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final_aeon
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UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows tr...
Is that why we adopted the Mercator projection? No, it's not
VertanaNinjai
40 days ago
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I don’t know who “we” is, but seeing as this map was made in the 1500s by a European there is certainly an argument to be made that it is rooted in a Euro-centric view of the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-...
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