Monday, September 15, 2008
Travelling from Tokyo to Los Angeles, I have basically gone back 16 hours in time. Unfortunately the world does not stop during the 10 hours you spend in the air, thus it is not such a great deal. However, if I were told that I only have one more day left to live, taking a short flight across the international dateline would not be a bad idea.
Yet again I got stuck on an old Korean Air plane, and there were no attractive stewardesses around to steal my attention away from the ugly brown seats. Wine is served in glass cups (you don't get the small fancy bottles), and today I also realized that the airline is practising racial profiling. Just because I am Caucasian in appearance, the stewardesses automatically addressed me in English. While you may argue that this is a reasonable assumption to make, the airlines are not allowed to apply similar profiling in the airport security checks (thereby having to frisk old Chinese grandmothers as carefully as young males). In order to have consistency in logic, I suggest that Korean Airlines starts addressing passengers in completely random languages until the passenger has stated a preferred language. By following such a procedure, the airline will avoid the risk of offending for example black or white passengers by assuming that they are not Korean simply because their appearance is somewhat atypical for a Korean. This idea is so stupid I kind of like it.
Yet again I got stuck on an old Korean Air plane, and there were no attractive stewardesses around to steal my attention away from the ugly brown seats. Wine is served in glass cups (you don't get the small fancy bottles), and today I also realized that the airline is practising racial profiling. Just because I am Caucasian in appearance, the stewardesses automatically addressed me in English. While you may argue that this is a reasonable assumption to make, the airlines are not allowed to apply similar profiling in the airport security checks (thereby having to frisk old Chinese grandmothers as carefully as young males). In order to have consistency in logic, I suggest that Korean Airlines starts addressing passengers in completely random languages until the passenger has stated a preferred language. By following such a procedure, the airline will avoid the risk of offending for example black or white passengers by assuming that they are not Korean simply because their appearance is somewhat atypical for a Korean. This idea is so stupid I kind of like it.
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