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Why do I like Dubai so much?
For many, Dubai is just a big Middle Eastern Disneyland. For others it is a special place, about six hours by direct flight from Milan, where you can swim in the sea all year round, in a truly beautiful and clean sea. For still others, the capital of one of the two united Arab emirates is skyscrapers, hectic life even twenty-four hours a day, beautiful cars and women, jewels, endless malls, Lamborghinis and Ferraris on every street corner ...
For me it is above all a place of beauty, under a thousand facets, but it is, above all else, one of the world capitals of liberalism and liberalism, not ostentatious, but real and tangible in many ways.
I always go back very willingly, lately more for work, and, when it happens to me between January and February, for me it is a double party, like having a drink at one of the many bars on the street, in a short-sleeved T-shirt even in the evening, in a a place where city crime almost does not exist. And without forgetting that our currency is worth almost five times theirs, which obviously means a much lower cost of living than in Italy.
However, the main reason for my very special relationship with Dubai lies in the fact that, as I have just written, this city is, for me, one of the world capitals of liberalism and liberalism.
But let’s go step by step and read from Treccani, an authoritative Italian encyclopedia (and encyclopedic dictionary), the two definitions:
masculine noun liberalism [derivation of liberal]. - 1. a. Being liberal (in the political sense), having liberal sentiments: he has always openly manifested his liberalism; liberalism of ideas, principles, opinions. b. Attitude of understanding and respect for the opinions of others: showing liberalism in judging others. 2. a. The complex of principles, conceptions and ideologies in which an ethical and political attitude is expressed, which has at its center the problems of freedom and its defense, and which recognizes an autonomous value for the individual, tending to limit action state, in its various determinations, on the basis of a constant distinction between public and private. Economic liberalism, more properly called liberalism (see), stands out from political liberalism, as now defined, and which can present different aspects (for which we spoke of a moderate liberalism and a democratic or radical liberalism). b. Historically, liberalism is called a movement of anticlerical tendencies, and generally anti-traditionalist, which developed at the beginning of the 19th century with the aim of limiting the arbitraries of absolute governments and obtaining from them the granting of juridical and constitutional guarantees, and affirmed above all in the period of the revolutionary movements, of which he was to a large extent the promoter.
masculine noun liberalism [derivation of free]. - In a broad sense, an economic system hinging on the freedom of the market, in which the state limits itself to guaranteeing economic freedom with legal rules and providing only for the needs of the community that cannot be satisfied on the initiative of individuals (also called liberalism or individualism economic). Specifically, freedom of international trade, also called free trade, as an economic doctrine and practice opposed to protectionism.
And of course I know well that many will shout their dissent with respect to this, wanting to condemn, with a few offensive slogans, a political-economic-religious system different from their own. |
