After watching National Geographic: Cultural Differences, TEDx, “Pellegrino Riccardi: Cross cultural communuication” and reading about cultural and behavioral geography in the reading for this week, I have come to notice how many factors have truly influenced my mental map. In the reading “Intro to geography” by Dahlman Renwick the definition of behavioral geography is “how our perception influences our behavior” and the images one imagines when thinking of these perceptions is our mental map. I did not know how influential my behavioral geography was on myself until I came to college. I had many mental maps about the world and several of them have been proven wrong. For example, I have never been to Springfield, Massachusetts but I had already
