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merlin
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distiller
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| I love the quote from the ad: "You can win every argument with your liberal friends � just wear Bush Country and point to the map!" It shows exactly how stupid you would have to be buy this shirt or to buy into the idea that America is anything other than very divided right now. |
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sigmoid
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Here's an interesting map for everybody that I just saw: the one I saw was called the Down Under Map. This one is called the Upside Down Map. Anyway the idea is the same. You can't see much detail from this picture, so I guess you have to buy one.
here's another version:
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guest of Japan
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| Those maps are great, but they are still eurocentric. In case people don't know what I'm talking about, I mean the countries in the Northern hemisphere are much larger than they ought to be, and the countries in the Southern hemisphere are much smaller. In case your still baffled, Greenland is not bigger than Australia. |
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wannago
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| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| guest of Japan wrote: |
| Those maps are great, but they are still eurocentric. In case people don't know what I'm talking about, I mean the countries in the Northern hemisphere are much larger than they ought to be, and the countries in the Southern hemisphere are much smaller. In case your still baffled, Greenland is not bigger than Australia. |
I hate to break the news to you, but the exaggerated size of Greenland has nothing to do with eurocentrism. It's a simple matter of the difficulty of taking a round object (the earth) and flattening it out to a sheet of paper (a map). Any landmasses near the poles will tend to look larger on a flat map (like Greenland). If you will notice, most of the land masses are in the Northern hemisphere and certainly landmasses nearer to the poles are there as well. Yes, that's right, the only truly accurate map is a globe.
Now, if you want to float the theory that Greenland has successfully lobbied the cartography companies to make its landmass appear larger, then you may have something. Damn Europeans.  |
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guest of Japan
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merlin
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Simply stated: In the most common type map printed in Europe and North America the horizontal lines are farther apart in the north and closer together in the south. this makes the distance from the US/Canada Border to Alaska appear greater than the distance from Seattle to San Diego.
Maps can be tricky, can't they?
For example, notice that Canada is "pink" and the United states "green" on one of the maps. Were those colors chosen randomly? Hmmm... |
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lajzar
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homersimpson
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Now, we're fighting over maps?! How many people even live in Greenland? About 50,000? Yes, Australia is bigger. Is that a country in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? 
P.S. Inferiority complexes, enter door No. 1 to the right. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| For example, notice that Canada is "pink" and the United states "green" on one of the maps. Were those colors chosen randomly? Hmmm... |
In all the maps and globes I remember seeing in my youth, and I was some kind of geography nut in my youth, Canada was always pink. So was the UK. The US was more often than not yellow. Mexico was either blue or brown. MAybe commonwealth countries are pink?
Is there a college course out there for country color physchology or globe painting? |
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ketama
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merlin
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| know its old, but still oh so apropos� |
Thanks! I've been keeping my eye out for that map for the past three years and I couldn't find it anywhere.
Thanks for the link.
Needs to be updated to mark the location of the Axis of evil, though. |
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The G-stringed Avenger
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| I saw that on "The West Wing" once where some group was trying to lobby for a change in maps that depicted Northern Hemisphere countries as larger because of some wacko theory about the white man trying to keep the natives in their place. What a bunch of codswallop! Political correctness and historical revisionism gone mad! What next? |
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ketama
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merlin
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