I'm pretty surprised no one has put one of these threads up about tomorrow(9/11/11) and maybe I'm missing it but I figure "General Discussion" is the best place to ask/wonder things.
I got back from my first trip to Europe on 7/31/01. I've been back 3 times since, and to be honest I found the people who were nice before are still nice and the people who were dicks before, to still be dicks. I'm not sure how 9/11 defined us as a country to the rest of the world but people who dislike Americans before, still dislike Americans. Sympathy doesn't give America a blank "moral" check and I don't think it should. What we went through was horrendous but not all that different than what some people go through every day.
I've already edited this thing 4 times to this point because I worry about pissing people off but I think that's, in a way, the point of a travel website as diverse as this. Not to piss people off but to "experience" different points of view than your own. The difference between the person I was the first time I travelled abroad and the second time(after I found this site) is enormous.
I've asked a few non-Americans what 9/11 meant to them and have gotten a variety of answers, most of which toed the line between "Wow, America is seriously vulnerable?!," and "Seriously, America? You thought you were invulnerable??"
Pretty much everyone I've met on this website ranks in the 95 percentile of my favorite people on Earth and I would love to know what you guys think.
--Where were you when it happened?
--Did it or How Did it affect your travel plans/ philosophy?
--How has your life changed since then?
--......the questions are endless?......
I apologize if this thing is like a rant....it kinda is, I just don't know how to, ......well, you probably get it.
9/11..The obvious question(s)
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