Sayed Kashua : Airport etiquette, Britain vs. Israel
Talkback
Title:Hmm.
Name:Magnus K
City: TrondheimState: Norway
"A few people applauded and I refrained from joining them, well aware that such an act is a Third World kind of thing."

Well, the writer is oviously lucky (or well off enough) not to have been on a charter tourist flight...

Stupid clapping when the plane touch down, is rather the curse of flying with a bunch of charter tourists, and not really a "Third World" thing...