Mr. Schick ditched the Honors Human Geography class today. After we cried about Mr. Schick being on a field trip with his class, Mr. Blair read out our assignment for the day. It is to "rewatch the clip that was shown in class and in your blog, describe the points made by the cartographers. Are they valid points? You may wish to explain whether you agree or disagree with these points, and why."
In the clip, the said that the Mercator map created an ethnic bias against a third world, Germany.
I see how they could say this because when I look at the map, right in the middle in Germany. I don't know if this was done on purpose, but it is very suspicious. If you did however face the map upside, that would put America on the bottom and Germany no longer in the middle. That leads us to the question, does size and position equate to power in todays society? I do agree with this statement because personally I never even think of Australia. I know that it's a country, but it's never one of the first ones to pop into my head. I do agree that this is because it's at the very bottom of the map so not many people acknowledge it.
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