9/11 and the immediate ractions to it has one of the biggest distortion fields of any topic in the English language. There is a polite fiction maintained when any Americans are present that everyone everywhere was sad about the incident. We shake our head, frown, and say that everyone shed a tear when we saw the towers fall on TV.

The truth is, there were celebrations around the world. I have talked to multiple Chinese people who were in the US at the time who told me some variant of "I was absolutely celebrating on the inside, and honestly kinda pissed that I had to pretend to be sad publicly". I had a middle school teacher in China who told a story about how he was literally the only people in a room who wasn't publically celebrating people burning to death in the towers. Something about the NATO bombing [...]

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