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- June 9, 2010, on Foreign Airline Safety versus U.S. Major Airlines:
The US is a little over 4% of the world's population. Can you see how parochial it sounds to speak of the 96% of the world as a single group, inferior in this case, and label them "foreigners". There is a huge range of safety performance of airlines across the globe, including in the USA. I don't feel as safe on an American airline as I do on some Asian, European and my own Australian Qantas. The whole analysis comes across as being in a Xenophobic spirit. The original author's thesis would not have been out of place in the intellectual milieu of master race superiority that lead to Nazi Germany,
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