The video we watched in class was filmed in 1937, and was called Air Outpost. This video showed the Sharjah airport in the past and some excerpts of UAE civilization. A lot of people in the film were Arabs and only a few Indian and Iranian traders, and this reflects to us that most of the UAE population were Arabs. The people in the past used to travel by two kinds of animals: camel and donkey or by foot. The occupation in the past was mainly fishing and searching for pearls in the seas, but the film mentioned it was gun running and African slaving. The airport in the film was supervised by the British and the airplane was for the Imperial Airways. The airplane was coming from England and wanted to go to Australia, and it stopped in Sharjah for safety check up or for fuel pumping. Mechanics worked during the night servicing the airplane and also calculating the speed of the wind in order to get the plane ready for departure on the next day.
The second video shows us people dancing in the airport in Dubai. The people in the video are from different kinds of nationalities and cultures, but they get along together and we can see that they are happy. This video also shows us how the UAE has developed from the past to the present, and how it welcomes people from the whole world.
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