I think the general lack of trust for strangers in the West is far more complex an issue than terrorists alone can be credited for. For example the Cold War was a time of extensive paranoia.
I think to a large extent techonolgy can be blamed. People know that they truly have little privacy anymore. As a result people are much more likely to feel infringed when perhaps they are not. At the same time persons in authority are more likely to precive a person as suspicious.
Maim stream media regardless its slant mostly focuses on bad news which makes people more likely to mistrust strangers. I find it ironic that on one hand people complain about lack of privacy on one hand then use social media which of course takes away ones privacy. In other words we are too connected to techonolgy and not other people.
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