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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spyglass" data-source="post: 1685266" data-attributes="member: 18470"><p>Well Rick, they had Japanese passports, names like Yamaguchi, Fukuchi, etc, were speaking Japanese among themselves before their checkin, and 2 of the 4 younger exchange students (we have lots of them in my area) had just gotten new cameras, one an Olympus Digital and the other a Nikon D30 (I think.....this was over a yr ago) and were apparently exchanging opinions. Over my many years w/American Airlines, I've had the privilege of meeting at least a couple of folks (and seen passports) from virtually every nation on the globe (except N Korea, Somalia and the tiny Euro protectorates, i.e., Andorra, San Marino & Monaco) and can tell Japanese from Chinese from Koreans and Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodians, Thai, Burmese, Mongolians, Malaysian, Indonesian....et al.</p></blockquote><p></p>