Subject: Re: My two cents on AMAZ enclaves
Date: Sep 22, 2004 @ 22:49
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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> Arif wrote:a euripidean chorus couldnt have said it better
>
> > American and Western European maps
> > have clouded Mike and almost everybody else's mind on
> > the subject that what maps draw are imaginary lines
> > and not statements of facts. These lines can be
> > imagined by different countries according to their own
> > thought. I have seen enclaves appear and disappear
> > from Bangladeshi maps two or three times knowing full
> > well that they did exist. Just because it didn't show
> > up on a map does not mean it didn't exist. I wouldn't
> > be surprised if such uncertain boundary mapping was
> > the norm instead of the exception outside the Western
> > countries.
>
> All to often, maps are nothing more than propaganda.
> source.Orleans world's fair
> I remember entering the Peruvian pavilion at the 1984 New
> to be greeted by a wall-sized map depicting the Peruvianversion of the
> Ecuador-Peru boundary.why did you ever think to do that
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA