Cheshire the Cat said:
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. <.<
Simple fact, if your god damn country had the same thing happen *lets say instead of America, it was your country* don't you think you would remember the day.
A great loss REMAINS a great loss, and remembrance should be taken on some scale.
Hell, that happened 10 years ago, thats still pretty recent, thus any mourning should keep mourning until the people that lived / people who remember watching it die off, then it will become something similar to the civil war, people remember it, but they take it to there is no mourning to be done, because all has been mourned.
In my opinion, people saying "OH ITS OBSESSIVE, GET OVER IT USA!" Is a different deal, and disrespectful in taste, remembering it once a year is not a bad thing, once a year is not obsessive, it would BE obsessive to have a remembrance page in every newspaper for every day. As pointed out up top, if your country had that happen, a symbol of your countries well being *Trade Center is a example* destroyed without provotion, and thousands of innocent people, just going to work, saw that symbol fall. I almost guarantee a similar thing would happen with your country, mourning would occur.
I am NOT saying that you should not care, but you SHOULD let people mourn as much as they want, saying GET OVER IT is rude and disrespectful for those who have died.
SonicKaos said:
Most people here (Canada) say they remember what they were doing when they heard the news, so I guess people still care about it. I personally have no clue what I was doing at the time, because it wasn't a big deal to me at the time. I mean, I do feel bad for everyone who lost their lives/loved ones, absolutely... but it was 10 years ago, and thousands of people die every day for similar reasons (though smaller incidents).
If someone you knew died personally, then you have every right to make a big deal out of it each year. If not, then by now I think it should be put into the back of our minds. Pay your respects as you will of course, but there is no need to make a huge deal about it on the news and whatnot anymore.
9/11 matters because it was unexpected in that country, but worse things happen every day elsewhere that no one cares about. Not saying it's right, but it's true.
Theres a difference between thousands of people dying, all in different ways, at random, then there is a person plotting the death of thousands, the fall of a symbol to the people, and using planes, full of legal citizens, being rammed into the symbol and at a very political, important place, starting a war, LOSING many because of that war, then the original start being un-warned.
Simply being, YOU DON'T SEE FUCKING COUNTRIES SYMBOL OF PROSPERITY BEING KNOCKED OVER BY PASSENGER PLANES EVERY DAY, DO YOU!
Look, I'm american, and as such, I should at least care about that date in a small significance, but saying "GET OVER IT AMERICA, LOLZ!" Is just disrespectful in a large chunk of ways, you can care as much as you god damn please over seas *or others on this continent* but don't just say get over it, because I bet your country would be doing the same.
*10 years isn't a long time people, remember that.
EDIT: Forgot one thing, this remembrance will probably end now that the man that plotted it is dead. So anyone who doesn't give a shit won't have to hear it anymore. I'm sorry if I was a ass in my original post, but as far as I see, any country, even REMOTELY that cared about its people, would set a official date for mourning.
As I pointed out above, once all that have witnessed it are dead, then the date will become less and less about it, but until then, it will either cease, or continue quietly.
*doesn't mean people won't mourn, but it won't be quite as a huge mourning holiday.*