American Ways

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• It remains to be seen whether the attacks will indeed have a lasting impact on the way Americans live. But the immediate aftermath seemed char- acteristically American in several ways.Americans searched for a single cause of the event and settled on the idea that Osama bin Laden, rather than some complex configuration of factors, was responsible. (查看原文)

  南风南 2013-08-02 15:20:49

• People all over the country sought ways to help; they donated blood, set up fund-raising drives, and volunteered at the attack sites. In general, Americans professed not to understand how other people could hate them so. They ap- peared to have no particular knowledge of or con- cern about the history that might have led to the attacks. Most seemed not to understand how people could deliberately kill themselves in the name of a cause such as a religion or political point of view. Americans believed that the event could have been avoided and that another such event can be fore- stalled, probably with better use of technology (such as stronger doors on cockpits, fingerprinting, body scanning, and other biometric security and identifi- cation devices) and more thorough background in- vesti... (查看原文)

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