Introduction
The 9/11 attacks were unpredictable, and they shook the entire country. Two planes came out of nowhere, and struck the twin towers in order to demise them forever. The hallmark constructions of the New York City became pile of dust in matter of a few hours. The implications of the attacks were far reaching to say the least, and the culture of locality dramatically changed after terrorist attacks in New York. Before the attacks, New York was a hub for socialization, entertainment, and sports, but after the attacks, life in the City became dull. People experience fear while on the road. They suspect trouble to manifest itself in one way or another always. Those who lost their loved ones during the attacks cannot let go of the past, and therefore, they are not able to live fulfilling lives. The notion of fulfilling and enjoyable life was a defining attribute of the City. However, the people have to live energetically in order to revitalize the liveliness of the locality. They are not making the choice, and they are choosing to be sorrowful. They are living in the past, and they are unable to make the decision of living in the present that is a necessary step in order to have the satisfactory lives. The social area of community work was not so pronounced in pre 9/11 New York, but after that, people found helping others through rough times fulfilling to say the least.
There are positive and negative developments that took place after a horrific set of attacks on New York, but eventually, humanistic values emerged to have a stronger impact on the lives of people. The celebrations of Christmas and Easter have added a spiritual touch over the recent years. Human development and positive psychology are leading disciplines in the New York’s society. The companies are taking good care of their employees in order to keep them committed. The New York has emerged into a center of humanistic concerns, it is unlike the older times, when it was a corporate center of the country, businesses treated people as assets, and when they failed to deliver then, their managers had the authority to throw them out. The attacks brought a sense of unity and prosperity amongst the people of New York. They are becoming more and more socially connected with each other. The psychological and sociological experts considered the trend as temporary in nature, and therefore, they predicted that it will subside with the passage of time, but it did not happen. The social connections grew stronger, and Americans in general and New Yorkers in particular have learned the lesson of unity from the adversity that took countless lives in the matter of one day. The first respondents are representing the kindle of hope for everyone in the country because they rose up to the occasion, and did what they could to save lives. The administration changed the central emergency services number to 911 in order to observe the reality that those attacks constitute the worst adversity faced by the country. The New Yorkers are living, but they are doing that in the sad way. They cheer up when they practice humanistic values, and that is the ultimate affect of September’s aerial attacks.
The social and communal developments occurred because the people of the America drew closer to each other as they faced an imminent danger to their lives and national solitude as well. The social experts thought that the developments that occurred right after the vicious attacks were not deep seated in the society, but the conjecture was proven to be wrong by the community of the nation. The culture of New York dramatically changed in order to depict increasing and enhancing levels of humanistic concerns in the city that was known for its professional attitudes in the past. The featured socialistic strides had been linked with the presence of guilt in the people of the locality because they considered themselves as the utmost level of materialistic in their approach towards the lives before the attacks, and they were experiencing emptiness from the inside.
They had to get out of themselves in order to find happiness and satisfaction in their lives once again, and the dark attacks provided them with the chance to embrace their humanity for the second time. The psychologists realized that the changes were not going to last in the long run because the society had an individualistic culture, and according to the field of cultural studies, nothing can change the cultural realities of the society no matter how strong the influence may be. However, the 9/11 attacks left such a strong note on the New York that nowadays nobody can deny the reality that the location changed in terms of culture in the recent years. The sense of national unity grew more significantly in the abovementioned city than any other. The power of trauma can modify the entire culture, and in doing so, it surprised the professionals who never thought of New York as capable of learning civic values. The operations of charity became more pronounced in the society. The ratio of churchgoers increased notably in the social setup as well.
The social experts were baffled by the strength of changes that they characterized as herd psychology in the opening days when the trends were first noted to lift their heads. The level of happiness dropped in the society, but the degree of serenity grew considerably in the city, and therefore, the people are trying to become more than themselves in the current times. They want to let go of their emotional pain and sense of loss by helping others, and they have learned that to be happy, they have to give others the pleasures of life. The joy of sharing on the occasion of Christmas and Easter have transformed into powerful impacts on the community as well. The artistic trends have developed into defining social attributes of the community that was identified as graveyard of books, paintings, and films. The New York emerged as the center of intellectual services of the entire country, and that took place after the attacks.
Conclusion
The paper has been developed in order to highlight the influence that 9/11 attacks had on the society of the New York, and one can argue that the incident was a blessing in the disguise because it took away a few lives in order to better the countless ones in the present. The empty souls were finally filled with joy of happiness of sharing the blessing of God with others.
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