Here is World Map from African Perspective

#EndColonialMap

For Activating Almonds:
- Earth is just a rock floating in space, so it dont have up and down
- and since we dont know how magnet works anyway.. (why north is north? why south is south?)


Quote from Wikipedia:

>Psychological significance

>Research suggests that north-south positions on maps have psychological consequences. In general, north is associated with richer people, more expensive real estate, and higher altitude, while south is associated with poorer people, cheaper prices, and lower altitude (the "north-south bias"). When participants were presented with south-up oriented maps, this north-south bias disappeared.[1]

>Researchers posit the observed association between map-position and goodness/badness (north=good; south=bad) is caused by (i) the convention of consistently placing north at the top of maps, and (ii) a much more general association between vertical position and goodness/badness (up=good, down=bad), which has been documented in numerous contexts (e.g., power/status, profits/prices, affect/emotion, and even the divine).[2]

>Common English idioms support the notion that many English speakers conflate or associate north-with-up and south-with-down (e.g., "heading up north" or "down south"), a conflation that can only be understood as learned by repeated exposure to a particular map-orientation convention (i.e., north put at the top of maps). Related idioms used in popular song lyrics provide further evidence for the pervasiveness of "north-south bias" among English speakers, in particular with regard to wealth. Examples include, using "Uptown" to mean "high class or rich" (as in Uptown Girl byBilly Joel), or using "Downtown" to convey lower socioeconomic status (as in Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce)

Boston schools ditch conventional world maps in favor of this one

>For decades, geography teachers have relied on a more than 400-year-old map that grossly distorts the size of the world’s landmasses — the byproduct of trying to depict a sphere on a flat surface and, perhaps, of Colonialism.

>The world maps that have hung on school walls in Boston and around the country portray North America as larger than Africa (but it’s not) and Alaska as more mammoth than Mexico (also untrue).

>But now, social studies classrooms throughout the Boston Public School system are getting an upgrade some 448 years in the making. On Thursday, about 600 elementary, middle, and high school classrooms received new 24-by-36-inch laminated maps – yes, paper maps and not high-tech, satellite images – in an effort to show students what the world really looks like. The district is swapping out conventional mapsfor those that more accurately depict the dimensions of continents and countries.

>The map exchange is part of the district’s effort to “decolonize the curriculum” within the next three years, said Colin Rose, assistant superintendent in charge of the Boston Public Schools’ Office of Opportunity and Achievement Gaps. A goal of the office is to eliminate structural bias and inequality within the school system while ensuring that what students learn in the classroom is culturally competent.

>“So this is about maps, but it isn’t about maps,” Rose said. “It’s about a paradigm shift in our district. We’ve had a very fixed view that is very Eurocentric. How do we talk about other viewpoints? This is a great jump off point.”

>The previous map, created in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigational purposes, warps the sizes of continents and countries. Africa is three times bigger than North America, for example, but appears smaller on the map.

Yeah, I used to read Mafalda when I was younger too

But Manolito is the redpilled one, not that fucking whore Libertad

Why not this one?

YFW white people still at the top right corner of your map.

argentina and australia are still on top though

>the byproduct of trying to depict a sphere on a flat surface and, perhaps, of Colonialism.

>and, perhaps, of Colonialism

No you dumb shits, it is literally the problem with representing a 3d sphere on a 2d plane.

FFS

I am open to different projections, and representing actual land mass could be a useful one.

But get your fucking cultish politics out of it.

>>Psychological significance
Australia BTFO

>Why not this one?
It's covered in chink letters.

Had this shit forced down my throat at university. The bottom line is all 2D representations of earth have their own downside. Familiarity should be enough of a reason to not change the norm. Unless you believe in the colonial bogeyman...

Also fuck the West Wing for bringing this meme to prominence.

Here's the original

Here is a world map from an African perspective...

...and it's beautiful!

...

So South Africa remains at the top of the map, the ONLY african country with a significant population of Euros. Cracker-ass Chile and Argentina are placed above the indigenous and African peoples of Brazil, Peru, etc. And then there's Australia and New Zealand placed above hundreds of millions of Asians . . . you know what? This map is racist as shit! Get this out of my sight!

There is only one accurate map of the world and its pic related. All later versions are silly attempts at historical revisionism.

>african perspective
>vast majority of africa is in northern hemisphere

what did he mean by this?

He meant the South American perspective. My HS spanish teacher pushed this map all the time.

Maps in old Europe used to be oriented east towards Jerusalem. This upside down Africa shit is really annoying.

Hey this is huffington post and we are very impressed with your natural journalistic talent, we need more people like you. Please do the buzzfeed privilege test and send its score to out hr along with your resume.

>Researchers posit the observed association between map-position and goodness/badness (north=good; south=bad) is caused by (i) the convention of consistently placing north at the top of maps, and (ii) a much more general association between vertical position and goodness/badness (up=good, down=bad), which has been documented in numerous contexts (e.g., power/status, profits/prices, affect/emotion, and even the divine).

I bet if they put all the maps upside down after a few years the language and all human culture will naturally change to reflect the fact that nothing good comes from the "up" people.

Kinda reminds me of when Thor was drawing the Nine Realms in Thor.

nice! It says in the text above:

The whole world in a clover, which is the coat of arms of my city hannover, my dear fatherland.

I am from Hannover and never saw this. I guess you have to come to a tanna tuvian throat singing board to learn something about your hometown

Africans using any abstract pictoral representation as a navigational tool sounds a lot like cultural appropriation.

This

MAPS GET ORIENTED TO THE DIRECTION OF THE COMPASS! NORTH IS UP BECAUSE COMPASSES POINT THAT WAY! FUCKING REEEEEEEE!

"except the north end of the compass is attracted to the 'North' because the North Pole is actually Earth's magnetic South Pole. Opposites attract.

umm how do you differ magnet's south and north?

Whether you're at the positive or negative end of the charge.

Africans don't count.

how do you know which one positive which one negative?