Newspapers, homepages, and newscasts filled their content with prejudiced information which distorted many Americans point of view. A quote aired from ABC News Message Board displays exactly how the nation felt directly after the attacks, “The Muslims are a bunch of savages that should be nuked off the face of the earth. The Islamic way of life, their nations,
There was a very large amount of anti-Japanese prejudice, especially in the West Coast. The discrimination against Japanese Americans was even at the federal level. Two months after the Pearl Harbor bombing, President Roosevelt authorized the “Executive Order 9066”. This provoked the evacuation of Japanese people from their homes. The United States was afraid there were more Japanese spies plotting another attack.
In his New York Times article, “Air Travelers’ Woes Likely to Worsen This Year,” Jeff Bailey talks about Unites States’ Airline companies deciding to reduce growth to offset fuel prices. Every time people fly somewhere, they get very disturbed and anxious because of the gigantic crowds in the airports. They always think they will miss the flight due to not dropping off their baggage on time, or miss the connecting flight, because they have to go through extra security and the lines are enormous. It would seem just right for companies to grow, increase the number of flights to lower the crowding in all the airports. However, major airline companies are actually doing the complete opposite, and are reducing domestic capacity this year, in order to increase fare prices.
To this day in 2011 we are still fighting these very same wars. We have lost American soldiers as a result. Then Obama’s election took place in 2008 and he promised to fix our economy but as we can see it was quite the opposite. The economy got worse and the national debt increased. To make it worse the
After September 11, wrong or right, Americans formed some type of prejudice against Muslims, Arabs, and most other people associated with the Middle East. This article helps to discourage discrimination against this because there are many groups of people in the United States that apply for a pilot’s license. This article deals with Brazilian illegal immigrants, not Middle Eastern. Although this article was directed towards terrorism, the article does reveal a large gap in the system we have in place. The effect on the U.S. economy and labor force is affected by this issue.
A day of chaos, confusion, and pure tragedy has left America and every American, whose day stopped on September 11th, 2001, permanently scarred. Clouds of thick, gray, debris-filled smoke engulfed downtown Manhattan shortly after two planes were hijacked and flown into the Twin Towers. The tragedy continued to shock the nation when a third plane crashed into the Pentagon and many were wondering if the attacks would ever end after a fourth plane plummeted to earth, crashing into a field in Pennsylvania. The emotions and thoughts that filled every American on that day are indescribable, but the effects 9/11 has had on today's society are rather easy to recognize. The 9/11 attacks on America have torn apart families, ostracized Muslims, and left
The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in northern Virginia changed the American political landscape. The attacks resulted in 3,030 deaths and 2,337 people were injured. Moreover, 343 firefighters and 75 police officers were killed while responding to the aftermath of the attacks. The tragedy had a significant impact on politics. National security and the threat of terrorism became the most prominent issues in American politics and did not subside as the preeminent issues until 2008, when the country entered into a deep recession.
(2015, January). The Fear of Counterterrorism: Surveillance and Civil Liberties Since 9/11. Society, 52(1), 70-79 doi: 10.1007/s12115-014-9855-1 This article describes some of the negative out comes of 9/11. In this country Arabs/Muslims experienced racism and racial profiling. Even those Arab Americans who were already incarcerated experienced unjust treatment by police officers.
The full throttle attack has since caused tensions to escalate at all time highs between America and Islamic nations. And "the cost of vengeance (instead of justice) has also been high: A further turn towards hatred and a rise in those who think most Muslims are terrorists, that Islam is a threat to the world, etc." ("War on Terror," ) Arabs that have lived in America all there lives have suffered much hatred, prejudices, profiling by their resemblemce to the identities and faces of those involved in the 9/11 attacks. "An identity view: In a New York Times article appearing a week after the horror that befell America on September 11, a Muslim woman described her dilemma this way: "I am so used to thinking about myself as a New Yorker that it took me a few days to begin to see myself as a stranger might: a Muslim woman, an outsider, perhaps an enemy of the city. Before last week, I had thought of myself as a lawyer, a feminist, a wife, a sister, a friend, a woman on the street.
But, just because a few Muslim extremists committed a heinous crime the name Muslim has been forever tainted. Polls have shown that 93% of Muslims don’t support extremist views on terrorism and a rising number of Muslims have been actively speaking out against terrorism – something our media fails to mention. The thing is, we didn't really give Muslims a second thought until a select few deeply affected us. Now the reputation of all Muslims is forever negative because a few ill-minded people happened to be born