Perception of history
April 28, 2008
My brother-in-law, Erick Moser, is a graduate student at Saint Louis University studying historical theology. He needed a custom world map-rendering for a presentation he’s giving this week. He puts it in context:
“When discussing world history or modern Church history … the discussion most often tends to focus 1) only on North America and Western Europe or 2) if it includes the rest of the world it is only to show how these other elements have an effect on Western Europe and North America.
“Basically, our mental map often looks like [this map]; all the continents are present, but we don’t see them. This map shows how drastic such a view is. In other words, it brings to our consciousness the implicit assumptions we often have.”
Here’s the map, which is based on this original PDF (click it to zoom it):
