George Saunders’ “The New Mecca” The Gap between Reality...

Tasfia Kamal 11/21/13 Professor Walker Communication Skills George Saunders’ â€Å"The New Mecca†: The Gap between Reality and Conceptuality â€Å"The New Mecca† is an essay in which author George Saunders engraves different experiences he had throughout his Dubai trip. In the beginning he tells the readers that everything they are going to assume about Dubai is going to be wrong unless they see Dubai by themselves first. He†¦show more content†¦Throughout the author’s journey in Dubai, he got to meet a lot of lower class people who have been working there for years. He got to talk to them and ask them personal questions to get to know them better. He came across people who originated there years ago with hopes and dreams of improving their lifestyle. They have been working hard ever since. The author tells the readers that sometimes these employees get their passport taken away by the people they work for. They work almost twenty four hours every week since they arrived here. Although, they don’t even get paid enough. They have been treated horribly. However these people don’t tend to be bothered by this at all. They assumes that they would have worse life if they there were back in home. When the author was talking to the Kenyan security guard who works fourteen hours a day he realized that these people don’t understand that they are not being treated the way they are supposed to. The author asked a waiter about when he wants to get married and when he wants to go back to is country. The waiter replied that we will earn more money and then he’d like to go back to get married. These people are needy. So they come here with the hope of having a better life. As they don’t know their rights and they come from worse environment, they upper class people take advantage of it by treating them poorly. Then these lower class suffe ring people do not recognize this for