liberals unironically still identify with this map from 1827 lmao
I don't know... The map is way too nice to Muslims to be usable in modern racism.
To be sure, Muslims would have been "orientalised" and exotified, but there was something of a respect for the Civilization of Muslim regions in the 19th century. This was the age of "Thomas Jefferson's Koran" and the "1001 Nights," but before the defeat of the Ottomans.
I like how they made a distinction between "barbarians" and "savages".
Please do tell how the ottoman Turks were less civilized than :anti-italian-action:
that's weird as people in the UK at the time were full on claiming that the Irish were secret black people
Just trying to figure out what's happening in the north of Greenland.
This is an American map right? If it was English only England would be yellow and the rest of the British isles would be marked as savages.
The ZAR boer republiek being the only yellow area on Africa lmaooo. Super obvious racism to the rest of Africa. Also someone tell that to the fools that started the Anglo-Boer wars, or the South African Wars as they should be called. The concentration camps that the British used to keep the Khoisan, Zulu and even the Boers in, was used by Hitler as inspiration for his own methods and concentration camps.
Americans and other western countries look down on and despise south and central american countries. They see them at best as vacation spots, usually as resource havens. The peoples and governments are seen as unimportant and not as good as ours. That whole fear of migrants at the border in america is about Latin American people coming up and destroying our institutions with barbarism.
I just figured out, I misinterpreted the comment from sadstruggle92, I thought they were saying the second half of their comment represented the present, not how things were in the map above.
Taken another way, this is just a map of the various modes of production used around the world in 1827. Except, they were imperialist pigs who thought their mode of production made their jeans special
genes. The pants were special, in that you couldn't get them without a special supply line and factory.
The magic of Levi's. Russia wasn't truly civilized until they sold them on the Red Square
1827? So this is some time before theosophists and other European occult weirdos would go from vilifying the non-Abrahamic religious traditions of the places the Euros had colonised to fetishizing them and claiming white people invented them
Edit: What is the symbol for "pagans" supposed to be? It looks like a box
This has a higher quality image (tho in black and white) and I still can't exactly tell. Some sort of pedestal maybe?
Map where everything is yellow except for the EU, which is green, Five Eyes countries, which are red, and Italy, which is the deepest blue imaginable
