Altered Maps XVIII: Continuing Curious Cartography
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Detail (because in the main map you can't read most of the percentages). Portugal (not shown) is at 25.1%.
I expected more people to speak French at a decent level in South America, given their supposed historical sympathy towards France (because it peninsular war-ed Spain and allowed them to be liberated).
I expected more people to speak French at a decent level in South America, given their supposed historical sympathy towards France (because it peninsular war-ed Spain and allowed them to be liberated).
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That's better, thank you
Things that surprised me
- it's still 50% in Djibouti?
- lower than I thought in Morocco, even urban areas, thought it would be more comparable to urban Algeria, Tunisia
- higher than I thought in Britain and Ireland
- some full members of La Francophonie have very low % indeed, eg. Armenia, even lower than I thought (I was expecting maybe like 2-5%)
- colonial influence still very much alive and well in Africa but has pretty much disappeared in Asia except Lebanon (again I was expecting 2-5% for formerly French India for example)
- pretty big difference between Jersey and Guernsey
Things that surprised me
- it's still 50% in Djibouti?
- lower than I thought in Morocco, even urban areas, thought it would be more comparable to urban Algeria, Tunisia
- higher than I thought in Britain and Ireland
- some full members of La Francophonie have very low % indeed, eg. Armenia, even lower than I thought (I was expecting maybe like 2-5%)
- colonial influence still very much alive and well in Africa but has pretty much disappeared in Asia except Lebanon (again I was expecting 2-5% for formerly French India for example)
- pretty big difference between Jersey and Guernsey
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Catalan is so damn close to French that nearly 20% of us speak it without even studying or even trying it. In fact, I picked a book written in French from the library back when I was 15 years old and a I could understand it all despite the fact that I've never studied French in my entire life. Only a few words here and there eluded me but I could easily understand them thanks to the context or a quick search in the dictionary.
Catalan and French are the last survivors of the once much more diverse Gallo-Romance language subfamily. If it wasn't for the current borders, people would be associating us with our close bros (Occitans) and distant bros (French and Lombards) much more than with Spaniards. We are neither Iberian nor Gallic. We are definitely something in between.
Catalan and French are the last survivors of the once much more diverse Gallo-Romance language subfamily. If it wasn't for the current borders, people would be associating us with our close bros (Occitans) and distant bros (French and Lombards) much more than with Spaniards. We are neither Iberian nor Gallic. We are definitely something in between.
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Somewhat surprised at the mixed feelings of Slovenes, although it was already one of the more prosperous areas of Yugoslavia even since its inception if I recall correctly.
I wonder what the map would look like if they distinguished between Bosnian Serbs and Muslims.
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Slovenia also had the benefit of a peaceful exit (10 day war) as compared to Croatia or Bosnia.
You'd need to ask Harvard ^^ I suspect it is a list which includes a parameter for historical ties/culture (in South America they appear to have all countries apart from those with significant native/non-european populations).
I know better than Harvard
Western Core: long-standing membership in a formal military alliance or neutrals nonetheless closely aligned, comparable levels of economic development and liberal democratic systems, perceptions of common or similar identities, cultures, institutions and long historical associations
Western Periphery: newer additions to the core military alliance and/or economic community or otherwise having strong ties to the Western Core but some other thing prevents closer integration (too new, too poor, too brown, too Muslim, too illiberal, not integrated enough), but with potential to graduate to Western Core in the future
Westernised Outliers: economic development comparable to the Western Core and having adopted many Western-style institutions but not part of the West proper for ethnocultural and/or cultural reasons and unlikely to become so.
Undergoing Westernisation: existing historical or cultural connections to the West and pursuing integration into the Western military alliance and/or economic community, adopting Western-style institutions and so on.
Undergoing De-Westernisation: may be considered part of the Western Core or Periphery or could be undergoing Westernisation due to historical or ethnocultural reasons, but detaching themselves from the Western political and economic project and/or culturally, promoting an identity in opposition or as an alternative to the West.
Western Core: long-standing membership in a formal military alliance or neutrals nonetheless closely aligned, comparable levels of economic development and liberal democratic systems, perceptions of common or similar identities, cultures, institutions and long historical associations
Western Periphery: newer additions to the core military alliance and/or economic community or otherwise having strong ties to the Western Core but some other thing prevents closer integration (too new, too poor, too brown, too Muslim, too illiberal, not integrated enough), but with potential to graduate to Western Core in the future
Westernised Outliers: economic development comparable to the Western Core and having adopted many Western-style institutions but not part of the West proper for ethnocultural and/or cultural reasons and unlikely to become so.
Undergoing Westernisation: existing historical or cultural connections to the West and pursuing integration into the Western military alliance and/or economic community, adopting Western-style institutions and so on.
Undergoing De-Westernisation: may be considered part of the Western Core or Periphery or could be undergoing Westernisation due to historical or ethnocultural reasons, but detaching themselves from the Western political and economic project and/or culturally, promoting an identity in opposition or as an alternative to the West.
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I believe Pakistan is more light-coloured than the rest due to their transgender laws, but the 'transgenders' are actually hermaphrodites.
Iran should probably be light-coloured since they allow sex reassignment surgeries (though it's a complicated matter).
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Unfortunately Georgia should be considered to be undergoing de-westernisation now. 
I had such high hopes, but Georgian Dream just had to turn out to be a Russian front.
I had such high hopes, but Georgian Dream just had to turn out to be a Russian front.
Third gender Pakistanis are not in fact 'actually hermaphrodites' they're... third gender.
Contemporary Western gender ideas don't translate directly cross-culturally and vice versa.
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Is that not what hermaphroditism means?
Reduce whale-ship strikes by making 2.6% of ocean surface safer
Spatial overlap between whales and shipping traffic.
(A) Average annual whale space use across blue, fin, humpback, and sperm whales. (B) Global marine shipping traffic for large (>300 gross tons) vessels, from AIS data from 2017 to 2022. The shipping traffic index weights shipping density by vessel speed on a log-scale, standardized between 0 and 1. (C) Bivariate map showing the intensity of both whale space use and shipping traffic in each 1° by 1° grid cell.
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Spatial overlap between whales and shipping traffic.
(A) Average annual whale space use across blue, fin, humpback, and sperm whales. (B) Global marine shipping traffic for large (>300 gross tons) vessels, from AIS data from 2017 to 2022. The shipping traffic index weights shipping density by vessel speed on a log-scale, standardized between 0 and 1. (C) Bivariate map showing the intensity of both whale space use and shipping traffic in each 1° by 1° grid cell.
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Spoiler The 2.6% :
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