I'm thinking they may not be from the US. Since elementary school we've always learned about and discussed 9/11 on 9/11 as a remembrance day. Maybe some younger kids couldn't recognize the towers immediately, but they would probably still know about 9/11 if they were over the age of 7 or so (I can't remember when we first learn about it).

Yep. I used to moderate a forum for kids, and someone said something about 9/11 and 50 small children said "What about it?".

Also if they're young and also not from the US there's an even smaller chance they know

It's hard for Americans to understand that they don't actually influence the entire world. They are literally taught that they are the most important country on the planet.

To Jocelyn Kuntz: you do know that there are about 5 people that live out of America? I am one of them. There’s a reason my parents didn’t teach me about 9/11. It’s because it wasn’t relevant to me :D

Americans feel this event is the most significant event it world history, but know NOTHING of world events, why this occured or the fact that the US attacked Iraq for NO REASON, killed over 150,000 people there and destablized the region, basically creating and inspiring ISIS, while allowing D**k Chaney to make himself, all of his buddies and the military industrial complex slightly richer. But the US was supplying Iraq with arms back in the 80's and Rumsfeld was buddy buddy with Sadam Husien.

I didn't know about the twin towers until I was 13 and read the timeriders book series. I'm British, along with my entire family, and have never ever had them even mentioned in an academic setting. I know about it because of the memes and the timeriders books. And hell, I definitely wouldn't be able to recognise them

we’re taught it in school and have like a remembrance thing on 9/11

My kids school talks about it every year on the anniversary... Starting in kindergarten... I have had so many times when they came home crying, and the next year they have forgotten at that age. I can opt out of PE and sex ed, but apparently not of them explaining to a 5 year old about how many people were killed 20 years ago in a terrorist attack......

THIS (and I say this as an adult who grew up able to see the towers from the beach I went to, and lost 1 HS friend, and had at least one other who was supposed to be there that day, plus numerous friends of my parents..) Even with all that connection, MOST 40 something's cannot tell you why our grandparents might get weird on 12/7, or why Brits might get weird on 7/11. Time and distance do not make someone stupid, at all.

even if you know about it, doesn't mean you can recognize the buildings from a photo

But you forget that we, as American's, believe the entire *bleeping* world revolves around us and our history is everyone's. (Seriously, there are far too many of us that actually think this way.)

I have a picture of me in front of them as a teenager. My daughter saw it and looked at it like it was a historic photo of Theodore Roosevelt or something.

I'm Australian, and I didn't know about 9/11 until I was about 13-14 and kids started making those jokes in class.

The angle and coloring in this picture keep them from being immediately recognizable. It took me a moment to recognize them.

Yeah I guess I wouldn't expect an Irish teen to know either

Ok even ik and I'm a child who isn't in America

For some reason this really reminded me of my age and now I’m just not feeling so young anymore…

It was 22 years ago - for some people it's something they've heard only from history books. Plus, the towers look very generic, with little things to distinguish them in that specific picture.

Oh man! How can you be like that? This is US, dude, in the USA! Wow, how can you be so lame as to believe anything, anywhere, has any history but us? We are such an humble people.😂😅🤣

This was a tragic day in world history, not just for the USA. My daughter asked me just yesterday where I was when the towers went down. She has asked many times over the years and always gets the same answer. I was able to tell her my exact location and my reason for being in that spot at that time. She wasn’t born when it happened and it was thousands of miles from us (we are in the UK) but I find it weird that the biggest individual act of terrorism in modern history can be dismissed so readily.

This was a worldwide tragedy and tons of people all over the world are super aware of it. This made news all over the world. Also since I like to be aware of the planet I live on I and many many people not just those I know are very super aware of major things that go on in the world. Just because you hide behind a rock and don't pay attention doesn't mean everybody's like you. Most people are very aware of world affairs. World affairs affect everybody on one day you might grow up to be old enough to understand this one. But even with that aside this was a major huge event all over the world. People all over the world lost people. You can go to the tiniest Island and people are aware of this. Don't tell me I don't know because unlike you I visit past my backyard I have lived and traveled all over this world and I have friends all over this world. I am very aware of what goes on in this world I'm very aware of all the words and every country because that affects us directly.

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I mean, I wasn't alive during WW1, WW2, or Vietnam, but I damn sure knew about them by the time I was 10. I'm sorry bud, this is just inexcusable stupidity.

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If your kids don't know basic history like what happened on 9\11 then YOU FAILED AS A PARENT. No questions asked.

Uhm, the buildings have neary 22,000 windows (that's twenty two thousands, for those who didn't graduate first grade), so the windows are not able to be represented with the few pixels of the low quality screenshot