September 11

[wordsrmylife]

Something that happened yesterday  (September 10) made me think more about the significance of September 11 than I normally do on its anniversary

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[lmurph524]

Well said. My mother was freaking out that I was on a plane yesterday around the same time that the attacks occurred. I had to call her the minute I landed. I'm 33 years old.
One of the most realistic things that I learned in a Cultural Anthropology class was this: some of the women in the middle east (if not more than that) prefer to continue to live their lives covered up by hijabs. That is the way they were raised. It offers them a sort of protection. What we see in our news telecast is influenced by our Western values and ideals. Just as what they may see is influenced by their Eastern values and ideals.
Anyway, like I said before... Well said!

[wordsrmylife]

I'm trying to figure out when people got some paranoid about their kids. I think it was before 9/11. Or, given that we always had to call my in-laws when we got home after visiting them (so, it was a 4 hour drive, big deal. No traffic to speak of, now wilderness. Let's just say, the stories I could tell!), when did more/most people get so paranoid?

This is a serious question, because I worked at a university for 9 years and I definitely noticed it more in the last four years. Did the proliferation of cell phones cause it, or did cell phones proliferate in response to a need?

Hmm, if I were a non-fiction writer, I know what my next project would be. But I'm not. (Yay! I like tight little manageable worlds, even those that look like this one.)

Thanks for the cultural insight.

[lmurph524]

My mom only got like that after I left the house for good. When I was in high school, she didn't fret at all. Heck I didn't have a curfew! When I first left for college, she was calm as could be.
People are weird though. Times keep getting stranger and stranger ...