{"id":584,"date":"2015-09-10T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T18:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210s20\/?p=11"},"modified":"2015-09-10T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T18:07:10","slug":"benjamins-storymap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/2015\/09\/10\/benjamins-storymap\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin\u2019s StoryMap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With over a 90% African-American student population, my high school, University City, is not the most diverse school in the world.\u00a0 But my lunch table during my senior year was very diverse.\u00a0 The people at my table were black, biracial, white, and Hispanic.\u00a0 We were Christian, atheist, and Jewish.\u00a0 We were poor and well off.\u00a0 We were also from all different parts of the world including Nigeria, Uganda, Mexico, and the United States.\u00a0 We would often have debates about current events, including the Ferguson riots, gridlock in Congress, and foreign relations with Russia, Afghanistan, and other countries.\u00a0 Some of these heated discussions lasted the entire lunch period. It was so cool that my lunch table friends all had such different backgrounds and perspectives on the world around them.\u00a0 The Americans, including myself, viewed issues with a patriotic bias.\u00a0 I held an interesting point of view as an American Jew, especially since I had just returned from a trip to Israel the previous summer as the Israeli conflict with Gaza was escalating.\u00a0 But it was the international students&#8211;Adekunle, Sharmake, and Carlos&#8211;who provided the most interesting perspectives.\u00a0 Adekunle is from Nigeria; Sharmake is from Uganda; and Carlos is from Mexico.\u00a0 These three international students used their unique backgrounds to debunk stereotypes and to share their own views on the world.\u00a0 Lunch period during my senior year exposed me to so many different world viewpoints, helping me become more globally aware.\u00a0 In this StoryMap, I will reveal how each international student and myself contributed to the conversations at our\u00a0lunch table.<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads.knightlab.com\/storymapjs\/0bc9e0072d23b7656f018fc1ea627dd3\/benjamins-fun-geog-210-map-practice\/index.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over a 90% African-American student population, my high school, University City, is not the most diverse school in the world.\u00a0 But my lunch table during my senior year was very diverse.\u00a0 The people at my table were black, biracial, white, and Hi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29790,32853,31563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2015","category-global-citizen-storymap","category-section-2","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","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\/2489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}