I realize sometimes spelling counts,but I think the US guy was just trying to find out if any airline in that region intentionally would not employ people from XX country for political reasons. I think he was really asking where the bulk of the pilots come from.
Flight Officer is a more generic term to mean pilot. It may be used more in North America than other regions. I venture a guess that people not from North America may not realize a few terms that are far from descriptive and have different meanings.
Engineer outside of the US use engineer completely differently than most of the world.
Second Officer in the US means something totally different than most of the Asian countries use.
Flight attendant is used more often than cabin crew depnding on what area of the world one is in.
And ask someone in the US what a BAY is and they'll tell you it is some place you DON'T want to land unless you have a seaplane.
So you guys gotta play together in the sandbox a little better accepting each other.
I think he asked because he was just tryng to figure out the SUPPLY of pilots to certain places in the world. Most places in the world do not have houses on live-on airports, a tremendous supply of pilots banging around in Pipers and Cessnas in high school and colege, and many businessmen with their own airplanes. Hence,his question.