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Re:The Map You Grew Up with Is a Lie. This Is What the World... by dsego on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:49PM (#26042661)
Is this somehow news to people? Don't they teach map projections in school anymore?
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Re:The Map You Grew Up with Is a Lie. This Is What the World... by Spooky23 on Friday February 05, 2021 @07:20PM (#26042900)
Some people see it as a symbol of oppression because Europe and North America look bigger.

I’m not sure why an oversized projection of Greenland is exploitive, but it garners attention from people interested in such things.

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Re:The Map You Grew Up with Is a Lie. This Is What the World... by lupire on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:03PM (#26043480)
Because it overemphasizes the importance of Europe and North America, and Canada and Asia, and makes Greenland look silly.
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Re:The Map You Grew Up with Is a Lie. This Is What the World... by coldtea on Friday February 05, 2021 @07:32PM (#26042962)
In many parts of the world they never did.
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