Flying on US-based airlines makes me embarrassed to be an American Before I begin my rant, I'll point out that this isn't even about hambeast passengers. This is about flight attendants, some of whom are so fat that they can't do their jobs properly. There are two aspects to a flight attendant's job: service and safety. Well, I sure as hell wasn't happy about trusting my safety to . But anyways, here goes. So I just got back from a week-long business trip to Japan and on the return flight on Delta Airlines I realized something: I was fucking embarrassed on behalf of my fellow Americans, by the fat flight attendants on this plane where roughly half the passengers were Japanese. There were multiple fatties working the aisles and every single one of them had a shitty attitude, as if they resented us for making them work to serve us (even though they obviously made their own choice to go into a service occupation). I have flown internationally with ANA (Japan's largest airline), Air China, Hainan (also China), EVA (Taiwan) and KLM (Netherlands), and never seen a fatty working for any of them. And guess what, there was never any shitty-attitude service, especially towards foreign guests that speak a different native language. Meanwhile, we had a grand total of TWO flight attendants (out of the 10-12 total) that could speak any Japanese, and - you'll be shocked - neither of them was fat. Seriously, whose brilliant idea was it to have a service crew that can't speak the language of half the passengers on the flight? Can you imagine what people would say if situation was reversed - if the crew on a flight departing from the USA couldn't speak English? One thing I couldn't fail to notice during my trip, service in Japan is amazing no matter where you are, whether it's McDonald's or 7-Eleven or even at a train station ticket booth. Even those that couldn't speak English (a minority, may I add) would try their best to help, whether by using gestures, drawing on a piece of paper, etc. It's just their culture over there that everyone has pride in giving a shit about their jobs and actually trying to do them well. Now, I don't want to give off the impression that all American flight attendants suck. In my experience I have come across lots of great people in every profession that do an exemplary job and deserve to be respected. It's just the fat ones that are always lazy and clumsy, have a shitty unfriendly attitude, and make long flights - which are already uncomfortable - worse. And we have more fat flight attendants in America than anywhere else I've traveled. The saddest thing is that while I was a student my lab actually got a chance to tour Delta's facilities at a major airport and the person we talked to mentioned how competitive the hiring process is for flight attendants. The numbers were something like 70,000 job applications for 500 openings in their latest (at the time) round of hiring. If we're hiring 1 in every 140 applicants and fatties are still slipping through the cracks (heh), we are truly fucked as a country. Okay, that's the end of my rant. tl;dr fat flight attendants suck and we have too many of them in America compared to other countries.