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- px said: me too
- Ben Beltran said: chistoso, hace rato estaba hablando de esto con un compa
- ani625 said: Looks like palin drew this..
- Lemming, and proud of it! said: Me too
- Pramod said: east or west?
- Tom said: first!
- Norbert Csík said: Ezek a hülye amerikaiak azt hiszik, hogy ők a világ közepe. Pedig mi vagyunk :)
- Chris said: ME TOO!
- Danielle Warby said: east vs west
- Bryant said: I always thought this was confusing too.
- Dimituri said: Ха-ха, янки!
- bokane said: I always like to mess with people by claiming that in the US, China is referred to as 'The West,' and Europe as 'The East.'
- Felipe Contreras said: Me too!
- Gianluca said: questi americani quando capiranno che devono spostare l'origine dell'asse? :)
- Ruben Llibre said: i agree!
- Ara said: Me too!
- | Balu | said: What do yu call Identity crisis? Or is it just a different perspective? Thank god US did not redraw the whole world map. India would have been a "western country" and Prakash karat would have killed himself!
- pfranzosa said: me too
- Michael said: True, that.
- David said: LOL
- Egon Willighagen said: Ha, finally someone who realizes that the USA is *not* the center of the universe. Maybe Obama does manage to make a difference ;)
- Veikko said: höhö. Pieni kuva, iso asia.
- Chris said: Agreed
- Mike Mol said: Me too...
- Hadyn said: At least NZ's on the map (mouse over comic)
- ScorpFromHell said: har har har!!!!
- Jonah said: Amen.
- Kathleen said: no, but seriously...
- Grork said: While joe thought he was the only on, i would like to point out that, it's relative the iron curtain :)
- Dileepa said: Me too!
- Jez Arnold said: its funny seeing a map of the world drawn by an american company... the one I see always has Europe in the middle. Then East and West makes sense. Then the day starts at the right hand side of the map.. just my $0.02
- jeremy said: Me too!
- Alex said: Haha = me
- Damon said: Word.
- Bill O'Neill said: Nice to know I'm not the only one!
- Mook® said: wanna be the central, instead of the west or the east.
- imma said: Looks like the problem is we're not standing where the world says we should. Stupid world with it's geography and stuff. *sulks* :-)
- thiago said: se eu mostrar isso pros meus alunos da quinta série, eles pifam. :D
- Tony said: That silly holdover from when people thought the world was flat bugs me too.
- phrakture said: I always screw this up
- CKL said: Also, there is no 'up' in outer space. DID I JUST BLOW YOUR MIND?
- chrisofspades said: It also bugs me that the Midwest is not in the middle of the West at all, but in the middle of the country.
- Liz said: omg, me too. Though, as I've gotten older, I sort of placed a mental dot somewhere east of Germany that differentiated "east" and "west" in global terms. Funny how "east" and "west" only seem to apply to the northern hemisphere (i.e. you don't think of australia as "the east" or South America as "the west")
- doransky said: Ez engem is mindig zavart.
- Alice Robison said: wait, but where's alaska? and where's africa?
- J. James B said: lol
- burndive said: This is obviously due to the aether.
- Benjamin said: I had the same problem and then I decided to pretend I was in Moscow; all the time.
- Eduo said: xkcd muestra una de las discriminaciones consecuencia de ser el último en unirse a la fiesta de lo que ahora llamamos "la cultura moderna". Que ya no tienes voz ni voto en como se llaman las cosas.Alguien debería además comentarle el dudoso honor de compartir con los países bajos el vivir en un país que no tiene nombre propio (aunque ya tuvieron a bien hacer lo mismo que aquellos, y adoptar un nombre y decidir que así se llaman, le joda geográficamente a quien le joda). A la gente de Frisia le tiene que molar que le digan "Aaah, pero vosotros sois Holanda, no?" tanto como cuando en España la gente insiste en considerar México, Guatemala y Costa Rica parte de Sudamérica (la lógica, siendo, que están todas abajo de "América").A quien le tiene que molar es a Zelanda. Tienen que estar aún más mosqueados con la historia que York.
- Misa said: Рендал Мунро знае ова многу подобро да го каже отколку Цуцуловски
- Jordan T-H said: I find that, whenever you are confronted with global terminology that is relative like direction or time, it is best to use Greenwich as your reference.
- Pozsi said: Nem (mindig volt) amerika a (gombolyu) vilag kozepe :)
- David said: American children don't see the old maps that have Europe as the center of the Earth. I wonder where Chinese maps center at, given that China (中国) literally means "center country?"
- Sour Grapes said: This will make sense to Americans, but not to Europeans. I guess you have to "get" Zero Meridian.
- Vidal Tripsa said: For my pals whose Other Personae might well feel the same way.
- Jeremiah said: hahaha Same here!
- Andrew M said: QFT
- Bobby Teters said: Try East/West Berlin as your starting point ;)
- Murz said: lol
- Sandra said: this always bugged me too....
- Paulo Pereira said: na volta a europa é o centro do mundo
- Jordan Bouvier said: Me too!
- iwein said: proof that the USA is not the center of the world?
- mel-shaped mailbox said: Being someone who lives in more than one continent for a long period of time, I completely agree. X_X GAH.
- Naseer said: Genius. Thanks, Jon.
- Jake Davis said: This always bugged the heck out of me too.
- Vijendra Purohit said: Sums up the American confusion :)
- Alex Chaffee said: You live on a spheroid. Deal with it :-P
- [ebarrera] said: This is thanks to the Eurocentric point of view
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