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On what Night Phoenix said, I'd say it's more than about the majority in population. It's basically who's in the highest class of society. As far as I know, white people are not the majority on earth, yet if a white person gets abducted in Africa, it's a big deal because she's the minority. Yet, that same white person would get coverage in the US also... because, she's...the majority?
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Except you're ignoring a small, yet important detail. The media coverage that publicizes the Missing White Woman when she is both the minority and the majority is in the Western world. Thus, the majority theory still applies. You could only claim "highest class" if the disproportionate coverage still held true in non-white majority regions. I don't think there would be much coverage of missing American whites in Africa or in the States in Japan news feeds. But I have little experience with non North American news coverage so I cannot definitively say one way or another.
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On a different note, I disagree with how most people use statistics to back up how you're safer on a plane than in a car. Sure, more annual deaths occur in automobile accidents than actual plane crashes. But atleast the car is on the ground, I mean, other than you crashing into shit [which is the basic way to die in a car] you're pretty much safe. If the plane were suddenly turned off or something, you just fall straight down. There's no default safe-mode for a plane once it's in flight, it's just a lot scarier. Plus compare the amount of flights to the overall amount of people driving... BIG fucking difference.
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Now, this is full of logical fallacies. Firstly, the plane falling may be scarier, but does not make inherently more dangerous. If the earth suddenly opened up underneath the I-90, cars would have no "safe-mode", but a plane would be fine. The point is the probability of that event happening (much like a plane being "suddenly turned off or something") is quite small. So it doesn't affect anything, other than being a psychological problem for the traveller. But it does NOT affect safety.
Also, although there are more cars travelling than flights, the safety statistics are usually compiled on the same scale. Thus there are a certain number of deaths/car journeys vs. deaths/identical number of flights.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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