Madali
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Wow, didn't know that you belong to the old timer Iranians in Dubai. I spent part of my childhood in the Eastern part of Saudi Arabia. There were 3 families in our neighborhood who had some Persian blood in them. One famaily had the last name كوهجي which is obviously Persian. They were all Sunnis though, but lived and acted like anyone one of us. It was pretty much the last name that made them different, although most people acknowledge their remote association with Persians.
I grew up in the old Dubai before all the glitter and it being trendy. Back then, people didn't group themselves in their own little community, because there were the population was so small. The Iranians would speak Arabic, the Emiratis would speak Urdu, the Pakistanis would speak Farsi. It was only the British living in Jumeirah that seemed to have separated themselves from the community.
If you notice from my posts, I rarely insult Arabs as people. And frankly, I also hate when 300 millions of Arab are categorized as one group. When I was growing up, there seemed nothing in common with the Emiratis and say, the Lebanese. I suppose they looked at us in the same way too. We were the "khodmoonis" or "achomee", they treated us differently than newly arrived Iranians from Tehran.