The World’s a Big Place: Call for Diversity

What’s wrong with this list of locations participating so far in the 1001 Flat World Tales project?

1. Hawaii, USA
2. Colorado, USA
3. Missouri, USA
4. New Brunswick, Canada
5. Connecticut, USA
6. Seoul, Republic of Korea

I know the project is less than three weeks old, but…the world is so much bigger, and more interesting, than simple North America.

Where is the African world? The European? The East Asian (besides my Korean students)? The Southeast Asian? The Indian? The South and Central American? The Middle Eastern? All the rest?

Where, especially–since this project was inspired by the confluence of a 21st Century tool called a “wiki” and a thousand-year-old classic called The Thousand and One Nights–is the Arab world?

If you’re out there in the other parts of the world, please consider helping out by letting your students (or those of teachers you know) share their worlds with this so-far-homogeneous one.

Because this….

is not this….

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