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As I was a young child living in Australia, the events of September 11 seemingly were oblivious to me. Either this was the situation or my memory eludes me. The attacks occurred in America, and whilst there is undoubtedly significant cultural influence between the United States and Australia, they failed to induce a significant emotional response from myself at the time of the attacks due to my age. The only reason that I can accredit this notion to is irelevance. There were no people that I knew well involved in the incident, and thus, I never really became engaged in the events that occurred that day. In saying this, the attacks did still have an influence on my future person, with countless documentaries outlining and providing theories behind the September 11 attacks. These documentaries developed a lack of trust for those responsible for the attacks, namely the Middle Eastern community. Furthermore, the Middle Eastern people are generally stereotyped by media oftentimes and this contributed to the emotional response. Rather shamefully, the only real effect that the events had on my life was interrupting my cartoons that I would watch of a morning time.

I will remember the September 11 events as an atrocity that occurred within the United States of America. I will always see the issue as a demonstration of the unpredictability of hostility between countries.