Maps Distort How We See the World

Re:Maps Distort How We See the World by eevilspock on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @10:13PM (#36427250)

Feels like you're pretending that Amero-Eurocentrism is not a thing, that there is no agenda or bias to be examined or criticized.

If you've ever played Risk, the Amero-Eurocentrism is extreme.

https://cdn.matthewhaeck.com/content/images/2015/02/risk.jpg

https://freeprintableaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/risk-...

North America: 9 territories, larger than Africa. Europe: 7 territories, as large as Africa. USA: 3 territories, Canada: 5, Australia: 2 China, India, Brazil which are all very large: 1

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Re:Maps Distort How We See the World by YurgenJurgensen on Thursday June 22, 2023 @05:05AM (#36429634)

The fact that you had to pick an example from a casual board game from 1957 kind-of shows how much of a non-issue this is.

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Re:Maps Distort How We See the World by trallnag on Thursday June 22, 2023 @02:21PM (#36436515)

I'd love maps where Europe is smaller to become the norm in schools and daily use oberall. Maybe it would make people migrating here from huge and vast countries reconsider.

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