I don't understand. I presume you aren't trying to say that the London Riots have any link to 9/11 and if you are referring to the way the event was reported, I've been told that it got very little coverage in the US, whereas we are still hearing about that one terrorist attack in New York a decade later.
What's more, the reaction by Brits to the 7/7 bombings was very different to the reaction to 9/11. Bombs went off in several tube trains and at least one bus and the reaction was that we shouldn't let this stop us from getting on with things as usual.
When 9/11 happened I was in India. I was told that someone in America had flown a plane into a building and I rolled my eyes and thought "what an idiotic thing for them to do". It took later reports on the event for me to fully understand its importance.
When 7/7 happened, on the other hand, I was back home in England at the time and it was pretty frightening. I think it must have happened late enough that most commuters were already at work though. The biggest backlash was that people would feel a bit uneasy seeing someone with brown skin and a backpack on the tube, not that they'd stop them of course. (One comedian joked about this. He said, "if you're a Muslim then take the tube and wear a backpack. You might get some funny looks, but you'll definitely get a seat.")
I suppose the thing that marked 9/11 out as different was the unusual method involved. Big lumbering jumbo jets being redirected towards major monuments with hundreds of innocent passengers on board naturally makes a bigger impression than some explosives going off. I think the thing that has really left the biggest imprint though, is America's response to it.
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Date: 2011-09-12 07:58 am (UTC)I don't understand. I presume you aren't trying to say that the London Riots have any link to 9/11 and if you are referring to the way the event was reported, I've been told that it got very little coverage in the US, whereas we are still hearing about that one terrorist attack in New York a decade later.
What's more, the reaction by Brits to the 7/7 bombings was very different to the reaction to 9/11. Bombs went off in several tube trains and at least one bus and the reaction was that we shouldn't let this stop us from getting on with things as usual.
When 9/11 happened I was in India. I was told that someone in America had flown a plane into a building and I rolled my eyes and thought "what an idiotic thing for them to do". It took later reports on the event for me to fully understand its importance.
When 7/7 happened, on the other hand, I was back home in England at the time and it was pretty frightening. I think it must have happened late enough that most commuters were already at work though. The biggest backlash was that people would feel a bit uneasy seeing someone with brown skin and a backpack on the tube, not that they'd stop them of course. (One comedian joked about this. He said, "if you're a Muslim then take the tube and wear a backpack. You might get some funny looks, but you'll definitely get a seat.")
I suppose the thing that marked 9/11 out as different was the unusual method involved. Big lumbering jumbo jets being redirected towards major monuments with hundreds of innocent passengers on board naturally makes a bigger impression than some explosives going off. I think the thing that has really left the biggest imprint though, is America's response to it.