{"id":549,"date":"2015-10-01T12:07:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210s04\/?p=13"},"modified":"2015-10-01T12:07:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:07:33","slug":"global-citizen-storymap-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/2015\/10\/01\/global-citizen-storymap-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Citizen StoryMap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Language is the form in which we as individuals communicate.\u00a0 However, there are times in which not knowing a language can be a barrier and hinder an individual by limiting the individual\u2019s options both socially and economically.\u00a0 This was seen in the book <em>Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the US.<\/em>\u00a0 In that book, due to the inability of the migrant workers from Oaxaca, Mexico\u00a0to speak English it resulted in them enduring mental, emotional, and physical pain as well as being looked down upon.\u00a0 For me, the ability to speak two languages has increased my ability to interact with people from many countries.\u00a0 In addition to interaction, language has become a medium through which I have become aware of issues that affect individuals and their families.\u00a0 For example, in my visit to El Salvador I was able to sit down and talk with a father who had reached a point in which each day he feared for his life and that of his family.\u00a0 In my story map I will talk about how language has made me a global citizen.\u00a0 I start off my mentioning how I got to learn both Spanish and English, and then I go on to giving examples in which language has helped me better interact with those around me.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads.knightlab.com\/storymapjs\/2ee6309565f6f26713b39c7b5db231af\/global-citizen-storymap\/index.html\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"700\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language is the form in which we as individuals communicate.\u00a0 However, there are times in which not knowing a language can be a barrier and hinder an individual by limiting the individual\u2019s options both socially and economically.\u00a0 This was seen in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2474,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29790,32853,31562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2015","category-global-citizen-storymap","category-section-1","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}