Ask the Experts: What Does Bin Laden’s Death Mean to Us and Society?

The death of Osama bin Laden elicited many different types of responses and feelings–triumph, sorrow and anger among them. Each of us, as individuals, is capable of having conflicting feelings about the death of the al Qaeda leader, depending on how we happen to see ourselves at any given moment–as parents, spouses, workers, Americans, and so forth. The variety of our responses reveals the subtle and powerful forces surrounding social identity: how we relate to different groups and roles, which is changeable and influenced by circumstances

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Ask the Experts: What Does Bin Laden’s Death Mean to Us and Society?