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Dubai is a melting pot where more than 150 nationalities rub shoulders with one another.

It is one of the very few places on earth where the expats outnumber the locals by a healthy margin. Our of a total population of one million two hundred and forty one thousand in Dubai, only a meager hundred-odd thousand are locals.

In spite of this great diversity, or maybe because of it, there are a lot of below-the-surface psychological problems. Here is an article that states that 35% of schoolchildren suffer from depression!

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