A couple of days back, I was on a queue at the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam when I overheard a conversation between a group of three people that I surmised were traveling together. In summary form, one of them urged the others to stick to the queue that he had taken because the nearby queue had a number of darker skinned people whose documents would be subject to more onerous scrutiny and therefore would slow down the queue.
To my mind, this piece of wisdom shows two things about airport security. The first is that many travellers understand that the perception of danger by travellers is regionally and perhaps racially concentrated as well. The second and most important point is that travellers know that the measures at these borders lead to a waste of time for other travellers.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment