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You got to be a special kind of stupid to speak Arabic in an American airport - especially when you have the ability to speak English.
With the current stage of paranoia, speaking any dialect of any language from Africa and the use of Hebrew would probably garnish nearly the same response.
Well don't worry, most likely before the end of the year we will have a new 9/11 to step back from in this country.
Than people like yourself will look up from your smart phone and say "I can't believe this happened here".
I don't have to look up as I was in Manhattan for 9/11 and I fly so much that I was in the air within hours of the flight ban being lifted after 9/11. I don't give in to paranoia.
With the current stage of paranoia, speaking any dialect of any language from Africa and the use of Hebrew would probably garnish nearly the same response.
Perhaps, but most Hebrew speakers in the US have a markedly different appearance than most Arabic speakers, which might lessen the tendency of others to regard them with suspicion.
Perhaps, but most Hebrew speakers in the US have a markedly different appearance than most Arabic speakers, which might lessen the tendency of others to regard them with suspicion.
Nope, After going through one up against the wall body search at LGA stopping wearing or carrying any religion type of items with any Hebrew no it. Have gotten used to a german sheppard sniffing me before I get on certain flights in the US.
You got to be a special kind of stupid to speak Arabic in an American airport - especially when you have the ability to speak English.
I work at an airport.
Passengers have every right and reason to speak among themselves in whatever language works best for them.
An airport can be a confusing place, with 'hurry up and wait' here, there, and everywhere. It is perfectly normal and expected that people speak among themselves in whatever language best lets them keep their own family or travel party organised and comfortable.
Should we Anglophones be expected to speak French while going through a French airport? Chinese in China?
Do Americans feel compelled to speak Spanish when flying back home from Cancun?
Besides, it is typically the same sort of xenophobic "ugly American" who would get upset over hearing normal Arabic-speaking business travellers talking in their native language, as would get hysterical over some Sikh in a turban speaking Punjabi, or Mediterranean-looking Sardinians or Greeks speaking their own very European languages.
No, nobody should go around presuming to tell fellow passengers where to sit, or otherwise disrupting the standard protocols of orderly business.
Yes, everybody can speak whatever language they like.
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