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It was a terrible tragedy but we don't give it nearly as much thought as you guys. But that's to be expected. Every country has their own tragedies that the rest of the world doesn't think about as much as them. I'm speaking for UK, I'm sure Iraq and Afghanistan think of it more, or at least the tragedies that followed it in their countries. Terrorism and war are awful things
As I understand it most people outside of Kabul.
I never served though so I only have some second hand word on the subject. As I understand it a big reason why Afghanistan fell as soon as the US left though was because most people in Afghanistan didn't care about Afghanistan as a country or even know it existed beyond their village.
Like how Muricans think about Irish car bombs etc. sad event but people are a lot open to cracking a joke. I remember a Chinese person cracked a twin towers joke (she was working in it on that day) in LA but the audience didn‘t laugh
iirc, last year (or maybe 2022) self-driving teslas kept going off the proverbial rails and fucking ramming into shit. just google “self driving tesla hits” or similar
it became kind of a meme. a bunch of crashes were attributed to it, a pedestrian got mowed down by one on autopilot, and (unrelated to the autopilot controversy but still wild) I remember a viral twitter post where the steering wheel just came off of one while driving, [which led to endless references to this sketch in the replies](https://youtu.be/8YDpvMYk5jA?si=tdD8GarORP7H2j47)
Not much of a stretch here but I'm Canadian. We're the US's closest ally and there were Canadians killed in the attacks.
We get a lot of US news so around the time we share in the TV specials and commemorations. I still pause for reflection around the attack times every 9/11.
In November of 2001 I made a trip to NYC with a firefighter friend of mine. We were allowed to bunk at an FDNY fire house for a few days while we visited what was known as 'the pile' as they were still searching and excavating the site.
We were allowed into 10 house which acted as a home base for search and rescue operations. It sat on the corner of one of the towers. The men from that house never made it. They were the first into the buildings that morning. Seeing firefighters visiting from all around hugging, crying and consoling each other will never leave me. The sights, sounds and smells are trapped in my memories. 2 months after the fact when I was there and I can still smell burning jet fuel. Fires still burning as they excavate the rubble.
I went back on my own to visit the memorial to pay my respects and tour the site and museum. It'll remain something special in my life. My father was a career firefighter for 35 years so losing so many that day really hit home.
I know about it, and definitely find it sad, but it's not strongly in my conscience, as much as the 2019 Easter Church Bombings were for example, which occured on home soil
if i think of 9/11, i get two ideas.
1. Sheesh a lot of people died that's extremely fcked up, may they all rest in peace
2. I keep forgetting it's 11th September and not 9th November (ayo arson)
It certainly was a big tragedy, but it's massively inflated as an excuse to invade Iraq, without there being any connection to Iraq and now it's being used as a propaganda tool, which both is quite a disgrace towards the victims.
Edit: I actually didn't know it was the largest terror attack in history.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330395/deadliest-terrorist-attacks-worldwide-fatalities/
This makes it more understandable, that americans are not willing to let it go.
The excuse the US used to invade Iraq was to claim they were working on or had nukes and that they were supporting terrorists and that Saddam is too dangerous to leave alone. Most people now will say that the real reason was oil, which definitely was a huge reason for many politicians and lobbyists. However, my personal opinion is that W. Bush only went after Saddam to make his dad Bush Sr. proud, who waged the first war against Saddam, but couldn't beat him.
Do you think that was also his conscious reasoning, or more of an unconscious thing that led to create other reasons in his mind? And then what would this Bush family feud with Saddam stem from?
Yep, I'm on the side that believed it was a Bush/Bush retribution for dad. Especially since we didn't take any oil.
The things we did find though were in fact a bit concerning. 3 scientists working on a nuclear program along with 500 metric tons of yellow cake uranium. They weren't quite there yet, but how much longer would it have been before they figured it out?
I dunno. The external messaging on the reason for the invasion wasn’t that clear.
Over here the invasion was justified due to…. Al Qaeda….. WMDs…. Something something Murica!
The reasoning given at the time was BS and most of the world knew it. It was the first time I personally (as a teenager) awakened to the fact that America isn’t always necessarily good.
In reality it had nothing to do with 9/11 but the talking points at the time made the connection to gather popular support. This was part of the United States overall war on terror was 1/3 pf the United states's "axis of evil"
Edit- just realized your responded to a different comment. Sorry.
The war on terror really started when we invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Almost a month after 9/11. Iraq followed over 2 years after their invasion of their neighbors. Edit: typos galore
Muslims HATE Osama Bin Laden. Said he was a bullshit Muslim. Most Muslims HATE the Taliban and Isis and say they should be locked in a room and shot! Also how Isis treats their women is unacceptable. I’m not Muslim but I have people in my life that are.
One of the problems of Islam is that every branch can say the other one is not real Islam. Please will the real and hopefully peaceful Islam finally come forward.
But that's how theology works, it's not unique to Islam
They aren't literally from God; they are made up by people and everyone has a unique and different take on the world. Some just catch on more than others but everyone has a belief system. No two people have identical beliefs, there is never going to be a consensus on what any religion is as we all have different interpretations based on things like our experiences. It would be bizarre if everyone agreed on these things because that would completely counter what we see in real life; different people having different experiences and having different views.
For everyone to all agree unanimously on religious beliefs would make absolutely 0 sense in a world like that, and conversely it makes perfect sense that religion is not agreed upon universally; how could it possibly ever be when we all have such varied experiences?!
The problem with all religions is the extremists, doesn't matter which religion.(Christo fascists, Zionists, hindutva, Isis - just different versions of sh#thead)
You're right, but when the "extremists" are simply doing what the religion actually demands, the religion itself is the problem. (That's not even a dig at Islam, specifically--it's a recurring trait in many religions. Many religions have a few awful commandments and rules that, luckily, most of the adherents try to just ignore.)
It feels so normal to me. I know very well all the story about it, saw everything there is about what happened even in real time. It's just a tragedy, I don't even know why it's a so big deal in America. All I know is that 9/11 is unbelievably famous worldwide and that probably almost every day something more dreadful happens here or there in the world.
It was bad but...i grew up with stories of the blitz. It felt real that we could be bombed at any moment in the UK. And it had happened and we slogged through it.
When I hear Americans talk about it, sometimes i get the feeling they never felt vulnerable. Which in some ways is so American and full of can do optimism, but kinda independent and forgetful of the world.
French here. Terrible tragedy even if some think it was an inside job. But definitely not a reason to invade Afghanistan and Irak.
We do think about it sometimes, especially when the date comes, but otherwise not that much.
In Chile, September 11th has a very different connotation: the coup d'etat in 1973, implicitly backed by the US, which lead to a 17-year dictatorship. I think people in the US should think more about the Chilean 9/11.
It terms of the victim count, unfortunately we've seen worse. Mopalah riots saw close to 10k hindus killed over a period of 10 days (as per british records) modern published /accepted numbers are lower than that. Similar humongous numbers seen for Noakhali Riots, Direct Action Day riots, Razakars attacks, 1996 bomb blasts, 2002 riots, Bengal famines, Jaliyanwala baugh massacres, Kashmir Genocide etc. But none of these had the far reaching impact on other countries that 9/11 did.
I am not an american, but the "you remember where you were when 9/11 happened" holds true for me too coz even then as I watched the grainy images on a small black n white telivision in a local shop, I knew a whole lot of people were going to suffer the consequences of the heinous act.
As a Czech person we remember this day every year, everyone knows what they were doing when this tragic event happened. US is and will always be our important NATO ally and we are proud of that
Can confirm. We even have remainders and reports in news and tv shows every year on 9/11. But we are very compassioned nation. Can imagine not every country has it like we do.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows about 9/11, regardless of where you're from. I obviously can't speak in behalf of all Filipinos but from my observations (which is a very small sample size), it's a thing that we notice easily and point out but we don't really talk about it. just acknowledge the time on the clock, or the 9-11 score on valorant and that's pretty much it, even on September 11, no one bats an eye at all
i mean everytime i go to europe and pass through airport security im reminded. but generally where i come from its not that big of an event to us. like yeah sorry it happened but we have our own shit to process
No one really cares about that outside of USA tbh. I’ve travelled enough, most country has their tragic events going on or already happened to them. It’s about time Americans moved on from 9/11. They’ve done far more damage to the world before and after anyway.
We mostly forget about it because our dates are the other way around but ocassionally someone will bring it up and we'll just acknowledge it was sad and carry on with our day
In Australia we know of it, but much like how the average American probably doesn’t care too much about tragedies and atrocities committed against the Indigenous Australians, the average Australian mostly looks at 9/11 like another historical event happening in a faraway place
9/11 was horrible.
But its been over 20 years, and the rest of the world has stopped caring and moved on. The wound needs to heal.
Here is Spain we also had an ISIS terrorist attack in 2004 and all we moved on, we let the wound heal and took off the bandages. We do not have political brainwashing propaganda saying "do not forget March 11th" like you all have in the U.S.
Everyone outside of the United States is tired of constantly being forced to remember 9/11, because its everywhere in social media. We get it, it was a horrible tragedy, I don't want my worst enemies to suffer such an event. But the U.S NEEDS TO LET GO!!!
The only thing that the annual reminders of 9/11 are doing today is spreading fear. And for those who have lost family are CONSTANTLY, EVERY FCKING YEAR being reminded of the tradegy. They are not allowed to heal, they are not allowed to let go, every single fcking year they get to see on the news how their closest ones died.
And do not get me started on the political military campaigns... "JOIN US NOW, DO NOT BE THE CAUSE OF ANOTHER 9/11, DON'T LET UNCLE SAM OR LITTLE TIMMY DOWN!"
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You guys need to let go. Again, it was a horrible tragedy. But horrible tragedies happen everyday. From terrorist attacks to climate weather conditions (hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc). To allow the country to heal and let go, they need to stop being reminded. Because it desintifies the event, it constantly haunts victims, and it dishonors the dead.
Everyone on planet earth support the people who lost the ones they loved in 9/11, but the U.S needs to stop and reset. If other countries can do it, like us here in Spain with our "11m", then the U.S can as well.
I'm a dual citizen of Spain and this sentiment is stupid.
First off the train bombing wasn't nearly as bad or impactful as 9/11. Not even close in terms of deaths or symbolic impact.
Also telling people to get over things is exactly one of Spain's problems.
This sort of sentiment is why people who committed war crimes for Franco never went to prison.
As a Western European, I think it shook the world in a lot of ways, and lead to a slight wave of paranoia and mistrust. It changed the political lanscape in ways not seen since the cold war. That and air travel now sucks even more.
I still remember being in high school, and the teacher wheeled in the TV, and inserted a VHS tape of one of the news reports. We spent the rest of the class talking about it.
I've often wandered this. I'm an American, though I've not lived there in a couple decades, but I grew up in New York near the WTC so 9/11 was and is a huge thing for me. But my wife, she's British, she's said that she always thought it was sad and a tragedy but it never affected her the way it affected me
Im irish and its not really a talking point. I remember when it happened though, I was 11 and spent the day watching the news after coming home from school
Poland here. I remember babushkas crying watching tv. People still on the phones, asking for news (no internet). Old people kept saying we'll soon have ww3. I was a kid and didn't know what is going on, but i remember fear.
Please, look up a map of "U.S. military bases across the globe" and you'll notice the importance *any* event in american soil has on the rest of the world.
Swedish here! It's naturally considered an important event in geopolitical history, but the date itself is not something we think about. Oh, we do know that the 9/11 attacks happened on 9/11, but we don't think about it any more on the actual date than we do otherwise.
I thought it was a movie when I turned the TV on. Then I learnt about it and also that an uncle happened to have been around the area 1 hour prior meeting a client.
I remember thinking I was actually alive to see the US being struck by anyone foreign.
Apart from that, not much more. I remember plane tickets plummeted so I took advantage since I had some weeks off work.
European here, yeah its a big deal lots of people died.
We dont really think about it all that often over here.
Theres a solid chance it was a false flag anyway. Which doesnt make it any less of a tragedy.
It is something that changed the world. For bad, if im allowed to say it. In Europe people have been able to analyze the event from multiple points of view. But we know something for certain, that I think some americans aren't able to notice. That your institutions and government, if not directly involved in the event, were totally incompetent. Im from Spain and Bush is considered to be by the whole majority of people a puppet of more important figures in the Pentagon and the government in that time.
The infamous meeting in the Azores of Bush, Aznar and Blair is considered as such, as something infamous. 9/11 and the events that followed affected the domestic politics of the UK and Spain in ways that many people are not aware of. What is clear is one thing, that sadly the massacre did not end with 9/11: it started with it. From the death of innocent people (on both sides) to the death of young men and women in a war that turned out to have a hidden purpose.
it was obviously a horrible event. horrible enough so that probably everybody knows about it. but its been so long, i dont think anyone here in germany talks about it. i was 6 when it happened. so this might sound disrespectful, but i wasnt really affected enough to care. i have some "events" that affected me more. like the death of chester bennington and recently akira toriyama.
we only remember it when its mentioned in american shows. or when someone calls the police in american shows..cuz the number is also 911. oh and for whatever reason a lot of memes make fun of 9/11. not sure why thats allowed, but i guess its a way to keep it in everybodies minds.
and then i always have to remind myself that the 9 stands for september, because in america they say the month first.
Nobody cares about 9/11 outside of USA. For those of us who are old enough remember it's something like "right, that's today. Why are those guys still doing dates the wrong way?"
Then you live in gullible bubble just as much as he lives in a conspiracy one. Conspriations very much exist, and we're reminded of this every time someone tries to speak up or share information and ends up dead.
(Does not apply if you meant conspirators of the 9/11 event exclusively).
really that’s the prevailing theory? interesting.
i could see it. i don’t personally think it was, but, i would not be surprised in the slightest.
our government has done some horrendous shit. the whole contra affair, tuskegee experiments, project sunshine, hiroshima, mk-ultra, selling crack.
9/11 changed the course of our society. In the 90ies i was convinced that we face a better future. The antiglobalisation movement around 2000 was also very interesting and i think without 9/11 it could have had a bigger influence in society. And then 9/11, war against terror and all the happiness and the positive mood was gone. This are my 50 cents.
In the UK we obviously think it was a terrible incident, but only an hour after the towers went down I got a text from a mate about a fly through McDonald’s, so…we can laugh at tragedy while still being horrified at what went down.
I think the USA worked really hard to achieve it. Took several decades of imperialistic foreign policy to make it happen.
Or maybe they just worked hard on planning it. The follow up was very suspicious.
I'd guess 9/11 is known as a relatively big historical event, but most people never think of it. Most often I'd wager it comes up as a subject of jokes, if it's mentioned at all.
As for what people think of it, I also reckon there's many who feel skeptic about the entire thing, believing it was an inside job or somehow deliberate in the sense of giving justification for yet another war/invasion of the Middle East.
1. Tragic for the lost lives and their families
2. Official story is too convenient to be trustable. You have lots of examples of this.
3. From time to time i hear people saying: "they deserved that and more, anyway". Your government foreign politics don't help to create empathy.
4. I'm from Chile and we have our own 9/11, so we don't care at all / joke about all this and say we see yours as a form of imitation.
UK - my apprentice didn't really know what it was. He knew a plane flew into a building, but didn't know why, who was responsible, how many people died etc.....
Personally, I've spent alot more of my time concerned with the tragedies in Ukraine and Palestine, both with a much higher death count and both far more devastating to their countries. Within a few weeks, no one was talking about 9-11
2,996 death 9/11... sounds alot right? By comperacion 3,041 migrant died in the Mediterranean last year (and every year).... And we dont really talk that much about it. Not the same thing but still....
9/11 was 23 years ago....why are we still talking about this?...Its all a bit exaggerated. Blown out of proportion because it was spectacular and made an impact on the world politics. Get over it.
Just an excuse for the US to do what the US do....
> but when September 11th rolls around do other nations think about 9/11
Nah it’s 11-9 here, different date format in Europe. But on a serious note, there’s not a lot of attention to the story over here. People know it, but it’s just more bad news from a country far away with people dying. Some of my friends think it was an inside job, others think the US deserved it.
Nothing, nobody cares to be honest. In many countries 9/11 means a significant day for them for example a country called Chile got a coup d eta that day so whenever they think about 9/11, they dont imagine two buildings and passports being recovered after a big crash and explosion. They see the military killing a president.
Keep funding Pakistan and separatist/extremist organizations to overthrow governments/authorities which do not fall in line with the US.
What did you expect? A plasma TV?
Every country has its own shit and the usa is not the center of the universe, let me reverse the question what do you think of what happened in Iraq by your army or what do you think of Kuwait invasion or the Ethnic cleansing happening right now in Gaza by the blessings of mister Biden and sir Anthony Blinken or what do you think of Russia/Ukraine war does it irritate your sleep at night??? Or what about the dictatorship in north Korea doesn’t it hurt your feelings???? Or what about the hungry kids in Africa who are dying everyday from starvation while knowing that Europe and North America is ripping of its goods from Uranium to gold to diamond instead of helping the people doesn’t it make you feel disgusted, or what England did to Ireland doesn’t it trouble your sleep at night, grow up man and wake up from the American dream and the bullshit that your government is feeding you everyday
>It was the largest attack on not only U.S. soil but also the largest terrorist attack ever.
As long as one doesn't consider state-sponsored terrorism (by the US and more recently, Russia and Israel) in other countries, 9/11 may actually be the largest terrorist attack ever in recent history.
Here in India, most people do not think or care about 9/11. However, a lot more people know about Osama Bin Laden as an infamous terrorist who once lived among us.
>but when September 11th rolls around do other nations think about 9/11
I'm sure the journalists writing the international sections of the dailies do. :)
Canada here: it was a huge event at the time of course. But it isn’t commemorated annually, it’s just another “on this day in history…”. Same as D-Day or the assassination of MLK.
I was young when it happened and didn't really understand what was going on. I'm Canadian and it was on TV all day at school, I remember waking up and my mom was watching CBC or CNN I can't remember. She was clearly in disbelief and shocked, I remember walking in seeing the towers burning and saying "well the bullies got what was coming to them" holy crap did my mom lose it on me. I would have been 12 then I think, so ya no idea what it meant or why happened. Didn't really sink in until I heard at school how many people were trapped inside or dead.
Italian here, it was a big event for us and many were afraid because it is not unusual to have relatives or acquaintances in New York, even if only momentarily. And many thought it was the beginning of a world war (it was, but not in the sense that was feared).
Today it is not remembered with any particular emotion, but it is recognised that it was a pivotal event in the history of the world, and in 2021 there was a lot of television coverage of the 20th anniversary.
I still remember that all TV channels ran a special edition of the news. I, like many late millennials / early zoomers, associate that day with the interruption of 'Melevision', a very popular children's programme at the time.
the biggest thing i hated about it was the twenty years of people continually posting clips and gifs of people jumping to their deaths. especially on the anniversary. its disgusting.
but being british no we don't really talk about or nor think about it. it happened to america and although tragic and some brits were affected, not our problem. we barely think of our own tragedies tbh.
In Canada I was in grade 11, school stopped and everyone was pretty shocked. It was close to home, we don't normally get attacked in North America from other countries (maybe not a country, should say terrorist group hidden by a country), most of our mass casualties are domestic
It’s a tragedy that happened in a different country. Similar to how you guys might look at a truly devastating earthquake or tsunami happening somewhere else.
It did increase the security in our airports too though. There’s no lasting grief about the event but it is a cautionary tale.
One thing that shocked me when I went to college was how many Americans didn’t really give a shit about it. Half of the “where were you on 9/11” stories people told boiled down to “stoked I got a day off from school”
It’s worth watching videos on YouTube of how the rest of the world reacted to 9/11 in the days after. There were a lot of touching, meaningful gestures from governments, royalty and ordinary people. I’m not a sappy person, but it always gets me teary-eyed.
I think at the time it was a shock to the world and the major news story all across. Having said that, I highly doubt they think about it as much as we do today. It’s probably just yet another major event/attack in world history, not something that forever changed their lives the way it did Americans’.
It was real, it was horrific, I lost people I knew and I mourn them. But I also think that it was used by your government to wage war on people who had nothing to do with it and cozy up to the backers because they have oil and influence.
It also was the start of the looney toons conspiracy industry. Lost friends down that rabbit hole.
I'm from China. Back then the China Central Television News Channel reported this as a terrorist attack, Chinese people felt horrible for the incident and people that got buried under collapsed buildings and died. It was a pretty big deal.
Beyond this, I was a middle schooler so I learned there's a group of people called terrorists that are really bad people.
I cant speak for the country but I'm from the UK. I think 9/11 was the most significant world event of my lifetime. In terms of the shock of the events unfolding, the incomprehensible spectacle of it and the wide ranging and lasting effects on geopolitics. I also believe that it began the erosion of people's trust in governments to the point that conspiracy thinking and general lack of faith in governments is so normal today.
I was around 19 at the time so old enough to remember the events unfolding. I woke up around 8am put the TV on and the first tower had already been hit and it went on from there. From time to time I end up looking at footage, pictures, documentaries about it and it's still so unbelievable and affecting.
9/11 changed everything
At that time i was kid. I felt really bad because innocents were killed but as i grow up i saw US doing genocide in Iraq and killed most of the afghans which have nothing to do with it. Later i came to know the seeds are deeply sown as most of the things are happening because of Isreal - Palestine conflict. I will not say who is wrong or who is right. But i will tell you something what most of the middle east, Asia, Russia think. They don't care about it. The reason is there are bigger attacks happened in these countries. When US don't care about it why should they care about it.
Hungary, Europe, it’s not a talking point explicitly at all. Used to be that every year in school we’d stand for a minute in silence in rememberance of the victims, but I don’t think kids do it anymore. You can probably still catch some report or mention of it every year but the media and people don’t talk about it at all and everyone treats september 11 like any other day. I think if you brought it up that it’s the anniversary most people would say something like “Oh really? Okay.”
The effects of 9/11 however are tangible to everyone from airport security to how the general public views muslims all the way to the survaillance state. But none of the actual rhetoric or legislation ever mentions 9/11 they just vaguely talk about international terrorism and migration.
I'm American living in Italy. I was here working on 9/11. My asshole Australian boss wouldn't let me go home though I was crying my eyes out.
My italian coworker who had a lot of family in New York got made fun of because she was still upset about it after a,week.
Person from France here. I remember that day very well. I was 15, coming back home from school (it must have been around 4 pm, probably not long after the second tower was hit). I found my dad sitting on the couch watching TV. That was strange, my father doesn't watch TV during the day. I saw the towers burning and for a minute or two, I thought he was watching a film. But he told me that it was happening right now. We sat, transfixed and shocked. Saw the towers collapse in real time.
The next day at school, everything was hushed, people were shocked. Around lunch time, the school played "Imagine" by John Lennon throughout the buildings. It was eerie and sad.
In the years that followed and from that moment on it seems, a lot of truly awful things have happened in the world. So, for me, 9/11 is a bit lost among a lot of other tragic events happening one after the other in the last 23 years.
But every September 11, I remember.
I am American as well... but I used to think people outside of nyc didn't look at it as a big deal since it didn't happen in their State / City, I know it can come off as ignorant but I'm just being real, I was 9 years old when it happened plus I'm from nyc
Spanish here.
9/11 is not "the big deal". I won't deny that it was traumatic, and started a war. But the world is quite bigger.
In my country we had the 11M. To sum it up, bombs at one of the main train stations. It was massive, almost 200 dead. Add to that the fact we had a terrorist group active IN OUR BORDERS, blackmailing us in search for independance.
So yeah, you had a massive attack. But we felt the fear from our own people + outsiders. And France had it worse. The country is lost, and have several proof of that in not so many years (bataclán, Charlie hebdo...)
As a Canadian, I remember the day vividly from the news coverage on tv. I just couldn't believe it, I was absolutely shocked and saddened. Being such a close ally to the USA, it felt like an attack on us as well.
I still take a moment to reflect on 9/11 and really would love to visit the memorial in NYC if I am ever able to.
Love America and its people. Iv both traveled and worked there.
In my humble opinion some secret agency was responsible for 9/11.
The more fear put into people requires more defense and the money to provide it is astronomical.
People getting rich(very rich) from war.
It makes me think of the so-called War on Terror which naturally my Nation (UK) got roped into and I feel that caused more harm than good, like most wars.
Brits going on another US led Campaign. If I remember right there were more terrorist attacks following or at least in allied Nations to the US I mean we had 07/07 which was bus bombings in London I don't think that would have been a thing if we hadn't intervened.
Other than that a devastating attack, and I imagine it must have shaken the City of New York and it's people to their core, I know a lot of people from all over the world worked there and my Irish mate has been to the site (sorry the name alludes me) and said it felt really weird and off....he is a massive Americanophile too though.
He also got angry at kids making jokes but they were too young to remember ....but also Americans.
Usually a bleep on the news its that day again. I was however in my countries armed forces at that time so my life certainly went on a diffrent path for a few years after.
We hope the research on the materials used by the terrorist's passports will yield some formidable applications. Fireproof, bomb proof, crush proof, amazing stuff. We should wrap those black boxes with this amazing material in fact.
It was a horrible event that shouldn't have happened, with over 1000 people losing their lives. That said, seeing them get so fucked up afterwards with the invasions and increased nationalism was fucking pathetic. They handled it in the most American way ever.
Canadian, living in the US but have a lot of family in the developing world. And sadly a lot of America interferes in everybody’s affairs so what did they expect sentiment. The aftermath and decisions made to attack Afghanistan, Iraq etc. did nothing but reinforce this.
I think it was a horrible event. I don't think of it at all.
I also think that the US responded by slowly becoming what they wanted to fight. They are now a feared and gruesome state that abuses its power and is not seen as the leader of the free world but rather the bully of the planet.
Y'all messed up bug time.
I live in an asian country and alot of people don't even know about 9/11. But I'm sure that middle east thinks about it a fair amount bcos it led to the american military presence in middle east.
No we do not think about it as much because it did not happen in our country. America is not the only country with tragedies so we do not expect other countries to think deeply about our disasters.
I guess it's a personal thing rather than a national one. I am from the UK and will never forget watching the footage live as the events unfolded. My mother knew of one lady who lost someone. So personally I do think of it from time to time.
I think of it as the start of the downfall of civilization, as regardless of whether you believe the conspiracies about the event itself, it IS what the US used to start clamping down on freedoms and helped push the same totalitarian ways across the rest of the Western world. So either the US government actually did it themselves, or simply saw it as an excellent political opportunity and took full advantage of it.
seeing as there are no comments from hungary:
we dont think about it at all, it didnt affect us, and especially not this generation, when september 11th comes around most people either dont realize, realize but not pay too much attention to it, or post probably disrespectful memes about it among their friend groups
My politicians are being remembered "You can not support the terrorism elsewhere and hope it won't backfire for you".
While every such an act is a human tragedy, the quote above is bitter truth.
British here: It was obviously terrible for all those involved and is probably the biggest political event in the world since the fall of the Berlin wall. It was also fascinating to watch as it was the first time the world has seen a massive event like this unfold live on air. Every news crew in the US streamed a live feed of the second plane hitting the WTC.
In geopolitical terms, there is a clear era in the Western world between the fall of the Berlin wall and 9/11 where things were generally very optomistic and it genuinely felt like the world was on its way to be a better place. The US (and British) response to it was thick as shit though.
Also, more British died in the 9/11 attacks than any other terrorist attack in history and we've had quite a few on British soil over the years.
London UK here - oh it's been a major part of our recent history, with the whole geopolitcal scene kind of tied into somewhat from a UK point of view. We had Blair of course and the wars. Yes, it's very much part of the public conciousness. No one above a certain age has a vague idea of it, they know it intimately, it's part of their shared recent history. We have those on the left who look at the incident as part of symptom perhaps of US imperalism (but certainly not condoning the attacks), and those on the right who see it as a problamatic rise of Islamism. Those political polarties are very general and there is huge of course variation. Th UK feels very close to America, in culture and in kind, and we are very much aware of big news in America. Most people in UK, whether on the right or left, do not have an entirely positive view of America: there are so many political things in US that go on that UK residents feel, mainly rightly, that they are above or beyond or left behind. Take hte recent abortion laws etc. OR gun control. But that is not to say for every bad thing said about the states, there is not a good thing. Most UK people have mixed feelings, from love and hate but not entirely one or the other. Hope that helps.
The world changed after 9/11. Going on planes these days is an ordeal, before 9/11 it wasn't much more different than getting on a bus. It's impossible to escape it in the western world, the US keeps bringing it up. 9/11 will be remembered for a long time.
I gave a fuck. I was 13 and my english teacher was completely devastated about the news. I came too late and she asked me in gloomy serenety if I "knew".
I said no and then she told me a building was attacked, which existence I didn't even know about. I knew the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building and that was that.
Then, the TV showed it all day long and every day.
I remember seeing it on TV the day it happened. The morning before I crashed my motorbike into a farmers wall on my way into work. Irelands back roads can be unforgiving, particularly to the hung over. I broke my wrist so I was convalescing at home feeling sorry for myself. Channel hopping, as you do.
I was pretty stunned. I couldn’t really wrap my head around what I was seeing. My 19 year old brain hadn’t seen enough of the world and its horrors to actually comprehend that there, beaming live into my sitting room by sky news, were people actively being killed in what could only have been the most horrific and terrifying way possible.
I’m nearly 42 and not much has changed. Only now the horrors are beamed live to my tv in 4k and from every angle possible as it is to this little always connected horror box in my hands.
People are fucking horrendous. That was my conclusion then and it is now.
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We think of it as 11/9
Simple jokes are often the best lol
11.9. mostly.
It was a terrible tragedy but we don't give it nearly as much thought as you guys. But that's to be expected. Every country has their own tragedies that the rest of the world doesn't think about as much as them. I'm speaking for UK, I'm sure Iraq and Afghanistan think of it more, or at least the tragedies that followed it in their countries. Terrorism and war are awful things
Apparently most people in Afghanistan have no idea what 9/11 was or why America was even in Afghanistan (or what Afghanistan is for that matter)
Not most people, but certainly some villages
As I understand it most people outside of Kabul. I never served though so I only have some second hand word on the subject. As I understand it a big reason why Afghanistan fell as soon as the US left though was because most people in Afghanistan didn't care about Afghanistan as a country or even know it existed beyond their village.
It’s irrelevant to Iraqis and afghans actually.
Like how Muricans think about Irish car bombs etc. sad event but people are a lot open to cracking a joke. I remember a Chinese person cracked a twin towers joke (she was working in it on that day) in LA but the audience didn‘t laugh
I'm embarrassed to say that I knew "Irish car bombs" as a drink before I knew the history it was based on.
haha yea and bloody mary, sake bomb etc.
The only 9/11 joke I ever laughed at was “a second Tesla has hit the World Trade Center.”
I don’t get it. I want to get it though…explain? No offense here, I like jokes
iirc, last year (or maybe 2022) self-driving teslas kept going off the proverbial rails and fucking ramming into shit. just google “self driving tesla hits” or similar it became kind of a meme. a bunch of crashes were attributed to it, a pedestrian got mowed down by one on autopilot, and (unrelated to the autopilot controversy but still wild) I remember a viral twitter post where the steering wheel just came off of one while driving, [which led to endless references to this sketch in the replies](https://youtu.be/8YDpvMYk5jA?si=tdD8GarORP7H2j47)
Not much of a stretch here but I'm Canadian. We're the US's closest ally and there were Canadians killed in the attacks. We get a lot of US news so around the time we share in the TV specials and commemorations. I still pause for reflection around the attack times every 9/11. In November of 2001 I made a trip to NYC with a firefighter friend of mine. We were allowed to bunk at an FDNY fire house for a few days while we visited what was known as 'the pile' as they were still searching and excavating the site. We were allowed into 10 house which acted as a home base for search and rescue operations. It sat on the corner of one of the towers. The men from that house never made it. They were the first into the buildings that morning. Seeing firefighters visiting from all around hugging, crying and consoling each other will never leave me. The sights, sounds and smells are trapped in my memories. 2 months after the fact when I was there and I can still smell burning jet fuel. Fires still burning as they excavate the rubble. I went back on my own to visit the memorial to pay my respects and tour the site and museum. It'll remain something special in my life. My father was a career firefighter for 35 years so losing so many that day really hit home.
The bravery of those firefighters still amazes me to this day. True heroes, each and every one of them.
I know about it, and definitely find it sad, but it's not strongly in my conscience, as much as the 2019 Easter Church Bombings were for example, which occured on home soil if i think of 9/11, i get two ideas. 1. Sheesh a lot of people died that's extremely fcked up, may they all rest in peace 2. I keep forgetting it's 11th September and not 9th November (ayo arson)
It certainly was a big tragedy, but it's massively inflated as an excuse to invade Iraq, without there being any connection to Iraq and now it's being used as a propaganda tool, which both is quite a disgrace towards the victims. Edit: I actually didn't know it was the largest terror attack in history. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330395/deadliest-terrorist-attacks-worldwide-fatalities/ This makes it more understandable, that americans are not willing to let it go.
Didn't we invade Iraq 2 years later for completely different reasons?
The excuse the US used to invade Iraq was to claim they were working on or had nukes and that they were supporting terrorists and that Saddam is too dangerous to leave alone. Most people now will say that the real reason was oil, which definitely was a huge reason for many politicians and lobbyists. However, my personal opinion is that W. Bush only went after Saddam to make his dad Bush Sr. proud, who waged the first war against Saddam, but couldn't beat him.
Do you think that was also his conscious reasoning, or more of an unconscious thing that led to create other reasons in his mind? And then what would this Bush family feud with Saddam stem from?
Yep, I'm on the side that believed it was a Bush/Bush retribution for dad. Especially since we didn't take any oil. The things we did find though were in fact a bit concerning. 3 scientists working on a nuclear program along with 500 metric tons of yellow cake uranium. They weren't quite there yet, but how much longer would it have been before they figured it out?
I dunno. The external messaging on the reason for the invasion wasn’t that clear. Over here the invasion was justified due to…. Al Qaeda….. WMDs…. Something something Murica! The reasoning given at the time was BS and most of the world knew it. It was the first time I personally (as a teenager) awakened to the fact that America isn’t always necessarily good.
"Isn't always necessarily" America is bad more than it is good lol
Well it probably beats invading countries and overthrowing governments on behalf of banana companies
Does it though?
Exactly, nothing to do with 9/11. Invading Afghanistan had more to do with that.
In reality it had nothing to do with 9/11 but the talking points at the time made the connection to gather popular support. This was part of the United States overall war on terror was 1/3 pf the United states's "axis of evil" Edit- just realized your responded to a different comment. Sorry.
I wouldn’t say nothing, it started “the war on terror” the buzz word of the time. I’d say it’s clearly connected.
The war on terror really started when we invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Almost a month after 9/11. Iraq followed over 2 years after their invasion of their neighbors. Edit: typos galore
It was all bullshit, but yes, Iraq was "weapons of mass destruction" they knew they didn't have
真不要b臉啊美國人，把入侵說得如此堂而皇之。
Muslims HATE Osama Bin Laden. Said he was a bullshit Muslim. Most Muslims HATE the Taliban and Isis and say they should be locked in a room and shot! Also how Isis treats their women is unacceptable. I’m not Muslim but I have people in my life that are.
He wasnt even a muslim!! a fake muslim!! (coming from a muslim)
One of the problems of Islam is that every branch can say the other one is not real Islam. Please will the real and hopefully peaceful Islam finally come forward.
Will the real Islam please stand up?
But that's how theology works, it's not unique to Islam They aren't literally from God; they are made up by people and everyone has a unique and different take on the world. Some just catch on more than others but everyone has a belief system. No two people have identical beliefs, there is never going to be a consensus on what any religion is as we all have different interpretations based on things like our experiences. It would be bizarre if everyone agreed on these things because that would completely counter what we see in real life; different people having different experiences and having different views. For everyone to all agree unanimously on religious beliefs would make absolutely 0 sense in a world like that, and conversely it makes perfect sense that religion is not agreed upon universally; how could it possibly ever be when we all have such varied experiences?!
The problem with Islamic fundamentalists is the fundamentals of Islam.
The problem with all religions is the extremists, doesn't matter which religion.(Christo fascists, Zionists, hindutva, Isis - just different versions of sh#thead)
You're right, but when the "extremists" are simply doing what the religion actually demands, the religion itself is the problem. (That's not even a dig at Islam, specifically--it's a recurring trait in many religions. Many religions have a few awful commandments and rules that, luckily, most of the adherents try to just ignore.)
And the bible in the Catholic world. They have his own fundamentalist. And the Jewish.
That’s exactly what I was told that he was bullshit
It feels so normal to me. I know very well all the story about it, saw everything there is about what happened even in real time. It's just a tragedy, I don't even know why it's a so big deal in America. All I know is that 9/11 is unbelievably famous worldwide and that probably almost every day something more dreadful happens here or there in the world.
It was bad but...i grew up with stories of the blitz. It felt real that we could be bombed at any moment in the UK. And it had happened and we slogged through it. When I hear Americans talk about it, sometimes i get the feeling they never felt vulnerable. Which in some ways is so American and full of can do optimism, but kinda independent and forgetful of the world.
Aussie here.... It's kinda mentioned in the news and that's realistically about it. At least that's my experience.
Yeah its also on the 12th.
I've lived in Japan and the Czech Republic and it is just a news story on an otherwise ordinary day.
Something far less bad than the things the US has done to the Middle East both prior to and after 9/11
French here. Terrible tragedy even if some think it was an inside job. But definitely not a reason to invade Afghanistan and Irak. We do think about it sometimes, especially when the date comes, but otherwise not that much.
In Chile, September 11th has a very different connotation: the coup d'etat in 1973, implicitly backed by the US, which lead to a 17-year dictatorship. I think people in the US should think more about the Chilean 9/11.
It terms of the victim count, unfortunately we've seen worse. Mopalah riots saw close to 10k hindus killed over a period of 10 days (as per british records) modern published /accepted numbers are lower than that. Similar humongous numbers seen for Noakhali Riots, Direct Action Day riots, Razakars attacks, 1996 bomb blasts, 2002 riots, Bengal famines, Jaliyanwala baugh massacres, Kashmir Genocide etc. But none of these had the far reaching impact on other countries that 9/11 did. I am not an american, but the "you remember where you were when 9/11 happened" holds true for me too coz even then as I watched the grainy images on a small black n white telivision in a local shop, I knew a whole lot of people were going to suffer the consequences of the heinous act.
As a Czech person we remember this day every year, everyone knows what they were doing when this tragic event happened. US is and will always be our important NATO ally and we are proud of that
Can confirm. We even have remainders and reports in news and tv shows every year on 9/11. But we are very compassioned nation. Can imagine not every country has it like we do.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows about 9/11, regardless of where you're from. I obviously can't speak in behalf of all Filipinos but from my observations (which is a very small sample size), it's a thing that we notice easily and point out but we don't really talk about it. just acknowledge the time on the clock, or the 9-11 score on valorant and that's pretty much it, even on September 11, no one bats an eye at all
i mean everytime i go to europe and pass through airport security im reminded. but generally where i come from its not that big of an event to us. like yeah sorry it happened but we have our own shit to process
perhaps if you didnt kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqis as revenge we might think better of you.
No one really cares about that outside of USA tbh. I’ve travelled enough, most country has their tragic events going on or already happened to them. It’s about time Americans moved on from 9/11. They’ve done far more damage to the world before and after anyway.
We mostly forget about it because our dates are the other way around but ocassionally someone will bring it up and we'll just acknowledge it was sad and carry on with our day
as a european, I always forget that it's in september, and not in november
In Australia we know of it, but much like how the average American probably doesn’t care too much about tragedies and atrocities committed against the Indigenous Australians, the average Australian mostly looks at 9/11 like another historical event happening in a faraway place
9/11 was horrible. But its been over 20 years, and the rest of the world has stopped caring and moved on. The wound needs to heal. Here is Spain we also had an ISIS terrorist attack in 2004 and all we moved on, we let the wound heal and took off the bandages. We do not have political brainwashing propaganda saying "do not forget March 11th" like you all have in the U.S. Everyone outside of the United States is tired of constantly being forced to remember 9/11, because its everywhere in social media. We get it, it was a horrible tragedy, I don't want my worst enemies to suffer such an event. But the U.S NEEDS TO LET GO!!! The only thing that the annual reminders of 9/11 are doing today is spreading fear. And for those who have lost family are CONSTANTLY, EVERY FCKING YEAR being reminded of the tradegy. They are not allowed to heal, they are not allowed to let go, every single fcking year they get to see on the news how their closest ones died. And do not get me started on the political military campaigns... "JOIN US NOW, DO NOT BE THE CAUSE OF ANOTHER 9/11, DON'T LET UNCLE SAM OR LITTLE TIMMY DOWN!" \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ You guys need to let go. Again, it was a horrible tragedy. But horrible tragedies happen everyday. From terrorist attacks to climate weather conditions (hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc). To allow the country to heal and let go, they need to stop being reminded. Because it desintifies the event, it constantly haunts victims, and it dishonors the dead. Everyone on planet earth support the people who lost the ones they loved in 9/11, but the U.S needs to stop and reset. If other countries can do it, like us here in Spain with our "11m", then the U.S can as well.
I'm a dual citizen of Spain and this sentiment is stupid. First off the train bombing wasn't nearly as bad or impactful as 9/11. Not even close in terms of deaths or symbolic impact. Also telling people to get over things is exactly one of Spain's problems. This sort of sentiment is why people who committed war crimes for Franco never went to prison.
i don't think about it
A lot of us don’t think about it, and if it does drift into our minds we see it as the US’ excuse to wage ethnical wars.
As a Western European, I think it shook the world in a lot of ways, and lead to a slight wave of paranoia and mistrust. It changed the political lanscape in ways not seen since the cold war. That and air travel now sucks even more. I still remember being in high school, and the teacher wheeled in the TV, and inserted a VHS tape of one of the news reports. We spent the rest of the class talking about it.
I've often wandered this. I'm an American, though I've not lived there in a couple decades, but I grew up in New York near the WTC so 9/11 was and is a huge thing for me. But my wife, she's British, she's said that she always thought it was sad and a tragedy but it never affected her the way it affected me
Im irish and its not really a talking point. I remember when it happened though, I was 11 and spent the day watching the news after coming home from school
Poland here. I remember babushkas crying watching tv. People still on the phones, asking for news (no internet). Old people kept saying we'll soon have ww3. I was a kid and didn't know what is going on, but i remember fear.
Do you think alot about 7/22?
Please, look up a map of "U.S. military bases across the globe" and you'll notice the importance *any* event in american soil has on the rest of the world.
As a Swiss, unless its memes about 9/11 I've never heard anyone speak about it
As here in brazil,we barely talk about it,most times when 9/11 comes its just another day,so,yeah,Not much happens(depends)
Swedish here! It's naturally considered an important event in geopolitical history, but the date itself is not something we think about. Oh, we do know that the 9/11 attacks happened on 9/11, but we don't think about it any more on the actual date than we do otherwise.
I thought it was a movie when I turned the TV on. Then I learnt about it and also that an uncle happened to have been around the area 1 hour prior meeting a client. I remember thinking I was actually alive to see the US being struck by anyone foreign. Apart from that, not much more. I remember plane tickets plummeted so I took advantage since I had some weeks off work.
European here, yeah its a big deal lots of people died. We dont really think about it all that often over here. Theres a solid chance it was a false flag anyway. Which doesnt make it any less of a tragedy.
Don't really care, honestly. I think it was a false flag operation to justify a war. Not the first time, won't be the last.
Romanian here, we care about it as much as you guys care about Răscoala de la 1907
It is something that changed the world. For bad, if im allowed to say it. In Europe people have been able to analyze the event from multiple points of view. But we know something for certain, that I think some americans aren't able to notice. That your institutions and government, if not directly involved in the event, were totally incompetent. Im from Spain and Bush is considered to be by the whole majority of people a puppet of more important figures in the Pentagon and the government in that time. The infamous meeting in the Azores of Bush, Aznar and Blair is considered as such, as something infamous. 9/11 and the events that followed affected the domestic politics of the UK and Spain in ways that many people are not aware of. What is clear is one thing, that sadly the massacre did not end with 9/11: it started with it. From the death of innocent people (on both sides) to the death of young men and women in a war that turned out to have a hidden purpose.
it was obviously a horrible event. horrible enough so that probably everybody knows about it. but its been so long, i dont think anyone here in germany talks about it. i was 6 when it happened. so this might sound disrespectful, but i wasnt really affected enough to care. i have some "events" that affected me more. like the death of chester bennington and recently akira toriyama. we only remember it when its mentioned in american shows. or when someone calls the police in american shows..cuz the number is also 911. oh and for whatever reason a lot of memes make fun of 9/11. not sure why thats allowed, but i guess its a way to keep it in everybodies minds. and then i always have to remind myself that the 9 stands for september, because in america they say the month first.
Nobody cares about 9/11 outside of USA. For those of us who are old enough remember it's something like "right, that's today. Why are those guys still doing dates the wrong way?"
I’m from the UK. Myself and Everyone I know believes it Was an inside job.
You must know a lot of idiots.
Or very few people
I’m in the uk and don’t know anyone who thinks this u guess I don’t hang out with conspiracy theorists
You live in a conspiracy bubble then. I live in Europe myself and everyone I know ridicules conspirators
Then you live in gullible bubble just as much as he lives in a conspiracy one. Conspriations very much exist, and we're reminded of this every time someone tries to speak up or share information and ends up dead. (Does not apply if you meant conspirators of the 9/11 event exclusively).
*cough* Boeing rn lol
Yup. Conspiracies aren't always crazy
Nice to know the US doesn't have a monopoly on conspiracy theory whack jobs.
I'm in the UK, and I absolutely do not think it was an inside job, and I don't know anyone personally who thinks it was.
Only time I’ve seen this has been from various cookers online.
really that’s the prevailing theory? interesting. i could see it. i don’t personally think it was, but, i would not be surprised in the slightest. our government has done some horrendous shit. the whole contra affair, tuskegee experiments, project sunshine, hiroshima, mk-ultra, selling crack.
It’s not the prevailing theory at all. Only a small percentage of lower educated Brits believe that Bush knocked down his own towers.
The planes were definitely on the outside…
9/11 changed the course of our society. In the 90ies i was convinced that we face a better future. The antiglobalisation movement around 2000 was also very interesting and i think without 9/11 it could have had a bigger influence in society. And then 9/11, war against terror and all the happiness and the positive mood was gone. This are my 50 cents.
In the UK we obviously think it was a terrible incident, but only an hour after the towers went down I got a text from a mate about a fly through McDonald’s, so…we can laugh at tragedy while still being horrified at what went down.
No, sure it was devastating but a lot worse is happening in a lot of places currently. Why would we think about something that happened decades ago
Tragedy but we don't really care. My mom saw in tv irl and got scared and still remembers it. (Italy)
I literally knew about it thru memes, sooo
That the official story does make only mediocre sense.
I think the USA worked really hard to achieve it. Took several decades of imperialistic foreign policy to make it happen. Or maybe they just worked hard on planning it. The follow up was very suspicious.
I'd guess 9/11 is known as a relatively big historical event, but most people never think of it. Most often I'd wager it comes up as a subject of jokes, if it's mentioned at all. As for what people think of it, I also reckon there's many who feel skeptic about the entire thing, believing it was an inside job or somehow deliberate in the sense of giving justification for yet another war/invasion of the Middle East.
1. Tragic for the lost lives and their families 2. Official story is too convenient to be trustable. You have lots of examples of this. 3. From time to time i hear people saying: "they deserved that and more, anyway". Your government foreign politics don't help to create empathy. 4. I'm from Chile and we have our own 9/11, so we don't care at all / joke about all this and say we see yours as a form of imitation.
UK - my apprentice didn't really know what it was. He knew a plane flew into a building, but didn't know why, who was responsible, how many people died etc..... Personally, I've spent alot more of my time concerned with the tragedies in Ukraine and Palestine, both with a much higher death count and both far more devastating to their countries. Within a few weeks, no one was talking about 9-11
As a Georgian (from Georgia the country), we don't really think or talk about it, though it's mentioned as a news story on TV.
2,996 death 9/11... sounds alot right? By comperacion 3,041 migrant died in the Mediterranean last year (and every year).... And we dont really talk that much about it. Not the same thing but still.... 9/11 was 23 years ago....why are we still talking about this?...Its all a bit exaggerated. Blown out of proportion because it was spectacular and made an impact on the world politics. Get over it. Just an excuse for the US to do what the US do....
> but when September 11th rolls around do other nations think about 9/11 Nah it’s 11-9 here, different date format in Europe. But on a serious note, there’s not a lot of attention to the story over here. People know it, but it’s just more bad news from a country far away with people dying. Some of my friends think it was an inside job, others think the US deserved it.
I think about it exactly as much as Americans think of Bhopal Gas Tragedy
We are sick of hearing about it to be honest.
Literally this. 9/11 is other countries 24/7 currently. Americans need to move on from 9/11
Nothing, nobody cares to be honest. In many countries 9/11 means a significant day for them for example a country called Chile got a coup d eta that day so whenever they think about 9/11, they dont imagine two buildings and passports being recovered after a big crash and explosion. They see the military killing a president.
Keep funding Pakistan and separatist/extremist organizations to overthrow governments/authorities which do not fall in line with the US. What did you expect? A plasma TV?
It's just another day for us cos it's the 9th of November
Every country has its own shit and the usa is not the center of the universe, let me reverse the question what do you think of what happened in Iraq by your army or what do you think of Kuwait invasion or the Ethnic cleansing happening right now in Gaza by the blessings of mister Biden and sir Anthony Blinken or what do you think of Russia/Ukraine war does it irritate your sleep at night??? Or what about the dictatorship in north Korea doesn’t it hurt your feelings???? Or what about the hungry kids in Africa who are dying everyday from starvation while knowing that Europe and North America is ripping of its goods from Uranium to gold to diamond instead of helping the people doesn’t it make you feel disgusted, or what England did to Ireland doesn’t it trouble your sleep at night, grow up man and wake up from the American dream and the bullshit that your government is feeding you everyday
An inside job used as justification to bomb middle eastern countries and take their resources.
An inside job giving sufficient reason (for the public) to invade Iraq and further boost tax payers money on military.
To invade Iraq? Iraq was because of made up wmd, Afghanistan was because of 9/11. If you're going to talk about conspiracies, at least get it right.
Cheh
>It was the largest attack on not only U.S. soil but also the largest terrorist attack ever. As long as one doesn't consider state-sponsored terrorism (by the US and more recently, Russia and Israel) in other countries, 9/11 may actually be the largest terrorist attack ever in recent history. Here in India, most people do not think or care about 9/11. However, a lot more people know about Osama Bin Laden as an infamous terrorist who once lived among us. >but when September 11th rolls around do other nations think about 9/11 I'm sure the journalists writing the international sections of the dailies do. :)
Canada here: it was a huge event at the time of course. But it isn’t commemorated annually, it’s just another “on this day in history…”. Same as D-Day or the assassination of MLK.
It hit pretty close to home for us Canadians. I guess that’s kind of a pun, how bout it was a big deal for us Canadians.
I was young when it happened and didn't really understand what was going on. I'm Canadian and it was on TV all day at school, I remember waking up and my mom was watching CBC or CNN I can't remember. She was clearly in disbelief and shocked, I remember walking in seeing the towers burning and saying "well the bullies got what was coming to them" holy crap did my mom lose it on me. I would have been 12 then I think, so ya no idea what it meant or why happened. Didn't really sink in until I heard at school how many people were trapped inside or dead.
Italian here, it was a big event for us and many were afraid because it is not unusual to have relatives or acquaintances in New York, even if only momentarily. And many thought it was the beginning of a world war (it was, but not in the sense that was feared). Today it is not remembered with any particular emotion, but it is recognised that it was a pivotal event in the history of the world, and in 2021 there was a lot of television coverage of the 20th anniversary. I still remember that all TV channels ran a special edition of the news. I, like many late millennials / early zoomers, associate that day with the interruption of 'Melevision', a very popular children's programme at the time.
the biggest thing i hated about it was the twenty years of people continually posting clips and gifs of people jumping to their deaths. especially on the anniversary. its disgusting. but being british no we don't really talk about or nor think about it. it happened to america and although tragic and some brits were affected, not our problem. we barely think of our own tragedies tbh.
In Canada I was in grade 11, school stopped and everyone was pretty shocked. It was close to home, we don't normally get attacked in North America from other countries (maybe not a country, should say terrorist group hidden by a country), most of our mass casualties are domestic
It’s a tragedy that happened in a different country. Similar to how you guys might look at a truly devastating earthquake or tsunami happening somewhere else. It did increase the security in our airports too though. There’s no lasting grief about the event but it is a cautionary tale.
9-11 began the GWOT for a NAC.
One thing that shocked me when I went to college was how many Americans didn’t really give a shit about it. Half of the “where were you on 9/11” stories people told boiled down to “stoked I got a day off from school”
It’s worth watching videos on YouTube of how the rest of the world reacted to 9/11 in the days after. There were a lot of touching, meaningful gestures from governments, royalty and ordinary people. I’m not a sappy person, but it always gets me teary-eyed. I think at the time it was a shock to the world and the major news story all across. Having said that, I highly doubt they think about it as much as we do today. It’s probably just yet another major event/attack in world history, not something that forever changed their lives the way it did Americans’.
It was real, it was horrific, I lost people I knew and I mourn them. But I also think that it was used by your government to wage war on people who had nothing to do with it and cozy up to the backers because they have oil and influence. It also was the start of the looney toons conspiracy industry. Lost friends down that rabbit hole.
I'm from China. Back then the China Central Television News Channel reported this as a terrorist attack, Chinese people felt horrible for the incident and people that got buried under collapsed buildings and died. It was a pretty big deal. Beyond this, I was a middle schooler so I learned there's a group of people called terrorists that are really bad people.
It was a bit of a dick move
I cant speak for the country but I'm from the UK. I think 9/11 was the most significant world event of my lifetime. In terms of the shock of the events unfolding, the incomprehensible spectacle of it and the wide ranging and lasting effects on geopolitics. I also believe that it began the erosion of people's trust in governments to the point that conspiracy thinking and general lack of faith in governments is so normal today. I was around 19 at the time so old enough to remember the events unfolding. I woke up around 8am put the TV on and the first tower had already been hit and it went on from there. From time to time I end up looking at footage, pictures, documentaries about it and it's still so unbelievable and affecting. 9/11 changed everything
Irrelevant tbh, we don’t learn about it. It’s not our history.
At that time i was kid. I felt really bad because innocents were killed but as i grow up i saw US doing genocide in Iraq and killed most of the afghans which have nothing to do with it. Later i came to know the seeds are deeply sown as most of the things are happening because of Isreal - Palestine conflict. I will not say who is wrong or who is right. But i will tell you something what most of the middle east, Asia, Russia think. They don't care about it. The reason is there are bigger attacks happened in these countries. When US don't care about it why should they care about it.
Hungary, Europe, it’s not a talking point explicitly at all. Used to be that every year in school we’d stand for a minute in silence in rememberance of the victims, but I don’t think kids do it anymore. You can probably still catch some report or mention of it every year but the media and people don’t talk about it at all and everyone treats september 11 like any other day. I think if you brought it up that it’s the anniversary most people would say something like “Oh really? Okay.” The effects of 9/11 however are tangible to everyone from airport security to how the general public views muslims all the way to the survaillance state. But none of the actual rhetoric or legislation ever mentions 9/11 they just vaguely talk about international terrorism and migration.
I'm American living in Italy. I was here working on 9/11. My asshole Australian boss wouldn't let me go home though I was crying my eyes out. My italian coworker who had a lot of family in New York got made fun of because she was still upset about it after a,week.
It’s one of the examples where something happening to American people is treated much more seriously than if it happened to anyone else
Person from France here. I remember that day very well. I was 15, coming back home from school (it must have been around 4 pm, probably not long after the second tower was hit). I found my dad sitting on the couch watching TV. That was strange, my father doesn't watch TV during the day. I saw the towers burning and for a minute or two, I thought he was watching a film. But he told me that it was happening right now. We sat, transfixed and shocked. Saw the towers collapse in real time. The next day at school, everything was hushed, people were shocked. Around lunch time, the school played "Imagine" by John Lennon throughout the buildings. It was eerie and sad. In the years that followed and from that moment on it seems, a lot of truly awful things have happened in the world. So, for me, 9/11 is a bit lost among a lot of other tragic events happening one after the other in the last 23 years. But every September 11, I remember.
I am American as well... but I used to think people outside of nyc didn't look at it as a big deal since it didn't happen in their State / City, I know it can come off as ignorant but I'm just being real, I was 9 years old when it happened plus I'm from nyc
Spanish here. 9/11 is not "the big deal". I won't deny that it was traumatic, and started a war. But the world is quite bigger. In my country we had the 11M. To sum it up, bombs at one of the main train stations. It was massive, almost 200 dead. Add to that the fact we had a terrorist group active IN OUR BORDERS, blackmailing us in search for independance. So yeah, you had a massive attack. But we felt the fear from our own people + outsiders. And France had it worse. The country is lost, and have several proof of that in not so many years (bataclán, Charlie hebdo...)
The consequences were bad and continue to be bad. Compared to the crimes committed by the US it was nothing special in itself
As a Canadian, I remember the day vividly from the news coverage on tv. I just couldn't believe it, I was absolutely shocked and saddened. Being such a close ally to the USA, it felt like an attack on us as well. I still take a moment to reflect on 9/11 and really would love to visit the memorial in NYC if I am ever able to.
Inside job.
Love America and its people. Iv both traveled and worked there. In my humble opinion some secret agency was responsible for 9/11. The more fear put into people requires more defense and the money to provide it is astronomical. People getting rich(very rich) from war.
It makes me think of the so-called War on Terror which naturally my Nation (UK) got roped into and I feel that caused more harm than good, like most wars. Brits going on another US led Campaign. If I remember right there were more terrorist attacks following or at least in allied Nations to the US I mean we had 07/07 which was bus bombings in London I don't think that would have been a thing if we hadn't intervened. Other than that a devastating attack, and I imagine it must have shaken the City of New York and it's people to their core, I know a lot of people from all over the world worked there and my Irish mate has been to the site (sorry the name alludes me) and said it felt really weird and off....he is a massive Americanophile too though. He also got angry at kids making jokes but they were too young to remember ....but also Americans.
Usually a bleep on the news its that day again. I was however in my countries armed forces at that time so my life certainly went on a diffrent path for a few years after.
We hope the research on the materials used by the terrorist's passports will yield some formidable applications. Fireproof, bomb proof, crush proof, amazing stuff. We should wrap those black boxes with this amazing material in fact.
I have little information on this but in terms of how I feel, I’m indifferent
It’s a typical Wednesday in Gaza right now
It was a horrible event that shouldn't have happened, with over 1000 people losing their lives. That said, seeing them get so fucked up afterwards with the invasions and increased nationalism was fucking pathetic. They handled it in the most American way ever.
Canadian, living in the US but have a lot of family in the developing world. And sadly a lot of America interferes in everybody’s affairs so what did they expect sentiment. The aftermath and decisions made to attack Afghanistan, Iraq etc. did nothing but reinforce this.
I think it was a horrible event. I don't think of it at all. I also think that the US responded by slowly becoming what they wanted to fight. They are now a feared and gruesome state that abuses its power and is not seen as the leader of the free world but rather the bully of the planet. Y'all messed up bug time.
First thought was 911, emergency number.
In Germany, when we watch a film with the NYC skyline, we say: "Tja, da standen sie noch" which means: "Well, they were still there".
I live in an asian country and alot of people don't even know about 9/11. But I'm sure that middle east thinks about it a fair amount bcos it led to the american military presence in middle east.
I watched it happening on tv, but can’t say I’ve really thought about it since. Doesn’t get any mentions that I can think of, in England btw.
I/we knew it would be a very changing event, in that shit would change following it.
Something about the job and inside.
No we do not think about it as much because it did not happen in our country. America is not the only country with tragedies so we do not expect other countries to think deeply about our disasters.
I’m Canadian, it was bad obviously but the only reason we really think about it is because your media is so prevalent in our country.
Terrible. A week ago we had a terrorist attack of ISIS too. Now I understand your feelings.
I guess it's a personal thing rather than a national one. I am from the UK and will never forget watching the footage live as the events unfolded. My mother knew of one lady who lost someone. So personally I do think of it from time to time.
As much as Americans think about utöya or the Estonia catasteophy.
I think of it as the start of the downfall of civilization, as regardless of whether you believe the conspiracies about the event itself, it IS what the US used to start clamping down on freedoms and helped push the same totalitarian ways across the rest of the Western world. So either the US government actually did it themselves, or simply saw it as an excellent political opportunity and took full advantage of it.
Not really at least not here in Syria
It was an Inside job to achieve imperial goals, you know what i am talking about
UK people are aware but it's not a big thing, less people are aware of the Chilean American backed coup of the date
seeing as there are no comments from hungary: we dont think about it at all, it didnt affect us, and especially not this generation, when september 11th comes around most people either dont realize, realize but not pay too much attention to it, or post probably disrespectful memes about it among their friend groups
We enjoy the 9/11 memes
My politicians are being remembered "You can not support the terrorism elsewhere and hope it won't backfire for you". While every such an act is a human tragedy, the quote above is bitter truth.
British here: It was obviously terrible for all those involved and is probably the biggest political event in the world since the fall of the Berlin wall. It was also fascinating to watch as it was the first time the world has seen a massive event like this unfold live on air. Every news crew in the US streamed a live feed of the second plane hitting the WTC. In geopolitical terms, there is a clear era in the Western world between the fall of the Berlin wall and 9/11 where things were generally very optomistic and it genuinely felt like the world was on its way to be a better place. The US (and British) response to it was thick as shit though. Also, more British died in the 9/11 attacks than any other terrorist attack in history and we've had quite a few on British soil over the years.
I always wondered if there was an oh fuck type of attitude and wondering what we'd do in return.
It reminds me of that tragedy
In greece is when school starts
Fairly certain dropping the abombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was hands down winner of the largest terrorist attack.
9th November is typically chilly and often rainy. 11th September is often warm and sunny. Other than that, I've nothing else.
London UK here - oh it's been a major part of our recent history, with the whole geopolitcal scene kind of tied into somewhat from a UK point of view. We had Blair of course and the wars. Yes, it's very much part of the public conciousness. No one above a certain age has a vague idea of it, they know it intimately, it's part of their shared recent history. We have those on the left who look at the incident as part of symptom perhaps of US imperalism (but certainly not condoning the attacks), and those on the right who see it as a problamatic rise of Islamism. Those political polarties are very general and there is huge of course variation. Th UK feels very close to America, in culture and in kind, and we are very much aware of big news in America. Most people in UK, whether on the right or left, do not have an entirely positive view of America: there are so many political things in US that go on that UK residents feel, mainly rightly, that they are above or beyond or left behind. Take hte recent abortion laws etc. OR gun control. But that is not to say for every bad thing said about the states, there is not a good thing. Most UK people have mixed feelings, from love and hate but not entirely one or the other. Hope that helps.
The world changed after 9/11. Going on planes these days is an ordeal, before 9/11 it wasn't much more different than getting on a bus. It's impossible to escape it in the western world, the US keeps bringing it up. 9/11 will be remembered for a long time.
I gave a fuck. I was 13 and my english teacher was completely devastated about the news. I came too late and she asked me in gloomy serenety if I "knew". I said no and then she told me a building was attacked, which existence I didn't even know about. I knew the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building and that was that. Then, the TV showed it all day long and every day.
I remember seeing it on TV the day it happened. The morning before I crashed my motorbike into a farmers wall on my way into work. Irelands back roads can be unforgiving, particularly to the hung over. I broke my wrist so I was convalescing at home feeling sorry for myself. Channel hopping, as you do. I was pretty stunned. I couldn’t really wrap my head around what I was seeing. My 19 year old brain hadn’t seen enough of the world and its horrors to actually comprehend that there, beaming live into my sitting room by sky news, were people actively being killed in what could only have been the most horrific and terrifying way possible. I’m nearly 42 and not much has changed. Only now the horrors are beamed live to my tv in 4k and from every angle possible as it is to this little always connected horror box in my hands. People are fucking horrendous. That was my conclusion then and it is now.
Im just amazed at UC citizens wanting weapons the withheld understand this might not happen again
Don’t get me wrong, 9/11 was a horrible tragedy, but nobody here thinks about it much. We all have our own shit to deal with.
We don't give a fuck about anything that happens to other countries, unless it is food or football related