OK Where is Yemen?

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24 Apr 2013, 5:14 am

And should I worry that they bought the liquor store?

I didn't know they were really from somewhere else for a while when my 17 yo son (at the time) started working there. Then he got in a fight with one of them over some stupid sh*t. And so I went in there tonight to get cigarettes cause they were the only place open. First off, dude was rude and there was horrible not music playing and he wore this weird thing and said WHAT YOU WANT and I told him I was so and so's mother then he got real nice and all and I fist bumped him for slapping around the crackhead that was trying to steal the CD's but I don't know if I trust him. He was all one way before then all nice. That's like a Yellow Dog Democrat there!

I said Where are you from anyway? He said Yemen. Now he may have just been saying someplace he knew I wouldn't know. I don't know.

It's not that he's middle eastern. I love learning about cultures and stuff. Its why the hell would he move TO THIS TOWN from anywhere? That's what I don't trust. Nobody moves here by choice!

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24 Apr 2013, 1:37 pm

I don't understand the point you're trying to make here....

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24 Apr 2013, 2:56 pm

alakazaam wrote:

I don't understand the point you're trying to make here....

This guy moved from a distant middle eastern country next to Oman to a small town in the south. Olive wants to know how that happened.

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24 Apr 2013, 3:34 pm

I can understand the strangeness of someone coming from a hostile foreign country and purposely moving to Stinky Armpit, USA.

...of course, the same could be said for ANYONE moving there.

Do they just have a job there, or did they have a wad of cash to BUY the business?

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24 Apr 2013, 4:47 pm

Trout fishing.

They were drawn there by the trout fishing.

But atleast you know that there is a limit to their Islamic fanaticism - they have no compunction about selling liquor.

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24 Apr 2013, 9:10 pm

Does OliveOil from Oman? Is she in the middle east? Or is she USAmerican? It's confusing.

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24 Apr 2013, 10:48 pm

jk1 wrote:

Does OliveOil from Oman? Is she in the middle east? Or is she USAmerican? It's confusing.

She's in a dinky, run-down town in the southern USA. Very little reason for ANYONE to want to move there, so it's a little suspect when a family of foreigners come in, buy a business and act different than they're used to... the automatic reaction, these days, is suspicion.

Quite frankly, that might not be such a bad thing... "careful optimism" (as opposed to "immediate overreaction".)

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25 Apr 2013, 1:49 am

OliveOilMom wrote:

Yemen is directly south of Saudi Arabia, and is right next to Oman, although Oman is to the east, and slightly more north of Yemen. Yemen is an Arab country, is one of the poorest Arab states with the official statistic is that 35% are employed and the country has quite low standards of living (therefore probably his reason for moving), and in is primarily Muslim.

Many Yemeni's move to Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates, which is also not far away, or to other places to find work, as the national economy of both Yemen and Oman is usually overshadowed by Saudi Arabia.

I have met a few Yemeni's and quite a few Omani's before. Most of the Omani's I have met are absolutely lovely people - and the majority of Yemeni's too. I suspect I have merely had very, very good luck in this regard thus far though. Some of the cultural differences can seem quite abrupt to westerners, but most of the younger generation who come here to work or study seem to integrate very well.

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25 Apr 2013, 10:06 am

The very fact that they are in the sticks makes them less suspect.

Wouldnt self respecting terrorists pick a more important place than Dogpatch USA... to blow up!

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25 Apr 2013, 10:10 am

naturalplastic wrote:

The very fact that they are in the sticks makes them less suspect.

Wouldnt self respecting terrorists pick a more important place than Dogpatch USA... to blow up!

Base of operations to get their farm fertilizer... [/paranoia]

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25 Apr 2013, 11:37 am

A friend of mine is married to a Yemeni man. He is one of the nicest, friendliest, kindest, hard-working, polite and decent people you could hope to meet.

Don't judge people by where they are from. Judge individuals by their own actions and personality, no matter their race or origin.

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25 Apr 2013, 11:52 am

BlueMax wrote:

I can understand the strangeness of someone coming from a hostile foreign country

Minor point; Yemen the nation-state is not hostile to the US at all. Our ties are actually strengthening, and there has been rapid development of a military/anti-terrorism relationship. Yemen is known to contain some people who are hostile to us, but name one country that doesn't.

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Do they just have a job there, or did they have a wad of cash to BUY the business?

I'm wondering if they were there for economic reasons. "The sticks" were the first place they could actually afford a business, coming from Yemen. America, the land of opportunity.

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25 Apr 2013, 12:37 pm

Maybe he's in the witness protection program.

I used to wonder about stuff like that too, especially ethinic restaurant owners. How do they get the more unusual ingredients of their dishes out in the boonies?

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25 Apr 2013, 2:37 pm

I think that that family got themselves out of an unhappy place and just wanted a small, peaceful town that felt safe.

I hope that they have found what they were seeking, and I hope people welcome them and give them a chance at a good life.

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25 Apr 2013, 4:48 pm

Yes- The governement of Yemen is very cooperative with the US now. But Alqueda has safe house and camps there as well. Its a rugged primitive country well suited to being a hide out.

Had a very good journalism professor in the eighties who was an arab who graduated from the Cairo campus of american university during the 1956 war with Israel. He mentioned working at various media posts around the mideast. He lived in Yemen for a while which was "an interesting experience living in such a traditional society".

Yemen was to him what Amish country is to an American.

The professor himself was born in what is now Isreal- meaning that he was Palestinian. And Palestine itsself has a rather stressful relationship with the US. But that doesnt mean every palestinian is out to put a knife to an americans throat.

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25 Apr 2013, 5:07 pm

There was a story in the news a few years back showing a already drunk couple (customers) assaulting a Yemeni Liquor store owner. The customers insulted him for being a foreigner accused him of cheating with the credit cards and then went after him swinging, when he refused to sell them any liquor. It was all on camera. The Yemeni finally bopped the dude on the top of head twice with a aluminum pipe and down the idiot went. Felt bad for the Yemeni. Was just a family man and popular with his customers. He got a lot of support from them after it happened.

Anyway, perhaps Yemeni are moving into that profession as many other immigrants have focused on certain others over the years/centuries.

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