http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...erent-maps

According to this article, there is a project designed to make a more accurate world map that will remove the inaccuracies of the old Mercator world map - which artificially inflates the size of land masses towards the poles (thus giving the West an overinflated sense of self worth...)

Quote:By contrast, the map known as the Peters projection, which city authorities are now meting out to many of the city's classrooms, is a relative fledgling. Introduced at a conference in Germany in 1974, historian Arno Peters' map aims to fix the Mercator's inaccuracies, which vastly exaggerate the size of land masses approaching the north and south poles — and in doing so, help prop up a decidedly eurocentric worldview.

But when you look at it - all it really does is overestimates the sizes of the land masses in the southern hemisphere up to the tropic of cancer, and then it decreases the size of the northern lands. What is supposed to be "more realistic" actually reveals an equally distorted map - and not even symmetrically distorted but blatantly attempting to make the lands towards the northern part of the world look small. Really, I guess it comes down to a white privilege guilt thing?

Too funny!