The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others and the tendency to evaluate and assign meaning to other ethnicities using yours as a standard has been achieved through processes as mundane as cartography, (map drawing).
The drawing of maps has historically emphasized and bolstered specific lands and their associated national identities.
Cartographers in early centuries commonly distorted actual locations and distances when depicting them on maps; British cartographers for example centered Britain on their maps, and drew it proportionally larger than it should be.
I wonder why?
The drawing of maps has historically emphasized and bolstered specific lands and their associated national identities.
Cartographers in early centuries commonly distorted actual locations and distances when depicting them on maps; British cartographers for example centered Britain on their maps, and drew it proportionally larger than it should be.
I wonder why?
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