http://www.punkplanet.com/taxonomy/term/466/0 en http://www.punkplanet.com/ipis_dei/blog/rocking_in_the_not_so_free_world <p>A friend of mine -- let's call her Dead Star -- relocated to Dubai several months ago, to live with her dad (an engineer in the ranks of the <a href="http://www.mbc.com.ph/economic_research/mbcrr/no50/default.htm" target="_blank">Overseas Filipino Workforce</a>) and his new girlfriend. </p> <p>Her first weeks in the country left her bored out of her skull, unable to deal with the frustrating mix of large-scale consumption (grandiose shopping malls; opulent luxury resorts) and fundamentalist Islamic cultural practices (getting the stink-eye for her discount-bin <a href="http://www.uta.edu/english/tidwell/JapaneseFashion/JapaneseFashion--Home.htm" target="_blank">harajuku fashion</a>, and dealing with the inconvenience of buying cheap snack food during the <a href="http://www.submission.org/ramadan.html" target="_blank">Ramadan fasting</a>).</p> <p><a href="http://www.punkplanet.com/ipis_dei/blog/rocking_in_the_not_so_free_world">read more</a></p> http://www.punkplanet.com/ipis_dei/blog/rocking_in_the_not_so_free_world#comment cosmopolitanism filipino globalization hardcore islam music punk Thu, 17 May 2007 18:33:18 -0400 ipis dei 1966 at http://www.punkplanet.com