There are a couple of factors the author is wrong about.
1-dubai was designed and built to become just a trade/commerce hub of the region in the first place. The economic, immigration and even tax policies are designed to facilitate economic growth, not formation of a culture or anything else. That's what it was made for that's what you see there. Dubai was designed to not have any culture, that's why it was not built on the top of an old arab city with deep cultural roots but instead it was built on the beach of empty desert.
2-those who planned dubai knew that they will have to bring lots of foreign workers to fill the positions that will be created by enormous economy because local people won't work either of not satisfying salaries, lack of expertise or simply laziness. You can't create a culture of you bring thousands of people from different parts of the world to work and create environment that they don't want to have families in there and actually try push them out of the country when you are done.
So let's not act surprised here, it has become what it was meant to be.
2-those who planned dubai knew that they will have to bring lots of foreign workers to fill the positions that will be created by enormous economy because local people won't work either of not satisfying salaries, lack of expertise or simply laziness. You can't create a culture of you bring thousands of people from different parts of the world to work and create environment that they don't want to have families in there and actually try push them out of the country when you are done.
So let's not act surprised here, it has become what it was meant to be.