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1 year ago13 points(+0/-0/+13Score on mirror)2 children
This makes no sense. The fact that White people tend to live more northernly, where there is more distortion on the Mercator projection, is a coincidence. The Mercator projection depicts things closer to the equator more accurately, at the expense of distorting what's closer to the poles. It's impossible to accurately depict a globe on a flat plane.
1 year ago4 points(+0/-0/+4Score on mirror)1 child
This is correct. Maps are a flat 2d representation of the surface of a round(ish) earth. In order to do this, you have to warp and distort the actual surface to get it to fit in a rectangle. There are many solutions to this problem, and these are called projections. You can accurately depict, or "preserve" certain properties of the surface of the earth, but not all of them at the same time in any given projection. The relevant properties are shape, area, distance, and direction. You can have a map more or less accurately depict one or more of these properties depending on your use case, but never all of them at once. This means different projections are more useful than others in different contexts. If you want a map for navigating a ship, you likely want to preserve distance/direction. If you want to do an analysis of regional crop diversity and land use or forestry industry mature timber reserves for example, you might want to preserve area. The Mercator protection is just one of these projections and the rationale for its use in any given context is much more nuanced than simply to give the illusion that White people are a majority or that we occupy some "unfair" portion of the earth's landmass.
Truth is that the world is far from "overpopulated", but most places around the world lacks the basic infrastructure to house millions of people within one small space. This is the real reason why mass immigration is such a disaster. It takes a lot of time to build infrastructure, including support infrastructure.
Third world countries lacks infrastructure too, despite their massive size, hence how they end up with massive slums and horrible living conditions as everyone flocks to big cities to try their luck doing whatever it takes to earn a few shekels. That behavior doesn't change once these camel masturbators are shipped to the west, they always flock to big cities, living cramped together in very dense apartment blocks.
Third world countries lacks infrastructure too, despite their massive size, hence how they end up with massive slums and horrible living conditions as everyone flocks to big cities to try their luck doing whatever it takes to earn a few shekels. That behavior doesn't change once these camel masturbators are shipped to the west, they always flock to big cities, living cramped together in very dense apartment blocks.
100% accurately, not. but you can close to it.
the factual map is closer.
and it was done on purpose btw. as everything is in this world, all scripted.