I think, in the case of the NW incident, the guy's "goose is cooked" because he's admitted in a statement that he touched the girl. Whether he felt it was appropriate or not is not really the issue. He supposedly said the flight was experiencing some severe turbulence and he touched her on the upper thigh to "reassure her." Come on. Cultural diversity or not, there is no excuse for that. The guy was from India. Maybe that's appropriate behavior in India, but it isn't in the U.S. He should have been practicing the "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" approach to living in a foreign country.
Call me a bigot if you wish, but IMHO, that's part of the problem with this massive influx of unbridled immigration in the last few years. We're supposed to accept everything as part of "cultural diversity." Give me a break. I think there was a case in Ohio a few years ago of the local community voicing outrage over some African immigrants practicing genitial circumcision on their young females because, after all, that's accepted practice in their "mother country." To what extent do we have to accomodate "cultural diversity"?
[ 10 August 2001: Message edited by: ONTpax ]