As information about the Boston bombings and the suspects, the media began jumping on hints and allegations about the suspects' religion and skin color. Our country is rife with history of fear of "the other", and accusations that one group or another is "Un-American". So in order to bring folks together, the Afternoon Shift invited guests and opened the phone lines to have a conversation around the question, "What's something about your home country that you'd want people to know about?"

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has deemed over 950 historical sites around the world as having “outstanding universal value.” Designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site brings great prestige, but in some cases, it can actually make preservation efforts more challenging. Michael Di Giovine is the author of The Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage, and Tourism. He joined Jerome McDonnell on Worldview to explain why.