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My son is resisting watching this because "it's important but not VERY important" but thanks for this cool video

On second thought, I dislike how the US is a yardstick to measure other countries' shape and size against Why?!

YummyMummy wrote:My son is resisting watching this because "it's important but not VERY important" but thanks for this cool video

On second thought, I dislike how the US is a yardstick to measure other countries' shape and size against Why?!

Because it's a country everyone knows and can sorta point out on a map. You can't have Greenland as your yardstick. Britain is tiny and Russia is evil

MujahidAishah wrote:

YummyMummy wrote:My son is resisting watching this because "it's important but not VERY important" but thanks for this cool video

On second thought, I dislike how the US is a yardstick to measure other countries' shape and size against Why?!

Because it's a country everyone knows and can sorta point out on a map. You can't have Greenland as your yardstick. Britain is tiny and Russia is evil

I thought that's where the company and most of its audience are based? But I guess you could also be right... they could have used Australia? And they never mentioned China... I wonder why they didn't compare that against the US

Haven't a clue, maybe it's because the vid maker is American?
The Greenland distortion is ridiculous though,don't you think

I saw that in one episode of west-wing back in the day,I believe it was early 2001, it blew my mind, so I ran the nearest internet cafe so I could google it( Didn't have pc back then, don't judge me) I wonder if I can find that episode on youtube......brb.......oh shit.

Cool vid

YummyMummy wrote:My son is resisting watching this because "it's important but not VERY important" but thanks for this cool video

On second thought, I dislike how the US is a yardstick to measure other countries' shape and size against Why?!

Maybe because the uploader is American or maybe because YouTube is American .. owned by google who is also American....and because the Internet is American ..... and most information available on the internet is American-focussed ... and because Americans assume everyone on the Internet is American .....and because we Americans are very self-centered ,
get it !!

I I knew about this since history class my professor told us the world map is distorted to make america and europe larger.nice video though. This video is most likely made by an american so that's why the usa comparison to other places.

A big chunk of Canada is surrounded with ice, totally unfit for habitation. Same for Africa, a big chunk is just desert land.

So Somalia is literally the centre of the world.

This is just an international version of my tuulo is bigger than yours shyt with all the xigto miis and bais that you would expect from fadhi kudirir enthusiast snetters
Nothing fancy.

You guys should watch the vid Agentofchaos posted for context and background