I made no reference to agreeing with the original comment so your long winded rant is wasted on me. I was just correcting the inaccuracies in your post.

They make $300 a month which sounds like shit until you consider the salaries in India where shitting in the streets is seen as a normal thing.

Even if I got them mixed around, the point still stands, the ‘white man’ had very little to do with the Burj Khalifa’s construction. If the big thing they did was design which I did mention the quote I said still stands, the original design philosophies used behind the building were not created by the ‘white man’.

Next thing you’ll be telling me that mosques were developed by white architecture too, oh I’ve already heard that one as well. Literally everything and anything that especially the Muslim world has managed to accomplish is somehow because of the ‘white man’ to you people.

You people have no idea that the driving force behind the UAE and Dubai despite its multiculturalism are still ARABs.

Hell if I’m to use the logic you people use the moon landing only happened because of an Egyptian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farouk_El-Baz

“The key scientist who helped NASA plan and identify the Moon landing location for Apollo 11 historic moon landing in 1969, El-Baz is currently a leading expert in the study of deserts and how to find and sustain water in such environments in the Arab world.”

The ‘white man’ does a lot and again that’s why I hate these arguments because I don’t go around discrediting a whole race of people because they don’t live up to another race or some ridiculous nonsense. To act like one race is responsible for the modern world today is idiotic, and to act like if that race didn’t exist that the world would stop developing is even stupider. The world would continue to develop with or without the ‘white man’.

Pretty much everything you said is wrong. Emaar were the developer only. Samsung C&T were the contractor and it was designed by US firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Regardless, you missed the point Mike Drake was making (even if he was misguided).

Honestly the ‘white man’ has so little to do with the Burj Khalifa it’s laughable. It was constructed by Emaar (a UAE company) that hired Southeast Asian workers and designed by Samsung a South Korean company.

The ‘white man’ had very little to do with the Burj Khalifa just like the ‘white man’ had very little to do with most of the Ancient wonders of the world, the world does not revolve around Europeans believe it or not. Even the ‘white’ engineers who worked on this building were using design concepts that non-whites invented:

“Burj Khalifa uses the bundled tube design of the Willis Tower, invented by Fazlur Rahman Khan.”

I really hate conversations like these but really this myth that the white man does everything and anything that’s great needs to be dispersed.