Gilgit-Baltistan conquered by India—at least on the globes manufactured in India, and being sold by the Target stores
Found this globe at the local Target store, selling for $14.99—please see photos. It was made in India, and it shows Pakistan having no land border with China, and India having a border with Afghanistan! How did the ground realities change? Well, according to this globe, India has taken over the Gilgit-Baltistan area. Hooray! No CPEC (China Pakistan Economic Corridor) anymore without the consent of India, since the northern stretch of the trade route passes through ‘Indian-controlled’ Gilgit-Baltistan. And the USA does not need Pakistan’s help anymore, in order to control things in Afghanistan—Pakistan’s archrival India now has a land border with Afghanistan!
All sarcasm aside, who are these idiots working at the Target Procurement Department?
They don’t know geography! They can’t identify a glaring error in the globes being manufactured in a third world country! Time for Brian Cornell to fire a bunch of morons Target Corporation can work without.
7 comments:
From FB:
The error in a globe should not be turned into a feud of competing South Asian nationalisms. This is not what it is about. It is about misinformation, about lying to people. The globe is not a knickknack. It is an educational tool. Imagine someone learning geography from this globe and then traveling to India hoping to cross the land border into Afghanistan, from India, only to find out there is another country in between.
From FB:
Thanks, SS. The globe does not show Western Kashmir as a disputed territory--no explanatory text, no dotted lines, no change in color. It shows it as a part of India.
From FB:
As a friend of South Asia, I consider it a pathetic situation. South Asian manufacturers cannot be trusted. National aspirations can easily creep into things they make. Being fooled themselves by state propaganda, they are gullible enough to pass on the joke to a wider audience in the world. I hang my head in shame.
From FB:
Maps skewed by national agenda can cost people money. Imagine a mountaineer wishing to scale K2. Looking at this map they would think they need a visa to India. On reaching India they would find out they needed to go to Pakistan instead.
From FB:
When a cartographer changes the map of the world according to the propaganda handed out by their state, they don't change the ground realities. They just prove to the world how naive and stupid they are.
From FB:
It is not about UN resolutions or HOW IT SHOULD BE. It is about HOW IT IS NOW. Why should our judgments be blinded by state propaganda?
From FB:
Indian cartographers can learn from their crafty neighbors. Pakistani cartographers show Pakistan occupied Kashmir as a dotted entity within Pakistan and call it 'Azad Kashmir'; they put similar dots around Jammu and Kashmir and call it 'Indian occupied Kashmir.' Sly indeed! But at least they don't make people believe Pakistan has a land border with Tibet.
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