Since 9/11 the whole world is different, and the casualness that existed before has disappeared everywhere, and obviously from New York.
The story is not rare in newspapers and on TV, and the casualness and detachment our people now have developed has amused nationwide concern.
Our linguistic and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us friend in the world.
