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How would you redraw the map of the world? Discuss today's Found Object.
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Nikolas Schiller has created hundreds of maps that range from abstract to satirical., including dozens of Los Angeles. Most recently he created alternative Absolut ad called "Absolut Statehood" and it shows the boundary of the District of Columbia as it was in 1846 before Virginia ceded back the western portion of the District.
Absolut Statehood for Google Earth:
http://nikolasschiller.com/gis/absolut_statehood.kmz
His write-up can be found @ http://www.nikolasschiller.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/04/08/1355/
2. great piece, i linked it. why are people mad about history being shoved in their face? http://ex-presidents.blogspot.com/
3. Lighten up, everybody. It's a vodka commercial.
4. Jane, I don't think you have your facts straightened up, you should really reasearch on your history not just read from wherever you're reading. If you're willing to learn from unbiased sources, at least read the description of the Mexican-American War from wikipedia. You can't read about this war from your History text books from school because it doesn't have (misteriously) the detail it should have.
5. I really hope dionysis is joking about his comment, which at best makes him look as a racist. By the way, that narrow vision of saying that "The spoils of war go to the victors" is just a poor justification of the greed and ambition of others. Iraq is a very clear example of your "spoils". By the way, you can't even govern yourselves either as exemplified by voting for Bush not once, but twice.
6. Jack at 10:16 is typical of the Reconquistas who think that Americans object to Mexicans' demand to "regain" the west because we're "incredibly ignorant of our past,' Hey Jack, Mexico lost the land in battle, and when we got it, it was nothing but giant estates owned by oligarchs and the Catholic church. They'd enslaved and killed off Indians -- who are furious that Mexicans claim to be the "real Americans," ask Chumash! -- forcing them to build their missions. Meztizos/ "impure" Mexicans were nothing. -- It was much what Mexico is like today, read YOUR history, Jack. That's why you come here to drag down OUR country.
7. If the Absolut map gets even a small fraction of Americans, especially but not exclusively in the west and southwest, to actually study their history to find out how the country grew, it will be a good thing. In general we are incredibly ignorant of our past. Polk and others like him did everything in their power to goad Mexico into a war in order to snatch Mexican territory and the brand the mexicans as the interlopers and criminals.
8. If this has little to do with our political boundaries, that tells you more about our political boundaries than it does about the facts on the ground.
9. "Aztlan" may be about a romantic dream, but "MexAmerica" is a place that has for centuries been indelibly shaped by the melding and sometimes collision of Anglo and Mexican culture and values. That's a fact. By the way, the part of MexAmerica that is in northern Mexico is as different from the rest of Mexico as the American Southwest is from, say, Boston. This creation of a new world has been a two-way street for a long time.
10. Thanks for the nice mention, but in "The Nine Nations of North America," I never argued that this was the way the world *should* work. I said it was the way the world *does* work. "Nine Nations" started as a news map. Since news is driven all sorts of forces including economics, demographics, ecology and history, it naturally becomes a telling indicator of culture and values -- who we are, how we got that way, where we're headed and what makes us tick.
Submitted by: J.M.Pierce
2. great piece, i linked it. why are people mad about history being shoved in their face? http://ex-presidents.blogspot.com/
Submitted by: tc
3. Lighten up, everybody. It's a vodka commercial.
Submitted by: Harry Ward Bailey
4. Jane, I don't think you have your facts straightened up, you should really reasearch on your history not just read from wherever you're reading. If you're willing to learn from unbiased sources, at least read the description of the Mexican-American War from wikipedia. You can't read about this war from your History text books from school because it doesn't have (misteriously) the detail it should have.
Submitted by: rkimoto
5. I really hope dionysis is joking about his comment, which at best makes him look as a racist. By the way, that narrow vision of saying that "The spoils of war go to the victors" is just a poor justification of the greed and ambition of others. Iraq is a very clear example of your "spoils". By the way, you can't even govern yourselves either as exemplified by voting for Bush not once, but twice.
Submitted by: rkimoto
6. Jack at 10:16 is typical of the Reconquistas who think that Americans object to Mexicans' demand to "regain" the west because we're "incredibly ignorant of our past,' Hey Jack, Mexico lost the land in battle, and when we got it, it was nothing but giant estates owned by oligarchs and the Catholic church. They'd enslaved and killed off Indians -- who are furious that Mexicans claim to be the "real Americans," ask Chumash! -- forcing them to build their missions. Meztizos/ "impure" Mexicans were nothing. -- It was much what Mexico is like today, read YOUR history, Jack. That's why you come here to drag down OUR country.
Submitted by: jane
7. If the Absolut map gets even a small fraction of Americans, especially but not exclusively in the west and southwest, to actually study their history to find out how the country grew, it will be a good thing. In general we are incredibly ignorant of our past. Polk and others like him did everything in their power to goad Mexico into a war in order to snatch Mexican territory and the brand the mexicans as the interlopers and criminals.
Submitted by: Jack
8. If this has little to do with our political boundaries, that tells you more about our political boundaries than it does about the facts on the ground.
Submitted by: Joel Garreau
9. "Aztlan" may be about a romantic dream, but "MexAmerica" is a place that has for centuries been indelibly shaped by the melding and sometimes collision of Anglo and Mexican culture and values. That's a fact. By the way, the part of MexAmerica that is in northern Mexico is as different from the rest of Mexico as the American Southwest is from, say, Boston. This creation of a new world has been a two-way street for a long time.
Submitted by: Joel Garreau
10. Thanks for the nice mention, but in "The Nine Nations of North America," I never argued that this was the way the world *should* work. I said it was the way the world *does* work. "Nine Nations" started as a news map. Since news is driven all sorts of forces including economics, demographics, ecology and history, it naturally becomes a telling indicator of culture and values -- who we are, how we got that way, where we're headed and what makes us tick.
Submitted by: Joel Garreau
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