United Arab Emirates: Orderly — Lines Are Respected.
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Orderly — Lines Are Respected. Queuing is generally respected in the modern, well-organized retail and government infrastructure of Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
United Arab Emirates: Orderly — Lines Are Respected. Queuing is generally respected in the modern, well-organized retail and government infrastructure of Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
In United Arab Emirates, queuing is the norm and generally respected in everyday settings.
Formal contexts tend to be more orderly everywhere, regardless of the destination's general reputation — and where a ticket-number system exists, always take a number rather than relying on a visible physical line.
This reflects general norms across everyday settings — shops, transit, counters — not every specific situation. Formal contexts (banks, government offices, immigration) tend to be more orderly everywhere, regardless of the destination's general reputation, and ticket-number systems where present should always be followed.