How is 9/11 viewed internationally?

[Fergi]

Australia
an anoyance hearing over and over again about it
it was sad
i pay my respects to the people who died
but that was 10 danm years ago

 

[tthor]

Well most people I talk to here (Canada) generally view it the same as the people in the US do, but not as much of the conspiracy theories lurking about in the background.

oh dear god, the conspiracy theories.. my ex's father was a 9-11 conspiracy theorist, and apparently even wrote a book on it.. theres too much stupid in the world for me to deal with x_x

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

While I cannot bear watching the events without tears and nausea still, The one single event in my mind that stands out like a beacon, was when I heard of what happened on flight 93. When the passangers had communications of what was happening, they refused to allow themselves to be used as a weapon to kill others and crashed the plane. There was a great lesson to be learned from those brave souls. They set an example for mankind to not allow our spirits to be conquered. Evil can take your life, but not your spirit if you refuse to allow it to.

 

[orangeban]

It's a pretty big deal here in the UK. There's a lot of documentaries about how the world changed. And we're sorta bitter about how we got dragged into your "war on terror"

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

As for how it is viewed Globally, I think that would entirely depend on who you ask, as no one can speak for an entire people. Considering the many nations who stepped up and sent their brave into battle for it, I believe there were more affected than the few on here realize. There were people of many nations killed in the World trade center, not just Americans. NZ went to war as well, I am sure those who were there might have felt different than those who did not.

Many of those who show indifference to tragedies, not just this one, will hopefully learn compassion and understanding in their path through this life.

 

[FamoFunk]

I always remember it and think about it when the time comes around (UK, btw)

Regardless of what people think; three thousand innocent people lost their lives that day.

 

[tthor]

One thing I'd like to note, a lot of people seem to be saying that 'ya, people died, move on.' but I think thats missing the point. What made 9-11 such a big deal was not simply that people died, but the fact that an attack was made on a modern first-world country, resulting in thousands of deaths. It was a big reminder for many people that war and major attacks like this can happen at home, and not just in some distant 3rd-world country or something.

Tho personally I was never all that affected by 9-11 (US citizen), and i do feel that it does get a bit overblown

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Eh. A bunch of people died, which is bad, but... get over it. Many more people die every day without any kind of fanfare, stop making such a big deal about it.

lol almost exactly the kind of post i was refering to

 

[squeekenator]

Eh. A bunch of people died, which is bad, but... get over it. Many more people die every day without any kind of fanfare, stop making such a big deal about it.

 

[VladBlok28]

Being American, the 9/11 attack is a big-ish deal, especially with the buzz going around about the 10th anniversary.
However, I have no idea how other country's view it, and am wondering how you see it? Do you remember it, or recognize the day? Has it affected you guys too?

Sorry if I sound really American, but these are honest questions.

I find it VERY VERY distasteful and hypocritical, America, that you start wars all over the world, you killed God knows how many people, destroyed God knows how many lives with your foreign policy that in its evilness is only second to Nazi Germany, and yet you glorify one single attack with barely 3000 victims to the point where i want to throw up.

What, your lives are somehow more important than anyone else's? I don't think so.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

I sure remember it, i was 16 and for some reason didnt have to go to school, or i was "sick" at home i dont know anymore. Well whyever i was home i could watch the whole events from the beginning on TV. The confusion and lack of information when it started and the live footage of plane 2 crashing and later the buildings collapsing.
my brother was still living in my parents house and so we watched it together ,but got bored pretty quick, we had a beer and after several hours our main problem was that due to the round-the-clock report on every channel they didnt show the simpsons like everyday. i was pretty pissed because of this. Dont want to be insensitive, but foreign people dying in far away countries is 50% of everydays news. It was pretty clear some big consequences would follow, but honestly we didnt care much about the event itself, we actually were pretty psyched that some interesting change might happen to the world.

 

[Silva]

It's viewed as less of an event here in Australia than it is in the United States, I would wager. Our politicians like to talk about it a lot more than the average person does.

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

a waste of life through terrorism is a terrible thing.

but it feels like the American people think the Sept 11th attacks are the first ever terrorist attacks to ever happen.

IRA attacks in the UK went on for decades before 2001.
the world is full genocide, murder and terrorist acts; as a nation move on, as for individuals who may have lost family members to the attacks, you have my deepest sympathies

 

[MorphingDragon]

NZ. Not cared about in the slightest. In fact[footnote]Though to be fair this is just from people I have spoken to about it.[/footnote] people find it distasteful that americans still go on and on about it like it was such a big thing. And the whole "They attacked us!" is disgusting.

Simple fact is this, unless you actually lost a family member in the attack then you really need to stfu about it and stop acting as if it had anything to do with you.

Oh and internationally its viewed 11/9. <.<

So because people don't know any of the 3000+ people killed, they shouldn't care and feel bad for those that lost their lives? I find it pretty distasteful that you don't think it wasn't a big deal considering it was a LOT of civilian deaths. Not trying to give you "This is 'Merica!" speech but seriously dude.

A lot of people were affected by it in a lot of emotional ways regardless of knowing any of the victims just like how Pearl Harbor affected the people that were alive when that happened. I'm sure other people feel the same for tragic attacks in their country as well.

Dear Lord. Now you're bringing up Pearl Harbour? Why not August the 6th 1945? What happened on September 11th was not "an attack" like any in war, it was a criminal action perpetrated by some nasty deranged bastards. Thats it. In that case, why not the Oklahoma City bombings if that's the specific field of study? No? Though I'm not saying the world should hold barn dances specifically on September 11th we should not all have to torture ourselves over it forever. Life goes on. Its overuse in U.S. politics as almost a catchphrase is sickening. There is bad shit happening in the world TODAY lets focus on that now shall we?

It was an example to get my point across...

Way to completely ignore the rest of my post and attack me on one little thing I brought up to make my point. It was a major attack, it wasn't a dozen people like 24 it was over 3000 people. Life does go on and I have already done that and I don't try and shove 9/11 down people's throats.

But to actually say it wasn't a big deal at all is a lie because it was, and not just for Americans. Just like the tsunami and earthquake that devastated Japan. I think I'm done pretty much in this thread, I've explained my views and defended them and there is nothing else to say. I'm not going to go pray for an hour but I do remember it.

I'm not insulting anyone and I don't mind if people don't take it as anything important to them personally because that is their right and it wasn't something the whole world should have to care about. I know on the internet it is popular to bash America but I'm sure there was a lot of people from different countries that had plenty of sympathy for the attacks on that day just like I had sympathy for the attacks in India. I felt bad for the people that were killed during the riots that happened this year and especially the earthquake/tsunami that happened to Japan.

All I was trying to do was make my point that it was kind of a big deal at the time and that it isn't wrong for Americans to care about the incident even though they didn't have personal loved ones killed. I'm listening to Daft Punk so nothing can put me in a bad mood by the way.

I think you misunderstand the opposition. People overseas AGREE that it was an important event in History, but we're turned off and even aggravated by your almost religious fascination with the event and how you've literally let your culture come to a grinding standstill over your obsession over it.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

I share basic sympathies for those whom lost someone in the 9/11 attack, but nothing much further than that, due to being a Canadian - and henceforth, a citizen of another nation. While I can understand the sentiments about 9/11, I do believe it is very much overblown, and that particular Neo-Conservative Patriotism that reeks from the most vocal of American citizens ("HUR HUR GREATEST COUNTRY IN WORLD", "GOD FAVORS AMERICA", "LAND OF UNPARALLELED FREEDOM/LIBERTY", etc) that unfortunately latches onto the event of 9/11 for political and economic points with the American people is just downright annoying.

Yes, you got unexpectedly attacked on your own soil by a foreign enemy (not government or nation), and thousands of innocent lives were lost to prove a point (American soil/citizens were no longer invulnerable to the realities of outside warfare and conflict/terrorism created by their own governments of past). I have no issue with American's mourning the death's of those lost that day to extremists. But, would it hurt to just.. tone it down a bit? That's all I ask.

Also, it is a little hard to feel complete sympathy for one side alone when hundreds of thousands of innocents whom were in no way linked to the event of 9/11 are now dead due to an invasion of their homeland by the paranoia, anger and fear (a need for a scapegoat) that followed..

 

[Wolvaroo]

Canadian here. I remember most of the day it happened. At the time I thought "It's about time someone stuck it to them". I remember at the time I was still infuriated over the soft wood lumber fiasco.

10 years later I think I still feel the same way. The entire world has been putting up with the USA's shit for so long it was bound to happen, as I'm sure it will continue to until they get their fingers our of everyone else's pie.

The true tragedy surrounding the event are the civilians and soldiers killed or wounded during the subsequent meaningless wars.

It was a big reminder for many people that war and major attacks like this can happen at home, and not just in some distant 3rd-world country or something.

This right here is the attitude that squashes even the slightest chance of me giving a fuck. It's the idea that many Americans think it's fine if this sort of thing happened in a "third-world country".

 

[holy_secret]

No one really cares where I'm from (Sweden).
As far as how it affected me, I am pretty sure that's where the point where the united states went from the land of dreams to the country everybody loves to hate.

Everyone loved the states when I was a kid.

 

[minimacker]

I don't know. I feel the tragedy, but it seems a bit too overbloated.
Censoring and editing older movies that were made many years before it happened, because they had a glimpse of the twin towers sort of bugs me.

 

[The_General]

I view it as an orchestrated attempt at getting casus bellum for taking away civil rights and starting a few profitable wars, but that's far from being the general consent, despite all the science having been done. What has the media done to us?

 

[Knusper]

In the UK, I think the politicians and media have been making a bigger deal out of it than anyone else. The BBC has been showing archive footage, interviews and live feeds for the past week and politicians have been racing to be interviewed on their thoughts of how it changed the world.

That's not to say that it isn't thought of as a big deal here in the UK, I'm fairly sure that it killed more British people than any other terrorist attack and it's (understandably) considered more horrifying than the 7/7 bombings in London, it's just I don't think that comparatively we make nearly as much of a deal about it.

 

[Deadyawn]

Well I wasn't terribly aware of current affairs at the time. While I can see that it was bad, whenever people die it's bad, I am getting a bit sick of the media milking every last cent out of it. It would be best if we could just remember what happened, honour the dead and move on.