JAL STEWARDESSES' WAYS OF ALIENATION-ANALYSIS 1

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Get on a JAL plane, and find a seat. If you're Korean, there's no need to even look at the seats in front; just go way back near the kitchen area and there will be a seat that matches the number on your ticket. After all the passengers have sat down, and JAL stewardesses carrying three of Japanese newspapers, opened so that the titles show. This is clearly an international airline and flying to Korea with passengers of various nationalities-and there's notone Korean or American paper to be found. The stewardesses slowly walk up and down with the papers opened up against their chests, looking straight at the passengers' faces. During this, they pick out an easy target to make an alien of. This is usually left to the choice of the leaders-the old stewardesses. They are fully aware that if they pick someone near the kitchen area, he is sure to be a Korean. They can, just by looking at our faces, tell for sure who is Korean. The Korean passengers are blinking and looking at others(the Japanese) reading Japanese papers. When Koreans get on a JAL airplane they are always treated like a deserted child. The JAL stewardesses agree on the alien for the day and giggle about him/her; which row, what kind of clothes, hair style, etc.

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