"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)