Nine UK schools start scanning children’s faces to take their lunch money This is clear evidence of how the education system has misled children using the Mercator map. Kai Krause, the designer of The True Size of Africa model, refers to a survey in which American school children estimated their country to be the largest, with a population of 1-2 billion. We need to change the way the map is taught from a young age and promote an objective geography that is free from any bias.Įducation has a huge impact on our world views. We have to acknowledge the aftermath of imperialism and its subsequent xenophobia and I believe that continuing to see the world through a pro-Imperialist lens is deeply problematic. This has been taught to generation after generation and has ingrained what psychologists call an ‘implicit racial attitude’ – an automatic, arguably unconscious, racist response.Ī study conducted by Harvard University, called Project Implicit, proved people’s tendency to associate white faces with positive words and black faces with negative. These inaccuracies have shaped a historical and geographical narrative that the northern hemisphere is superior.
