The U.S. was the only country to not support a United Nations resolution adjusting the appearance of Africa and other regions on world maps.
The body passed the “Correct the Map” initiative by a margin of 164 to one, with six nations abstaining from the vote.
The resolution, which was introduced by the West African country Togo, does not require the abandonment of the long-used Mercator projection. It instead encourages the use of equal-area projections that more accurately depict relative country sizes.
Yaryna Ferencevych, the deputy U.S. representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, said in a statement explaining the U.S.’s vote that this measure, “mocks the work and purpose of this institution.”
“Instead of focusing on genuine problems of international peace, prosperity, or good relations, this body is debating map projects from the 16th century, and their role in promoting reparations and ‘cognitive justice,’” she said.
On the books. But not in practice.
Yeah kinda. All the units are now rational scales of the standard metric units (e.g. 1in ==2.54cm). The reason why USonians use the adjusted imperial units is due to how federalism made it difficult to get the populace to change over. The powerful fed is new to the last 50 years.
Things like nutrition facts are all in standard metric, along with the vast majority of federal laws.
Go into most science fields and they are all metric as well. I’ve worked in healthcare for the past decade plus and most important things are all metric.
Yeah it’s definitely used in all research I’m familiar with in the US. And I personally use cm over inches for every-day applications. But I’m not great with weights or liquids. Of either format. And I really struggle with Celsius.
Never heard that before, i like it
It was used to differ from “Americans” because it felt like that included the government. IDK.
I don’t blame you, it’s great!