Read the following article
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/19/boston-public-schools-world-map-mercator-peters-projection#img-2
Identify Three Claims
1. "A district will drop the Mercator projection, which physically diminished Africa and South America, for the Peters, which cut the developed world down to size.
Boston’s public schools began phasing in the lesser-known Peters projection, which cuts the US, Britain and the rest of Europe down to size. Teachers put contrasting maps of the world side by side and let the students study them."
2. "The mercator projection is not an accurate representation of a world map. Mercator’s distortions affect continents as well as nations. For example, South America is made to look about the same size as Europe, when in fact it is almost twice as large, and Greenland looks roughly the size of Africa when it is actually about 14 times smaller. Alaska looks bigger than Mexico and Germany is often right in the middle of the picture, not to the north – because publishers frequently cropped off Antarctica and then re-centered the Mercator map, resulting in the equator appearing two-thirds of the way down the image."
3. “The Mercator projection is a symbolic representation that put Europe at the center of the world. And when you continue to show images of the places where people’s heritage is rooted that is not accurate, that has an effect on students.”
Definitions
The Paradigm Shift
According to the Meriam Webster dictionary, the paradigm shift is an important change that happens when the usual way of thinking about or doing something is replaced by a new and different way This discovery will bring about a paradigm shift in our understanding of evolution.
Ethical Bias
An ethical bias is a preference towards a thing that has been decided by the persons moral principles of actions.
European imperialism
The policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies. 2. advocacy of imperial or sovereign interests over the interests of the dependent states. 3. imperial government; rule by an emperor or empress. Specifically in Europe.
Sources:
1. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/imperialism
3. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paradigm%20shift
