hi I'm sorry oh sorry to be late not a problem I'm CJ Craig of course you are I'm Dr John phow this Dr Cynthia Sals and Professor Donald huke huke huke okay and you are the organization of cartographers for social equality well we're we're from the ocsc we have many members how many 4,300 du's pay Members what are the dues $20 a year for the newsletter let's start wait wait I want to see this this is Josh Lyman indeed you are Josh this is Dr fow and who's Mary men yes should we begin yes plain and simple uh we'd like President Bartlett to aggressively support legislation that would make it mandatory for every public school in America to teach geography using the Peters projection map instead of the traditional Mercer give me 200 bucks and it's done really no why are we changing Maps uh because CJ the Mercer projection has fostered European imperialist attitudes for centuries and created an ethnic bias against the third world really the German cartographer Mercer originally designed this map in 1569 as a navigational tool for European Sailors the map enlarges areas at the poles to create straight lines of constant bearing or Geographic Direction so it makes it easier to cross an ocean but yes it distorts the relative size of Nations and continents are you saying the map is wrong oh dear yes uh look at Greenland okay now look at Africa okay the two land masses appear to be roughly the same size yes would it blow your mind if I told you that Africa is in reality 14 times larger yes here we have Europe drawn considerably larger than South America when it's 6.9 million square miles South America is almost double the size of Europe's 3.8 million Alaska appears three times as large as Mexico when Mexico is larger by .1 million square miles Germany appears in the middle of the map when in the northernmost quarter of the earth wa wait relative size is one thing but you're telling me that Germany isn't where we think it is nothing's where you think it is where is it I'm glad you asked the Peters projection it has Fidelity of AIS fidelity of position East West lines are parallel and intersect north south axes at right angles what the hell is that it's where you've been living this whole time should we continue uhhuh so you're probably wondering what all of this has to do with social equality no I'm wondering where France really is guys we want to thank you very much for coming in Hang on we're going to finish this yes okay what do maps have to do with social equality you asked she asked salvator andol of the National Council for social studies argues in our society we unconsciously equate size with importance and even power I'm going to check in on Toby go these guys find Brigadoon on that map you'll call me right probably not okay when third world countries are misrepresented they're likely to be valued less when Mercator maps exaggerate the importance of Western Civilization when the top of the map is given to a Northern Hemisphere and the bottom is given to a southern then people will tend to adopt top and bottom attitudes but wait how where else could you put the Northern Hemisphere but on the top on the bottom how like this yeah but you can't do that why not cuz it's freaking me out