Sunday, September 16, 2007
9/11 and Affects
When an American thinks of September 11, 2001 they think of this huge tragedy in the US, around 3,000 innocent people dying, and the gateway to this huge war going on in Iraq right now. But for a 16 year-old in Seychelles 9/11 may mean nothing to him. It's just funny how the biggest things for us can be nothing to someone half-way across the world, but if your the same age as someone how ones lives can be so different. Just for me realizing how narrow minded I am and that life for me reallyl almost does revolve around the northshore where if you go 20 miles to the south side of Chicago a 16 year-olds life and yours could be totally different. For example a sterotype for girls on the North Shore, the big worry for them in a day is whichc desighner jeans to wear in the mornign or if they will get a car for there 16th birthday. Where a girl 20 miles away or biggest worry for the day is to not get shot or hope to not be pregnant. I just think it's weird how all around the world or even something so close to home all of our lives are so different or something so big to us could be something so minute or never even heard of in some place across the world.
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I really liked the message of your post. Not only did you talk about 9/11 but you compared it to a situation that most of us can relate to, some way or another. I completely agree that where people live, and the area they are raised in, really impacts not only their views, but also how they see things in the world. I believe this also relates to the project we did the other day with the survey from different countries. Ideas varry from place to place, just like the idea that Americans belive differently on issues than maybe Asians, or the middle easterns. But one thing i do disagree on is your idea that the terrorist attacks didn't affect the whole world. I think that even though differnt issues effect peoples and races differently, something as big as the 9/11 attacks, really did shake the entre world. Thats why I think it was such a big deal. It wasn't just that a bunch of guys ran an airplane into a stupid building, it was so much more than that. It affected everyone evenly. Don't you agree?
mark i agree and also find the subject of your blog quite interesting. I this was an important issue while we were participating in harper leadership. The kids we hung out with every week from Harper Highschool lived in the same general Chicagoland area and were soooo different. But also, we found many similarities and I think it is important to focus on the things we have in common because it brings people together. It brought us closer with the Harper kids and I think that everyone ha at least one similarity so if we focused on this more often there could be more peace throughout the world.
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