I was born in 1995, I am from Canada and I didn't remember anything about 9/11 at the time. I'm asking for people who are older, and people who remember it to tell me how much has 9/11 affected the world culturally?
As in style, on TV, the way we view things. Basically how our culture has changed because of 9/11.
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TheAmazingAtheist talked about it once.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya5fAW1_1FA[/media]
I wouldn't know if he's right or not.
Well, from a perspective, it changed the american (or even the world's) concept of enemy.
Before, wars were fought between empires, states, religions and so on. You knew how the enemy looked like, what he believed, why you were fighting.. and you know how to fear somebody who's different.
Terrorism is different. The enemy is no more a nation, empire, group of people.. the enemy can be a citizen of your same state. The enemy is hidden, the enemy might be everyone. The enemy might not have a reason to kill hundreds of people but to provoke fear..
I can't bring toothpaste on the plane
Yeah, security in airports tightened like a virgin asshole
I was in elementary school when it happened. My teachers did not tell us about it, I remember walking in my house and seeing my mom sitting on the couch watching the TV (which she normally did not do that time of day) and she looked worried. So for me it was scary from that moment and for the next few weeks. Back then I thought that America was untouchable, as a kid we were told America is the strongest and the best and nobody would mess with us.
Now sadly it is used as an excuse to allow fear to govern the lives of American citizens. If you ask me every time it is used as an excuse to limit peoples rights/justify hate it is like a slap in the face to all those who lost their lives.
[QUOTE=lapsus_;36538052]Well, from a perspective, it changed the american (or even the world's) concept of enemy.
Before, wars were fought between empires, states, religions and so on. You knew how the enemy looked like, what he believed, why you were fighting.. and you know how to fear somebody who's different.
Terrorism is different. The enemy is no more a nation, empire, group of people.. the enemy can be a citizen of your same state. The enemy is hidden, the enemy might be everyone. The enemy might not have a reason to kill hundreds of people but to provoke fear..[/QUOTE]
Uh, terrorism and guerrilla warfare as we know them have been going on since the end of WWII.
I don't know much about it but I do remember when it happened my whole school had to go home because they thought terrorist planned attacks worldwide that day.
People get paranoid.
I read this pretty interesting article in a magazine that talked about this theory a group of American psychiatrists came up with. Basically they theorized that in the aftermath of 9/11 everyone above a certain age experienced a form of PTSD. Dunno if its true or not but it was interesting to read.
Back in the day, I thought people got too worked up about it, I was partially correct for a 6-year old.
Maybe there will be a squad of heavily-armed air force soldiers on every US passenger plane in a few years, all this paranoia is ripping into the US' psyche, which is what terrorism is about.
[QUOTE=lapsus_;36538052]Well, from a perspective, it changed the american (or even the world's) concept of enemy.
Before, wars were fought between empires, states, religions and so on. You knew how the enemy looked like, what he believed, why you were fighting.. and you know how to fear somebody who's different.
Terrorism is different. The enemy is no more a nation, empire, group of people.. the enemy can be a citizen of your same state. The enemy is hidden, the enemy might be everyone. The enemy might not have a reason to kill hundreds of people but to provoke fear..[/QUOTE]
Have you never heard of the IRA?
I remember seeing it on the news when it happened, I was 8 years old.
I live in England, so to me at the time it was just another thing that was happening in another country that didn't affect me or where I lived at all, I just had a look at the people running in the direction away from all the smoke and stuff while wondering what it would be like to be there, but I had no actual idea what was going on, my family never seemed to bother explaining things like that to me. Then I just wanted to watch some cartoons.
Culturally, I think It's just tightened all airport security everywhere. There was armed security everywhere in the Liverpool John Lennon Airport when I was going for my flight to Turkey in 2006, so that was pretty strange to see since it was the first time I'd ever seen anyone armed right there in front of me.
I remember my History teacher telling us that when it happened, some kid ran in the room shouting "QUICK, COME AND SEE, AMERICA'S BEEN BOMBED!" So he panicked thinking it was going to be World War 3 or something.
My father lost his business because of this tragedy.
They banned an assload of great songs from the radio because of "inappropriate names or themes."
I was in... 4th grade when it happened. We all got sent home early that day, like 10am.
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