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how is the patriot act or a financial crisis a world wide event? if you ask a child in Germany or Iran or Brazil or Zimbabwe what Katrina is or what the patriot act is or what 9/11 is will they know??
in the 40's EVERYONE EVERYWHERE knew about the war
actually, I take it back. I might be wrong, but I think that every child DID know that america was attacked on 9/11, weather they were happy about it or sad or neutral, everyone did know. (I think)
That was an in teresting point. Everybody in America knew that Pearl Harbor had been attacked. There was heavy dependence on radio for news, and every station broke in with the bulletin.
On 9/11, I surfed through my cable channels at about 11 am, and there was coverage on only about 12 channels, out of about 120 cable channels. Anybody who was mindlessly watching VH1 or ETWN or the Golf Channel were blissfully unaware that anything was going on at all. Same goes for anyone who was in their car, rocking to a satellite music station. As many as half of all Americans (I knew some of them) had not yet heard about the attack by noon on 9/11.
That was an in teresting point. Everybody in America knew that Pearl Harbor had been attacked. There was heavy dependence on radio for news, and every station broke in with the bulletin.
On 9/11, I surfed through my cable channels at about 11 am, and there was coverage on only about 12 channels, out of about 120 cable channels. Anybody who was mindlessly watching VH1 or ETWN or the Golf Channel were blissfully unaware that anything was going on at all. Same goes for anyone who was in their car, rocking to a satellite music station. As many as half of all Americans (I knew some of them) had not yet heard about the attack by noon on 9/11.
oh even those who werent aware of it though, they still knew about it by the end of the day. I know some people in nyc (uptown) who also werent aware of it right away (but im talking about all the way uptown manhattan)
I think that very few things that we think are important will be remmebered because decdes are not much remmebr as so few really importnat things happen in ten years. Word about the first black prsident so afr. I think the last 100 years will be discussed more intebdly as events;actions and results are looked at in context to teh times and challenges. Most they seem to be world events. We may not even recognise the judgements of history to what we think now.
then there's the 70's, 50's, 80's 90's none of which has any WORLD WIDE
I disagree.
The 50's saw USSR launch and deploy Sputnik.
The 70's had the Persian monarchy over thrown by Islamofacists, ending 2,500 years of continuous monarchy.
The Berlin Wall came down in '89. As a child in elementary school, I remember kids coming to school with a piece of the Wall. It was a huge event heard around the the World.
1989 also, Eastern Europe through Velvet Revolutions began a process of self representative gov't again.
Tiananmen square occurred.
1991 South Africa repealed apartheid laws, '92 SA had nonracial elections. 1992 saw the Soviet Empire crumbled.
On 9/11, I surfed through my cable channels at about 11 am, and there was coverage on only about 12 channels, out of about 120 cable channels.
You must have been in Lebanon or the GE boardroom. I remember 9-11 quit clearly. My buddy IM'd me and told me to turn on the TV. Every channel I turned to had coverage of the attacks.
seriously no one cares about katrina or **** like that. thats no history. americans think every little **** that happens there is history.
I was in Indonesia about a year after 9/11 and several people came up to me, this in a village without vehicles, chickens running around in the street, barefoot kids everywhere, and they were very aware of 9/11 and offered their sympathies (this, in a muslim country), and further more one asked me "how is the U.S. war on terror going"? Everyone in the world is aware of 9/11, and events that occur in the U.S. are very much at the forefront of their news. I'm amazed during my travels on how much U.S. news is reported (usually biased, but that's another discusssion).
For world history, 9/11 and terrorism (without some of the political bias that will bring on current discussions) will be the principle theme of this decade.
In a few hundred years however, it will just be a footnote in history books.
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