The World Maps

Today in class, we learned that we've been lied to all of our lives. In fact, we apparently don't even know the size of Greenland. Yes that is an overreaction, but my mind was still blown. When I first saw the clip, I thought it was all fiction. How could they make a map that is wrong and still use it? I would think that if you knew a map was very incorrect and displayed unfair love to countries, then they would switch out the maps to the correct one. Well there is no correct map since the map is in the shape of a spheroid and a map is on a flat piece of paper. I also saw that we don't always have to look the north side of the map first. I always assumed that the map was supposed to be faced in that direction. It is only faced like that so North America is seen first. Poor Australia is always seen at the bottom, but if you flip the map you can see it first. This topic today seemed to anger some of my classmates and I understand why. Todays lesson was one of my favorites so far.