Guess the map 16: No need for that latitude!

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Boycotted the Olympics?

 

[amadeus]

I know what this is now. It’s countries that boycotted the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

Context: a lot of black African countries were upset that New Zealand’s rugby team did a tour of South Africa (which had already been banned from the Olympics as of ‘64.)

Question: “Why is Taiwan on that list if you said they were friendly to South Africa?”

Answer: Taiwan was told by the Canadian government they could not participate as the Republic of China because the Trudeau cabinet had already recognized the PRC.

 

[bene_legionary]

Ding ding ding! Well done again amadeus!

wrt the elections, the All Blacks tour only went ahead because the new National government (lead by the infamous Rob Muldoon, known for his eccentric policies, drunken snap-election announcements, and constitutional crises) reversed the previous Labour government's policy that the Springboks and the All Blacks were not to play each other because of the apartheid (unlike previous tours of South Africa, Maori players were allowed to participate, but they were deemed 'honourary whites'...) This led to the Springbok Tour riots in NZ 5 years later which culminated in a plane buzzing Eden Park and dropping flour bombs over the rugby players.

wrt colonialism, those African countries were very recently decolonised and this was one of the first actions they took as a united bloc.

Zaire didn't participate in the Olympics because of its economy, so that is why they aren't highlighted on the map.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

So why did Albania, Iraq and Syria refuse to participate?

Edit: Read the wiki page.

The boycott was led by Congolese official Jean-Claude Ganga. Some of the boycotting nations (including Morocco, Cameroon and Egypt) had already participated, however, and withdrew after the first few days. Senegal and Ivory Coast were the only African countries that competed throughout the duration of the Games. Elsewhere, Afghanistan, Albania, Burma, Iraq, Guyana, Sri Lanka and Syria also opted to join the Congolese-led boycott. South Africa had been banned from the Olympics since 1964 due to its apartheid policies. Other countries, such as El Salvador and Zaire, did not participate in Montreal for purely economic reasons.

 

[amadeus]

I haven’t done any reading into it but my guess would be that Iraq (especially) and Syria both were at this time working to succeed Egypt as the “leader of the Arab world” and wanted to get the newly independent black African countries on their side.

Albania, on the other hand, was already isolated from the Soviet bloc (revisionists!), the Western bloc (capitalist-imperialists!), and now the Chinese (more revisionists!) so it had nowhere else to go.

 

[amadeus]

This map is from 1927.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Average no. of children per family?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Male children in military serivice

 

[amadeus]

Average no. of children per family?

Male children in military serivice

It is neither of these.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Is it connected to some kind of economic activity?

 

[amadeus]

Is it connected to some kind of economic activity?

Without intent to deceive, it is tangentially related to an economic activity.

I feel like John Daly giving these clues. Kitty Carlisle, you are up.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Kitty was on To Tell the Truth; John Daly was on What's My Line. But shhh.... I won't say anything.

 

[amadeus]

I blanked out and forgot Arlene Francis’ name there. Should have gone with Bennett Cerf.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Female-to-male ratio in the workforce?

 

[amadeus]

Female-to-male ratio in the workforce?

Nein, Herr Campersang.

Cryptic as it may have been I think I accurately said: it is tangentially related to an economic activity, singular.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Beer brewing, drinking, number of beer halls?

 

[amadeus]

Beer brewing, drinking, number of beer halls?

There is no alcohol (or any beverage) in this map.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

The numbers represent a ratio?

 

[Samson]

Is it describing the rather well known political changes that were incurring around that time?

 

[amadeus]

The numbers represent a ratio?

No.

Is it describing the rather well known political changes that were incurring around that time?

Also no.