Tuesday, March 05, 2013

judging "culture"

"Local experts have recognised a similar trend in the UAE. "Some children in the Emirates, regardless of their cultural background, have a sense of entitlement," says Clare Smart, a counsellor at Lifeworks Counselling and Development, Dubai (www.lifeworksdubai.com). "This view that they are entitled to be successful, attractive, or wealthy weakens the individual (and the culture as a whole) as the attitude to work less, but expect more, becomes ingrained.""  As opposed to wealthy people's child rearing in the West? (thanks Basim)