Ohood Saif Ichlah, 19, also a UAE national, grew up in the UK. While she says "there's a lot to be said for democracy," she sees Western politicians' constant need to consider whether decisions will win them votes as a disadvantage.
This is not untrue. However, I don't think this is a good enough reason to reject democracy alltogether. The system we have in Britain or France, for example, is far from being ideal, but what we need is more democracy, not less. Incidentally, the idea that humans are not capable of having direct democracy is also used in 'our' countries to allow the government to limit our the people's decision power.
Furthermore, the media, as the BBC does here by pitting 'democracy' and 'Western politicians' against the UAE , often presents the situation as being democracy against no democracy, as if true democracy actually existed at state level anywhere on this globe.
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