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Culture Shock: ‘Downton Abbey’ Illustrates Similarities to Lives of Gulf Aristocrats Today. So Does 'The Help'
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Culture Shock: ‘Downton Abbey’ Illustrates Similarities to Lives of Gulf Aristocrats Today. So Does 'The Help'

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Culture Shock: ‘Downton Abbey’ Illustrates Similarities to Lives of Gulf Aristocrats Today. So Does 'The Help'
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Watching the “Downton Abbey” television series, seeing the movie in 2019, and attending the Downton Abbey exhibition in New York City, I was, surprisingly, reminded of the lives of my wealthiest and best-connected Arab students in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. They live like royalty,

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