Unless they occidentally hung it upside-down.
Umm, no.
Just, no.
Nobody appointed Pierre Le Fou to speak on behalf of the left. You’ll note that Der Trihs, who is as liberal as anyone on this board, is not supporting this idea.
Doesn’t that depend on whether you consider Indonesia part of Asia or Oceania? Because Indonesia is the only part of (maybe) Asia that has lands south of the equator.
Yes, it is evil.
Just kidding, of course it isn’t.
Start pointing those neurons in a direction that matters.
I’m shocked that no one has mentioned time zones. Basing our time zones on Greenwich, London is clearly the cause of all evil. cue scary music Don’t even get me started on daylight savings time.
Well, YEAH! I mean, how come we’re only saving daylight? Huh? Huh? What about all the dark skinned people who might like night better? What about them? WON’T SOMEONE THINK ABOUT THE NIGHT-LOVING DARK-SKINNED CHILDREN AND STOP THE MADNESS!!!
Hey, this is fun! Let’s talk about why up is up next!
The people who made the effort to chart the entire fucking planet and create the map can orient it any way they damn well please.
Go chart the planet yourself (without using someone else’s map), and I’ll have some respect for how you choose to orient your map. Do it with 17th century technology, and no benefit at all from modern technology (including no modern boat, canned food, navigation equipment, etc.) and I might consider buying one.
Until then - it’s easy to be an armchair general and pontificate about things you had no input in whatsoever, and couldn’t possibly achieve yourself.
Just like people can colonize and enslave whomever they want. You should look beyond what people can do and look at what they should do. The United States could nuke Mexico, but that is not something the US should do.
The north orientation is evil. The orientation was used against people that were colonized and enslaved.
You can be on the side of people that raped entire cultures. I will be on the side of angels.
The OP is clearly thinking much too small. The most of the world’s landmass is in the Northern Hemisphere because of plate tectonics. But just who came up with this plate tectonics theory? Who made the continents start moving in the first place? In other words, cui bono from a north-oriented world? The conclusion is inescapable: Santa Claus. He did it to drive up property values and keep away anyone who might start asking questions about his tax-free elf slave labor. IT ALL FITS TOGETHER!
I’ve actually witnessed this cartographic debate live. 2nd year GIS class when I was an undergrad in 2000. At the time university campuses in Canada were still pushing a lot of post-colonial stuff on the students (not saying it was bad, just saying there was lots…not sure what the undergrad flavour in today’s classrooms) and GIS had to jump on the bandwagon to stay relevant as a ‘real’ university activity.
I’ll give the OP some benefit in the assertion that north-centric projections perpetuate colonialism, racism etc. Maps are more powerful tools than most people realize in forging national narratives, cultural confidence, stereotypes etc. That said, while I recognize the argument, I don’t think it is strong enough to perpetuate a massive change in standard map orientation or become so blindingly impassioned like the OP. Anyone who is an educator may want to point out that while maps can oriented in any direction for feel-good fuzzy political feelings, it is international standard practice to navigate and conduct land/ocean surveys with north oriented at the top of the page.
IMHO, regarding maps, it’s not the orientation that the OP should be getting all bent-out-of-shape over, but the tricky art of map projection.
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Gosh, no. I’ve heard this complaint for decades. People are deadly serious about it.
I’m looking at a map of the world right now and every square inch of mainland Asia is north of the Equator. If you were to count Indonesia as being Asia then you coulod say parts of Asia are in the Southern Hemisphere but you have to admit that it’s reasonable to state “Asia’s entirely in the Northern Hemisphere” as long as we understand you mean the mainland.
Having said that, I think the “mainland” qualifier is important, because geographically most of Indonesia is in fact part of Asia.
According to Wiki, 90% of the earth’s population is in the Northern hemisphere, as well as most of the land.
Aha! So that’s why the Inuits and Lapps have such influence in the world.
And they’re constantly looking down on us!
No, the Claus family, their elf workforce, and Superman are.
Pierre, don’t let these folks and their northern platitudes disorient you.
You’ve charted your course, hold firm and sail right along it, dude.
Why does B always have to be the second letter in the alphabet?! That’s not fair. Why do we let A hog all the glory? It’s selfish! I demand a rotating alphabet order so all 26 letters can democratically have a turn at being first.
Don’t forget Mr Popper’s penguins.
Oops, I missed Canadjun’s post. My apologies.