Having been in the industry for more years than I care to mention and having worked all over the place in several countries all i will say is that it doesn't matter where you are in the world there will always be pax that piss you off!
The BIG difference here is that many of these pax are less educated and do not know any better, nor do they mean any harm.
Most of the Indian/ Pakistani pax and SOME Arab pax are labourers ( talking about gulf region here) who work their ass off for 2 years straight, get paid peanuts, are treated like SxxT and are then allowed home for a month or two. SOME of them get drunk on the free booze, not because they have been given too much but because they don't know how to handle it! They give it the "sister sister " bit because they don't know any better. They tug at your uniform because they don't know how to say excuse me!
A lot of the Arab pax are VERY particular because that is THEIR upbringing. This is culture differences and to be honest, whilst I have had many "rude" pax of this ilk, the rudest pax I ever had was a Brit on a charter from LTN who argued with me the whole flight everytime I passed by him, during the service...he was this and that and he would have me sacked and out of the industry forever etc etc....
The reason: our currency conversion was 0.10 more than his!
(For all you young pups out there...treat it as good character building stuff. Don't be so prejudiced. )
I rest my case
