Anthropology Help Please?

Question

This is actually for an assignment in my course called "Challenge and Change in Society"...

I need some idea or opinion of an anthropological explanation of the social change that happened after the September 11, 2001 crash...The changes, for example, are that passports are required to cross any border, and especially when going to middle East people are always suspected...There is VERY strict security in air planes and buildings, war happened in Afghanistan, people are paranoid to go on planes, etc....

...anything? this is all the info i have, stupid student teacher gave us 2 days to work on this! for me thats wat too little 'cause to tell the truth I suck at these social sciences...i should have stuck to math and general sciences!

Answer 1

Basically,  I have one comment,  " It wasn't a crash,  it was a deliberate act of Murder on Democracy, or Freedom ".  We don't even call it war any more, it's called a " Jihad ", or Holy War.  Predicted several thousand years ago.             Amazing, Huh ?

Answer 2

I think your teacher is confusing terms or playing with semantics. I mean the major change that happened after 9/11 in terms of any anthropological or sociological concerns has really yet to be studied or understood, since these concerns will show themselves in full once the POLITICAL policies that are slowly manifesting  themselves in this country start to undermine our freedom and privacy.

Answer 3

That's a tough one for me .I can only suggest that as long as man has walked this planet, There have been wars if it wasn't osama it surely would be somebody else.There will always be change nothing ever stays the same except change itself. we can always count on it

Answer 4

I think the biggest change has been grappling with the difficulty of being an open society. It was the openness of American society that made it vulnerable to an attack like that on September 11th. And it was an attack on our way of life and our values. But it now appears we are sacrificing those very same values in order to protect ourselves - in essence, denying ourselves our own freedom in the name of safety.