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The map was done that way to represent a globe on a flat surface and the size distortion is caused by straightening the latitude lines, not to create an ethnic bias against the third world. People certainly took on that attitude but that was not the intent of this map. Sometimes a distorted map is just that, a distorted map. Also, Marcator was a Flemish cartographer, not German. Im not defending Mercator, but its impossible to know what he might have felt towards the third world.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 00:26:31 +0000

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