Arabs and playstation 3

[Canuck_Buck]

http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/UAE/205676


As the countdown to the March 07 official arrival of PLAYSTATION®3 in the Middle East begins, SonyGulf says that there are plenty of good reasons for customers to wait.

"œAnticipation is building ahead of the official arrival of PS3â„¢ in the region,"� said Tim Stokes, Sales & Marketing Director, PlayStation Division - Sony Gulf, "œand rightly so. The lucky few people who have managed to try it first hand are raving about its features and the quality of graphics making it one of the most eagerly awaited consumer product launches of all time."�

[Strange Biller]

1. Not everyone in the Middle East is an Arab. Some are Persians, some are Jews, etc.

2. I don't understand the point of this thread/link. Are you suggesting the Middle East shouldn't have access to PS3 or are you simply expressing amazement that there are people in the Middle East that enjoy technology as much as Westerners?

[Canuck_Buck]

1-didn't say everyone in the middle east was an Arab, but odds are there are plenty in theEmirates which is where the article is from.

2-Western ideas seem to work fine in the Emirates or did you miss that point too?

SB, did you not get your coffee today ?

[Strange Biller]

I just didn't understand the point of a thread for this article. I still don't.

[kevin1]

Perhaps the fact that the Middle East as a whole is technologically stagnant and gets nearly all of it's technology from other countries will shed a bit of light , the Arabs don't seem to create anything but oil acolytes . Name the last great Arab invention . My vote goes to the distillation process, but then I may be a bit biased , and that isn't exactly new either.

[Canuck_Buck]

Now we are talking Kev, another fantastic point made by the finest mind on NHI.

If a middle eastern country adapts western ideals will they lose their cultural identity? I think not if they don't try to become California or Canada....lol

We all know that the middle east consumers buy western and european products. Australia ships livestock regularly ( sheep and goats )

What dothey exportbesides chick peas, pistachios, raisins, dates, cumin, saffron, assorted dried fruit, Olives ( olive oils ). Maybe camel and goat products? and we can't forgetCrude Oil.

What else is there?

Here's some interesting reading

http://eprints.dur.ac.uk/view/year/2006.html

[Strange Biller]

They've put their technology where it will work for them - oil, oil, oil. That doesn't seem odd or backwards to me. What would seem stupid would be to have a significant amount of money to invest in some kind of UAI country and instead of putting it in oil, putting it in electronics.

Again, I don't understand the point, except for it seems to be a snickering sort of "lookey here at them dumb ass a-rabs."

[Canuck_Buck]

SB, sometimes an article is just an article

Sony playstation is from ***an right?

Has not ***an adapted western ideals into their own culture and thrived?

Maybe they are importing PS3's because they hate Americans and the West?

[younggun308]

If I were drunk,(Which I never have been BTW,except when I ate soup which contained white wine) I would say you need to get off the crack,Canuck Buck!

[Canuck_Buck]

LMAOOOO @ younggun243