This past week, I have spent a long refreshing week in Dubai on cricket tour. Naturally, the most enjoyable things were the gorgeous weather and incredible sights we saw, both from a cricketing perspective and a touristic one, but there were a couple of other notable (and rather more far-reaching) things that I picked up on. The two main ‘differences’ – if you can call them that – for me personally were the illustration of oppression that was subtly evident and the cultural obscurities, in terms of religion and just general day-to-day life. Now the latter may seem rather bizarre to some. After all, different countries have different ways of life, that is natural is it not? That may be slightly true, but it is our attitude towards these other cultures that fascinates me. I can only speak for myself, but I am pretty confident in saying that many of my peers on the trip will have been somewhat shocked by the cultural abnormalities in Dubai. I certainly was. Therein lies...