Mercator and Peters Projection Map

Today in class, our teacher wasn't present, for which he was taking his Television Production class on a field trip to the Newseum in Washington, DC. I re-watched the video that talked about the Peters Projection and Mercator Map. I think that the points being made in the video were very valid and evidential. The Mercator Map has fostered Europeon imperialist attitudes for centuries and created an ethnic bias against a third world. The Mercator Map was also designed in 1569 as a navigational tool for Europeon sailors. It distorts the relative size of nations and continents. Greenland and Africa appear to be roughly the same size, but in reality Africa is 14 times bigger than Greenland. Also, Alaska appears three times as large as Mexico, when Mexico is larger by 0.1 million square miles. The Peters Projection Map shows and describes where the continents and nations are on the map. There are many, many differences bewteen the two maps, these differences could affect the way we look at the world.