The USA world view

On February 26 2006 · 5 Comments · In Diary

Usa world view

Sent by someone in the US with a sense of humour…


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  • nick

    What’s a mousehead?  I am of course deeply offended being half Canadian…eh

  • http://taoofpolitics.blogspot.com Ed Bremson

    This is not an unfair representation of the United States, how we use other countries, and how we know very little about the world outside our own borders. The only thing I might change about the map would be to put the USA in the center, because that’s where most of us think we are.

  • http://www.spikydog.com/ Nathan

    Nick – for Mousehead read Moosehead – I think it’s a typo on an otherwise excellent and highly accurate map.

    An impressive admission Ed, but then I doubt very much that the map is representative of your point of view?

    There are a lot of fine examples of maps that have been altered to take the emphasis away from London GMT as the center of the universe, but it’s historically always been that way because 0 degrees longitude sits at Greenwich – so I guess the British think we’re in the center as well. Upside down maps and the like do make a refreshing change, and even the projection of maps has been tinkered with in the past to give greater emphasis to the huge landmasses of the developing world… so this map of the US, even though it is satirical, is only one in a long line of maps being used as political statements.

    See http://www.flourish.org/upsidedownmap – my favourite, first seen in a toilet in New Zealand, is http://www.flourish.org/upsidedownmap/wizard-large.jpg

  • MrsDanvers

    A fine map and thanks for the link , I realy enjoyed reading that.
    I was stunned the first time I saw the Peters projection http://www.petersmap.com/

  • http://www.spikydog.com/ Nathan

    Thanks MrsDanvers – yep, the Peters Projection is one we have at home here. It gives a very different perspective on things.