that the media and people put these disgusting people up on pedestals.
Unfortunately most rich people in gulf countries think that, she is not alone in her mind, also they think of other arabs from other countries like that.
Dude I was taking a walk in one of these gulf regions and saw a MASSIVE dog house in the garden of someone's house. I later found out that the dog house was the maid's room where she eats and sleeps. Imagine that...
Thats horrible that she would support the workers not being able to keep their passports. It sounds like she supports borderline slavery. I'm appalled.
Anyway, I don't think that the rich who decide to use cheap labor workers are interested in remedying something, as long as no one judges them they will continue in the same.
Joe yes but the workers are still very mistreated by the famillies (The majority, there are fortunately some who are respected) + The law is still very fucked up. They shouldn't have their passports taken from them to begin with. Even if it happens rarely. It should not happen at ALL.
Jesus Christ you're not kuwaiti, i don't think you fully understand our situation here so don't generalize and say only some of them are treated nicely and with respect. It's the opposite, only some of them are treated disrespectfully and trust me the law punishes who do so. And just because you saw a few videos of shitty kuwaiti people mistreating their workers, doesn't mean ALL of us mistreat them.
Jesus Christ there are also workers who mistreat kids and eldery people who they are paid to care off the issue is more complicated than it seems and both sides have problems(kuwaitis more problems than workers but still)
No one has the right to stop an adult from quitting or leaving the country their in other than law enforcement or airport safety officials. Slavery must be abolished from places that still practice it. Hopefully any workers being held against their will can find a way to leave and find work with decent people where they have decent rights.
I mean millions of people around the world actual slaves. Yeah slavery didn't end hundred of years ago, it's alive and well in many places. Most notable various countries in Africa. Kuwait is borderline old school slavery, although this sounds closer to blackmail to keep people employed and under control.
It absolutely is. You should read _The Illegal_ by Lawrence Hill - it paints the picture of what this sort of practice is like very clearly, and shows how people in places like that are often dehumanized and mistreated... Definitely a practice that ought to be abolished.
@thormaster06 So having the *privilege* to *voluntarily* come to another country to work, *agreeing* to working conditions by signing a contract and *getting paid* ... is slavery now?
When they force you to stay even against your will, that's forced servitude. this is a common practice throughout the middle east. I recall the time i was in Saudi Arabia, there was very few native employees of many of the businesses there. many of them living off the backs of those they employ in this same manner. its actually quite disgusting and has no place in society today. its a form of modern slavery to force someone to stay in a location against their will, and you have them working for you. When you take away their ability to leave when they wish you are doing that. The only thing separating it from fully forced servitude/slavery is them not going off to collect them against their will.
I Lived in Kuwait for 9 yeas where my mom who is an Egyptian woman worked as a doctor. Her friend who is also a doctor was harassed at work from her boss, and when she complained, he fired her and refused to give her her passport. And this is not a abnormal case, Kuwait is on of the most racist country in the whole world
I am a Kuwaiti im sorry that this happened to her but you can't say that its the most racist country , yes there are many racist people but there are some pretty decent people that are trying their best to stop these situations from happening .
Sondos' statements strike me as spoiled and entitled. I don't know what she's like in her personal life but the views she expressed while not necessarily racist, suggest a person who feels she's entitled to her way of life regardless of it's negative impact on another person and doesn't understand that the rights and freedoms of these workers exceed her own desires and rights as an employer. It seems to me that she's lived all or most of her life with someone subservient to her and doesn't understand that such a situation isn't normal or acceptable (almost) anywhere else in the world. This doesn't justify her views or actions, only speculates on her motives. Leaving a culture to it's own devices is fine to a point, but there is always a line to be crossed. Racism, genocide, slavery, murder, these are crossing the line in ways that cannot be ignored. Culture is a defense for some things but not a free pass for everything.
Sandos is clearly on the mindset with many Kuwaitis, they treat Filipinos and many other of their employees like slaves. The reason they hold the passport is so they cannot escape from them, an employee won’t leave out of nowhere if they are treated well. In her mind she thinks she has justified her reasons, that’s what makes it scary, I truly feel bad for those who work for them. It makes me sick.
I was in Dubai for a month a few years ago and it was during Ramadan, so almost every night we were having feasts with other families for Iftar. One of the families we went to had gotten a new in-home maid that day and while I don’t know Arabic fluently I heard them say something to the affect of “I hope she’s not one of the ones that cries on the first night, just get the job done and get over it” and I’ve honestly never felt so nauseous in my life over the behavior of another person. Of course because of etiquette and the culture there I couldn’t say anything being a guest, a female, and a “child” at the time. I understand that cultures around the world view workers in a different light and that being raised around that culture you’d become desensitized to the injustice but it’s nonetheless disappointing to see countries making the same mistakes that we’ve already learned from.
It differs from family to family some families humiliates its maids and drivers and some treats them as one of them but its generally really bad if you treat them worse and it gets out on social media because you will lose sponsorships and these maids can sue but they are no official laws against maid abuse or anything but they can sue and win
That lady doesn't even want to acknowledge these workers as humans, she thinks they're slaves. She calls them servants and thinks they shouldn't do anything except work for them.
mah mam too much emotional 😒 like you crying for why someone is working to get money which all of us are doing!! U need more than saddam to settle your crazy emotions down
Elise M Monsanto regularly supports trafficking illegal immigrants and hires them only to then rat them out to the US traffic police when they lose their use.
She wasn't talking about an employee she was talking about a slave this woman fully believes these people are her slaves. Its fucking crazy because you see it on her face she totally does not understand why what she is saying is monstrous.
Never heard of Sondos Alqattan, now that I do, I don't WANT to know more about the sort of person she is. The fact that she believes domestic workers are EXEMPT from human rights means they are treated as slaves until your contract is over, and are treated as LESS than human. That said; employers in the middle east HOLDING the passports of their employees hostage is VERY REAL - ESPECIALLY when it's Filipino employees. Fact: domestic worker abuse found in the middle east has been ongoing for over two decades or more. A few of the people who I know that work there have run into more than their fair share of racists. Also, if you can get a hold of their LOCAL jobsites/papers (not the heavily edited ones that are available to international consumption), you can easily spot a ton of racist "tells" in what they want for employment right down to what color of skin or nationality specified. As long as you aren't Asian - especialy filipino - you won't get lowballed on your wages.
Do you think the antagonism towards Filipinos has anything to do with them being 1. One of the few southeast Asian countries that isn't majority Muslim, and 2. Their being majority Catholic
@Nick Finan To be honest; it's a toss-up between the two - I think, but it can also be other factors outside of the two. The Philippines is one of the few countries (or more likely the ONLY country that I can think of) that have more than half of the world's "best exports" labelled as people in the form of domestic workers. Filipinoes are usualy touted as extremely good and hard working workers no matter what job class they are in - ranging from often mentioned domestic workers, to being CEO's. For others; there's a certain stigma sometimes when you're looked at as the "maid" or "hired help" stereotype. Anybody - even to this day, will think similar thoughts to Sondos Alqattan's attitude because those in that kind of "category" of domestic help are those having low iq - and are more or less "cattle" that don't deserve to be human just because they're "servants". Catholicism could also be part of it - but I don't think it's the whole story. Depending on which side of Islamic faith they're at, there ARE some sects that are totally AGAINST anybody outside their religion and treat them as "infidels". There is no in-between tolerance for the most part. You could be an atheist for all they care and still will look down on you just because you're different. I had an ex that still works in Dubai, and even though she's a MANAGER in her department - they STILL required her to hand over her passport while contracted to them. So yes, it's NOT just domestic workers there - and also, sometimes NOT just Filipinos. Although I have YET to hear any US/Brit/Western/European expat given the same treatment. Despite existing laws, multiple big and small organizations in the middle east continue to take away the passports of foreign employees, entrapping employees into a byzantine system of human rights violations and forced employment. Sometimes, just "arguing" to keep your passports have consequences - most especially worrisome to domestic workers more often than not because they have literally NO choice whatsoever. You're only lucky if you've gotten a good rapport with the employer - if not, life can be hell (and sometimes unluckily fatal). Some of those consequences include employer-issued fines, wage stagnation, and sudden termination - and sometimes a beating if you're contracted as a "servant" (ie domestic worker). The sudden termination also carries a permanent blacklisting 9 times out of 10 - making you unable to find work anywhere there with immediate deportation. If you're lucky, you get deported. If unlucky, you get "deported" in a body bag as in the case of one domestic worker that was found in their employer's fridge.
As a Filipino, I'm disgusted, how can she say something like that, not knowing the life of a lot of us. Many spend years away from their families, slaving away while their families live without them. I grew up having my dad be working away from home. And a lot of my friends, family and acquantances do to. I'm just at a lost for words.
@Philip DeFranco. The way the people in the middle east treats expac working is horrible. I meet my wife (filipina) while I was in the military back in 2003. She was working in Bahrain and I was stationed there for about 8 months. And OMG dealing with Arabs can be so much of a headache and yes the way they treat overseas working is in fact borderline slavery. What they consider non long working hours is a minimum of 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. That said I have a few other things to comment on how they treat other people. - Workers are required to hand over their passport, this is actually done because the Arabs do not honor the contract terms. Thus they hold the passport to keep the expac from leaving. - Housing/Living conditions are never what they are described in their contract, the housing can have 3 or more people per room and they also charge the expac worker RENT.. - Almost always charge the expac worker a huge fee just to get the chance to work overseas, often this fee is so high they can spend one to two years just paying this back. So despite being lead to believe they will be making good money, they take rent, travel and visa cost and a huge fee just to get to work there.. Which ends up making they expac earn about 75% less than what they were promised.. So they only end up making about $200 a month. Then they have to buy their own food form that money as well. Also forgot to add, they also impose curfews on workers and dictate where and when they can go somewhere and also prohibit them in many cases from dating.
as someone who is middle eastern and grew up in the middle east, everything you are talking about is relevant and frustratingly common, however generalizing that all Arabs adhere to these ways and are hard to deal with is not accurate. this is not a cultural thing and it should not overshadow efforts by nationals and expats within the country itself to reform these social injustices. as someone who researched into this topic and became familiarized with different groups within Kuwait, including Project189 and Social Work Society, who have been working for years on reforming these policies and spreading awareness about social injustices that domestic workers go through, it is important to notice that there are people, locals and expats, that care about these issues and what to ensure that these human right violations are not happening in their countries. not everyone is as ignorant and demonic as these statements make it seem and i think that that and the efforts aforementioned should be noted as well when talking about this topic... especially when it is done in a generalizing way.
And the Americans probably got their slaves from Africa sold to them by people following the islamic faith... Slavery ended in America almost two centuries ago... yet it still exists in islamic countries.
Slavery still exists in America and Europe. Stop being so naive. Slavery will never end. Americas sex slave industry is very well known then you have countries like poland endorsing north Korean slaves.
aaronsdavis there were total 6 million slaves in the us. EVER. there were 250 000 000 enslaved people by middle easterners, including european slaves, even the word slave comes from slav, which is white caucasian meaning.
Tell that to the countries who currently have legislation restricting rights for women and the LGBT community. People treat people they like the way they want to be treated, but treat people they don't like, like garbage.
"How would I get a refund?". Sondos sounds as though she is treating her maid as nothing more than a commodity. If I buy something from the supermarket and it is off, I would ask for a refund but this is an actual human being, not some out of date sandwich. Those words she spoke ( at 4.10 ) have got me so angry that she could be so dismissive of somebody's life that I hope her poor maid is able to get her passport and get a better employer. Sondos is a worthy recipient of douchebag of the day for sure 🏆🥇
♻Delilah Winchester ♻ RIGHT? My employer sure as hell doesn’t get a refund if I quit my job. If they were employed properly and normally like everyone else in the world does, the employer would just STOP PAYING THEM. Just by that statement of hers you can tell that her “culture” supports modern day slavery. Sickening.
The more I have thought about it, and why she would call her maid a commodity and get worried about a refund is if she "bought" her off a migrant worker trafficker and still owes money on the transaction. The de humanisation of the poor woman is still getting me so angry. I couldn't agree more about with what you said about her culture (or lack thereof) having slavery so deeply ingrained into it. If everything was above board, the maid should be able to leave anytime she wants.
♻Delilah Winchester ♻ I think some explanation is required for perspective. In most middle eastern countries, Employers need to sponsor employees and pay quite a lot of money to the government each time they hire a foreign worker. You need to pay visa fees, labour department fees, medical test fees etc. Then, if you hire through a recruitment agency, there's their fee as well as the travel cost of the new employee to bring them from.. Philippines to Kuwait in this case. Quite a long flight and there are costs in the Philippines as well in order for the maid to be allowed to leave the country. On average, to sponsor a maid will cost about 4000 US dollars roughly when you consider all these things. In some places, there's also an additional security deposit one needs to lodge with the government. This is returned when you cancel the employees visa and all claims have been settled. The deposit is kept to resolve any disputes over compensation. This is all excluding things like monthly salary, food, accommodation, medical bills etc. which is usually provided for by the employer. The salary amount is upto the employer, but I believe that for housemaids there is a minimum wage requirement rule. (I am speaking about the UAE, but I expect something similar for Kuwait) So what she's talking about is... What if my maid decides to leave the country 3 months after I hire her? How do I recover my expenses? I am not saying I agree with her at all, and she probably spends more on shoes in a week by the looks of her, but I think you need to be aware of how things work there. It doesn't mean she has bought the maid or literally owns her.
I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know about the things I was ignorant about before, Like you said, you don't agree with her but I genuinely appreciate you letting me know how things work there. The comment made me angry and I was putting the standards of the country I live in as the benchmark of what Sondos was saying.
it's in their culture to treat people like that there are groups trying to change the law for workers right but the government like your slave do whatever the hell you want
It's no secret that slavery in the Middle East is a major issue. I've spent a lot of time in various countries in that part of the world and I've come across numerous "servants," both native and foreign that have experienced abuse and manipulation by their "employers." Things like passports being confiscated and wages being withheld are common occurrences, unfortunately. It's good that countries like Kuwait are attempting to improve the situations of these workers, but there is still a lot of room for improvement. Hopefully stories like this will lead to awareness of the issue and possibly some positive change in the world. Only time will tell.
I lived in the Middle East for 9 years and a half. For most of my life I’ve had a nanny, because both my parents are doctors and can be too busy to take care of me sometimes. They didn’t neglect me, but they have long working hours. I think of all of my nannies I’ve had over the years as my family. It makes me so sad that these people are being treated so horribly. They deserve to be treated and respected better. These are the people who take care of you.
CybranM GoneFishingStories No one who has spent any time as a server in a restaurant is surprised by the dismissive and infantilizing attitude displayed by a middle easterner. The tone displayed of many many people from that region is of the “master to servant” variety and can be seen from the first time they call you over to their table, without a please of thank you to the most miserly or nonexistent tip as they leave. Now for my most controversial observation: The best predictors of a experience different than described above is the lack of head coverings and crosses on their necklaces.
No. All humans aren't equal. Some people are inherently more shitty than others. Saying all humans are equal is like saying Hitler is equal to Nelson Mandela, which is obviously not true.
+Aden aio no, his actions may not be equal but both of them as human beings are equal. In a trial, these two people should be put under the same scrutiny and hitler would get the shaft on his actions NOT because he is subhuman
I lived in the UAE for 19 years and I’d just like to point out that Sondos’ opinion is very common in the middle east and most people there would agree with her if not think that she’s being too lenient on the workers. Some people do treat their workers respectfully and teach their kids to treat them as if they were their uncles/aunts, but they are a very small minority.
I don't know if this is just propaganda, but here in the Philippines, we have this TV series of "real" overseas filipino worker stories where they're being maltreated by their employers which are disproportionately more common coming from Muslim countries (they do show non-muslim ones too). The Mindanao issue (a muslim part of the country) doesn't help either too. I've also heard from a boss who has worked there that they (males) must grow beards there or else they'd be raped. Could be just a joke though. I've no intention of working in the Middle-East anyhow. The weather seems awful.
@@Blackbirdinthedeadofnight i agree. As an indonesian, we consider filipinos as our brothers and sisters, our workers abroad also get abused and basically enslaved especially in countries like saudi arabia. I hope middle eastern countries would reform their laws in the near future and for this type of abuse to stop happening...
Culture is definitely not an excuse for treating other people like garbage because of where they’re from. These people are treated like slaves because they’re not arabs and actually treated like property. I lived in Kuwait for a little bit and from what I’ve seen, everyone their has a servant and they treat them like garbage and it has to stop. Employment does not equal ownership
I'm from kuwait i do not live there anymore however, Not everyone has a servant and not everyone treats them like garbage, However i 100% agree that employment does not equal ownership.
Kuwaitis can be very raciest and sometimes find themselves superior to everyone else , but not EVERYONE treats their workers like garbage and not EVERYONE has a “servent” me and my husband chose not to and not because we think its racist or evil to give someone a job just because we can do it on our own ...
I lived in Kuwait for 10 years and everyone I met was very respectful to their workers. We live in Dubai now and we still have a worker but we treat her well and give her weekends and holidays. I agree though that some Kuwaitis are horrible and there should be better laws in place to protect workers.
It’s not because of nationality it’s because of financial status. If a Pilipino guy was a businessman, he’d be treated with respect. It’s awful either way.
i live in kuwait.. defranco is spot on on all of his personal opinions about this social media infleuncer.. the majority of Kuwaitis do that and justify it with their stuipd culture.. just becuz these people are desperate for jobs to save their families from dying doesnt mean I have to hold thier passports..
I hate hate hate the argument of "Well, it's my culture" i have heard that too many times while working with people from all different corners of the world. "The new worker doesn't respect me and cusses at me when i give him tasks" "Well... it's his culture!" "Why are the shopkeepers having squirrels in mailbox sized cages literally going crazy in there" "It's for good luck! It's their culture!" Why can't we all be decent human beings for once?
MrJabloney a permit and a passport are two different things. Furthermore, keeping such an important document is a way to manipulate the person that it belongs to. I understand that they don’t want to loose their employe but it is proven that you will get more out of a person that has a good relationship with you than out of a person who sees you as a threat to themselves.
No MrJabloney, copy of the passport if you need an ID. That's how you protect yourself if you're an employer. There should be no need to keep the original. That's only to keep someone hostage.
Preventing workers from holding on to their passports and only giving them sometimes less than 4 days a month off.....that sounds like slavery with extra steps.
"Article 13. (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country." That's from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Boom.
About the tragic events in Greece. A shine of hope to all the destruction that the fires caused, was the incredible response from people all over Greece in a matter of hours. Responding to pleas for help through social media, a huge influx of volunteers, medicine, food, clothes, money went directly to the areas affected. Blood doners rushed to the hospitals and there were even people giving their spare houses to families that lost theirs. I can't recall a greater and faster response of humanity in our country as long as I am alive.
I live in Greece and the dead are 76 right now. Families were found burned and hugged, 26 people died as they found a dead end in their effort to reach the beach, many drowned or were burned in their cars. A 6 month child died on a boat because of the smoke. Horrific stuff.
Jfc, I'm so sorry that's happening. Thank you for the update, I'm so glad he covered this today. As sad as it sounds, I hadn't heard it was happening. I wish you and your family/friends safety and well-being.
So that Sondos chick would be fine if the companies that employ her for social media things got to hold on to HER passport? Because it's the same thing.
Thank you for covering the story with Sondos!! This happens so often in the Middle East with people who go to work. These people go to work hard in the Middle East to send money back to their families, and instead of respecting them, they are treated as slaves and less than human. It is a vile act that is conducted through out the middle East and needs to brought to light in order for Arab attitudes to change.
Dominic Perez she’s a piece of garbage. How the hell do you think it’s okay to treat another HUMAN like that. Hopefully all of her brand deals and sponsors fall through.
I believe that most Filipino’s are pissed. This is disgusting and ignorant. No one should be treated as anything lesser than a person. I don’t care if they are their for work and what not. Everyone should be treated as a person. I have never been so angry in my life about something. These are people who are trying to support their families! 😡🤬 Showed this to my family and half are from the Philippines and they are pissed as well. She should lose her brand deals and sponsors.
I am Indonesian-Canadian. Indonesia is also a country that sends many foreign domestic workers to other countries to make money for their families. This is a very close to home topic. Even with domestic workers within the country, it can be a little inconvenience to have someone quit and leave, but they are human and that's their right. Just deal with it and take care of your home before hiring someone new. It's not like the whole household will fall apart in just a few days. They are not slaves, they are employees who have the right to quit just like with any other type of work.
If we did not criticize culture because it isn't ours then we cannot criticize regimes, slavery, and other harmful and dehumanizing actions that can be described as "tradition" and "culture"
Phil 100% spot on with regards to Sondos! I'm from the middle east and it has nothing to do with religion/culture. Could not agree more with you. And, the fact that she compared an adult employee's rights to that of a minor indeed proves that she views these innocent workers as less than equal to her. She has no respect for the human rights of these workers and is treating them as slaves who's inherent value is monetary. Truly sickening. I'm embarrassed that this airhead is misrepresenting our culture as one that accepts the oppression of these poor individuals who tire relentlessly so that little Miss can sit pretty all day and take selfies.
"F*** your culture if your culture is s***ting on other human beings." Amen. Preach it, brother. Some things transcend culture. Human dignity and freedom, for starters.
