Multicultural Environment in the UAE Entrepreneurship

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Though the shift towards the development of internationally accepted values in the UAE private entrepreneurship field is considered to be controversial by a range of organizations, the positive tendencies that it has contributed to are still obvious. It is with the introduction of the intercultural values that the UAE organizations will be capable of promoting tolerance, developing new tools for getting essential social messages across, and enhance the communication process between the Emirati society and the representatives of other cultures, therefore, affecting the demographic imbalance within the state.

Indeed, according to the recent studies, the so-called problem of demographic imbalance has started to gain increasingly great weight in the UAE society. Defined as the conflict between the national and non-national denizens of the UAE population,¹ the phenomenon not only impedes the progress of globalization, but also affects the perception of the globalization process by the local residents in a rather negative manner.

It should be born in mind that the concept of multiculturalism and the process of globalization, which has spawned it, has not been welcomed with open arms by the residents of the UA due to the challenges that the state had to deal with shortly after the process was launched: the globalization process is perceived as threatening to their authentic (asil) local Arab cultural identity.² Herein the reasons for the resentment towards multiculturalism and the denial of the concept, which some of the UAE residents express, lie.

Consequently, the issue of the demographic imbalance requires that the conflict between the native and non-native residents should be quenched. This can be achieved with the help of reconciliation between the Emirati and the Western cultures. The native residents must be certain that they will be capable of retaining their basic cultural values.³

The process of values evolution can be enhanced with the help of a variety of methods, the promotion of the national sports being one of the means available. According to the existing sources, falconry,⁴ which is viewed as one of the defining characteristics of the UAE culture, may become warranted by the UNO and, therefore, be considered a legitimate kind of sports along with the rest of worldwide activities. As a result, the UAE will be capable of sharing its values with the rest of the world and, thus, become a part of the globalization process instead of being its victim.⁵

The specified process concerns not only strictly cultural issues, but also sociopolitical ones. For instance, the notorious issue concerning gender profiling in a number of the UAE institutions⁶ deserves to be brought up as the issue that the introduction of multiculturalism may help address.⁷ Demanding that the entire population of the UAE should deny their cultural traditions and shift towards the model suggested by the Western philosophy would be unfair. Therefore, a flexible compromise must be suggested so that the Western principles of communication should address the demographic imbalance without destroying the Emirati culture and only suggesting progress based on multilateral evolution.⁸

Being a catalyst for advancing crucial concepts of tolerance, as well as other essential values, therefore, making them understandable to any denizens of the Emirati population, multicultural values are an important addition to the set of principles that the UAE society is guided by at present and addressing the issue of demographic imbalance. Even though some of the foreign concepts may seem alien to the Emirati culture or even conflict with the key tenets of the latter, the incorporation of these values will still serve as the fundament for developing strong and trustworthy relationships with the representatives of other cultures.

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Footnotes

1. Ingo Forstenlechner and Emilie Jane Rutledge, The GCCs Demographic Imbalance: Perceptions, Realities and Policy Options, Middle East Policy 18, no. 4 (2011): p. 26.

2. Sulayman Khalaf, Globalization and the Heritage Revival in the Gulf: An Anthropological Look at Dubai Heritage Village, Journal of Social Affairs 19, no. 75 (2002): p. 14.

3. Noora Lori, National Security and the Management of Migrant Labor: A Case Study of the United Arab Emirates, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 20, no. 3-4 (2011): p. 315.

4. Sarina Wakeeld, Falconry as Heritage in the United Arab Emirates, World Archaeology 44, no. 2 (2012), pp. 282.

5. Ali M. Al-Khouri, Population Growth and Government Modernisation Efforts, IRACST- International Journal of Research in Management & Technology (IJRMT) 1 (2011): no. 1, p. 4.

6. Badreya Al-Jenaibi, Gender Issues in the Diversity and Practice of Public Relations in the UAE Case Study of P.R. Male Managers and Female P.R. Practitioners, International Journal of E-Politics 2, no. 3 (2011): p. 37.

7. Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel, Changing Mass Priorities: The Link between Modernization and Democracy, Perspectives on Politics 8, no. 2 (2010): 557.

8. Horinuki Koji, Controversies over Labour Naturalisation Policy and its Dilemmas: 40 Years of Emiratisation in the United Arab Emirates, Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies 4, no. 12 (2011): p. 44

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