It started as a student's project in Michigan. He asked a bunch of other students to draw a map of the world from memory.
And via Reddit it ended up in the German conservative paper Die Welt under the headline "Forgotten Countries: When American Students draw a World Map".
The first indication that we are looking at a hatchet job is the term "Studenten" in the German headline. To Die Welt: It is Schueler in German, cause it happened in highschool (which ain't Hochschule in German either). Students still are college and up in the K-Land.
The intro of the article has some blah about psychology and cognition to lead up to the main point: the maps reflect the cultural view of America, its attitude towards the wider world.
At the very end of the article, there is a part we in the biz call redemption: German students don't do a stellar job either on this task.
The optimists in the K-Landnews news room would like to direct readers to the maps used by our famous explorers well into the 19th century.
You cannot compare these!
I'm not. The comparison map would be the one by the Chinese explorers who were among every Tom, Dick and Harry who discovered America before the Christoph.
If I lived in the Marianas Trench, I'd be pissed about not finding my home on the map either.
The simple fact of the matter is: you do not have to be able to draw that ideal map of the world.
Like handwriting, okay.
But thanks for the easy target of wholesale satirical condemnation.
Here is the screen shot (Die Welt would call this a Bildschirmschuß, I guess).
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