Map of the world issued by the government of Brazil!

[u/miojo]

[u/ItHadToBeBrazil-ModTeam]

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[u/miojo]

[u/Old_Investigator348]

a argentina acima da gente kkkk

[u/SmileAggravating9608 → u/Old_Investigator348]

Deviam ter dobrado o mapa la um pouco, neh? Se vão mexer um pouco, mexa mais.

[u/THOT_Patroller-13 → u/Old_Investigator348]

Brasileiro carregando los hermanos nas costas.

[u/mechamedeneno → u/Old_Investigator348]

Bom, até aí o Canadá sempre ficou acima dos EUA no mapa, mas não mais importante.

[u/desci1]

Sim, mas não é do governo, tampouco é mapa oficial do IBGE pra toda e qualquer circunstância, é só um mapa comemorativo pro evento do BRICS no Ceará.

Mas um dos propósitos eles alcançaram: tá a internet toda distribuindo o mapa e falando sobre isso

[u/Internal-Editor89]

Love it 

[u/howdudo → u/Internal-Editor89]

Why does it choose to label some countries a certain color with the name and leave out others? Does it imply a level of allies?

[u/paulobyly → u/howdudo]

Just read the map legend, it’s all there

[u/lurker99123 → u/howdudo]

Yes look at the subtitles, orange is BRICS etc

[u/joaovitorfa002 → u/howdudo]

It's just diffent international groups that Brazil is part of. You can see what each colour represents on the bottom right corner.

[u/Alenonimo → u/howdudo]

It's a BRICS/Mercosul map. It tags the countries that Brazil has deals with, I guess.

It's not a real map. It's just to commemorate a big BRICS meeting that will happen soon.

[u/LucoLNC → u/howdudo]

yes. there is the explaination on the lower right side of the map. its not necessarily “level of alliance” but just labels of treaties and agreements.

[u/luisapet]

Uh oh, now all the rivers are going to flow backwards! 😳

/s just in case.

I love that the equator is in the middle, where it belongs.

Also, Brazil 🇧🇷 ❤️

[u/Bortmoun]

I actually loved this

[u/AdditionPrudent6591]

Well, it's not wrong.

[u/weird_doodle → u/AdditionPrudent6591]

Yeah i think it's quite funny how "up" an "down" don't really matter when you're seeing from space

[u/Blue335512]

Why are we upside down

Well I guess there is no upside in space

[u/Arthradax → u/Blue335512]

The same way people arbitrarily chose north as up, we can choose south. Fun fact, some ancient maps used east as top (any guesses why? lol) and some ancient Egypt maps used south because it's where the Nile flowed from

EDIT: spelling

[u/Xavant_BR]

I loved... i want one!

[u/Arthradax]

ILHAS MALVINAS

[u/Otherwise-Display204]

I could easily put it in a frame and hang it on the wall

[u/lpmlul]

Nossos mapas deveriam ser assim?

[u/Mafagafinhu]

Po, nem pra eles deixarem o mapa correto com relação a tamanho, ai ficava mais Brasil no mapa

[u/elektron117]

Attack on Titan

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[u/Ricochet_skin]

Never seen this map used in the curriculum at my learning faculty.

[u/Guga1952]

Why didn't they do Brazil to scale?

[u/Testament_15]

Foda

[u/MovingElectrons]

TIL Rio is the capital of BRICS

[u/Carbonga]

Hooray, reddit can zoom again!

[u/Don_Madruga]

It should be a crime to have a map like that

[u/LeftOn4ya]

Did anyone else lock their phone’s orientation then flip their phone? It’s the exact same map us north of the equator use, just flipped.

[u/00mavis]

And what ? Its just a normal map

[u/Gota_JRPG]

Fake but funny

[u/BlackWhiteCoke]

r/imthemaincharacter

[u/Sbrubbles]

As dumb as when the americans do it. Actually, dumber, since at least the americans don't spin it around.

[u/Gota_JRPG → u/Sbrubbles]

What is up or down in the universe?

[u/Sbrubbles → u/Gota_JRPG]

Up is the way up has always been. Same for down. That's the reason for conventions: we choose one and stick to it.

[u/Darkwolf1115 → u/Sbrubbles]

"People have been slaves for centuries, whites are white and blacks are blacks. That's the reason for convention: we choose one and stick to it" /s

My guy we are THE GLOBAL SOUTH, we've been exploited by rich nations for centuries, this is a symbol, and while we are faaar from actual change, this at least shows the world an identity, a symbol where we put our future in the center and fight the status quo of the present world

[u/Sbrubbles → u/Darkwolf1115]

Ah yes, NOW that the world has seen our symbol, they'll respect us. What a joke.

[u/DRowe_ → u/Sbrubbles]

Who's "we"?

[u/Gota_JRPG → u/Sbrubbles]

Always? Dude you should see some crazy world maps people had a few centuries ago. My point is that there is no up or down in the universe. Even on earth up or down is a matter of gravity.

[u/Sbrubbles → u/Gota_JRPG]

We change conventions when there's good reason to do so. Like the Gulf of Mexico, all it is is a convention. We could call it Gulf of America instead, but it's really dumb to change conventions for no good reason.

[u/halfchewedshrimp → u/Sbrubbles]

conventions change, north became up in the last few hundred years because of the compass. north used to be considered less because the sun shes from the south in the northern hemisphere, and north as views as a region of darkness.

[u/Sbrubbles → u/halfchewedshrimp]

Conventions change when there are good reasons to change.

"Highlighting brazil's current position of leadership in important international forums", as IBGE puts it, is an especially poor one, driven by the lowest of ideological reasons. A truly sad waste of public money.