How does 9 11 affect america

Americans watched in horror as the terrorist attacks of Sept. A devastating emotional toll, a lasting historical legacy. Addressing the threat of terrorism at home and abroad.

The enduring power of the Sept. Yet an ever-growing number of Americans have no personal memory of that day, either because they were too young or not yet born. A review of U. As the country comes to grips with the tumultuous exit of U.

This examination of how the United States changed in the two decades following the Sept. Current data is from a Pew Research Center survey of 10, U. Most of the interviewing was conducted before the Aug. This way nearly all U. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U. Here are the questions used for the report, along with responses, and its methodology. Americans were enraged by the attacks, too. Fear was widespread, not just in the days immediately after the attacks, but throughout the fall of When asked a year later to describe how their lives changed in a major way, about half of adults said they felt more afraid, more careful, more distrustful or more vulnerable as a result of the attacks.

This sentiment was shared by residents of other large cities. A quarter of people who lived in large cities nationwide said their lives had changed in a major way — twice the rate found in small towns and rural areas. The impacts of the Sept. By the following August, half of U. They responded according to their expertise.

The Sept. We conducted research among several thousand U. In addition to the advent of social media, many people also now carry smartphones equipped with powerful cameras that can take graphic pictures or videos of tragedy that can be instantly distributed around the world. Repeated exposure to these graphic and disturbing images may exact a toll on those who view them, increasing anxiety and drawing people into a cycle of distress after engaging news reports of subsequent tragedies.

After the terrorist attacks, the government imposed a temporary nationwide shutdown of the airline industry, fearing additional attacks using commercial aircraft. As a Sikh researcher who has studied the backlash, I know it is inextricably linked to the historical and current oppression of other groups.

The increase in documented bias attacks, hate crimes and systemic oppression in the U. Siblings are the longest relationships we have. Believe it or not, siblings actually make us who we are. They are the only ones that are there from our beginnings or early childhood into late adulthood.

They are the shared witnesses to our lives. Without them, we would be different people. If you had a rebellious older sibling, you are more likely to be rule-abiding. Invisible in the organization of civil rights groups protesting discrimination. Invisible in textbooks on racial and ethnic groups in the United States. It's like they're widely discriminated against, and pretty much everybody knows it. And yet, they're not sitting at the table of those groups.

Even today, there is no category for Arab Americans in the U. So, Arab Americans are counted as whites in the census, for example, even though they do not have the white experience. Arabs and Muslims in the United States also contended with an increase in hate crimes. Since then, hate crimes against Arabs and Muslims tend to spike whenever there is an extremist attack overseas, according to Levin, while Muslim achievement often goes unnoticed.

Ugur Sahin and his wife, Dr. The Council on American Islamic Relations , a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, documented more than 10, anti-Muslim bias incidents from , and another 6, in The incidents included anti-Muslim hate crimes, discrimination, immigration, travel issues and school bullying. But also at the same time, finding sources of resilience and trying to find ways to gain strength from the experience.