Changing Maps

In the video from the west wing they talk about why the United States government should change maps taught in public Schools to the Peters projection map because the Mercator map favorites European socialism and doesn't correctly portray the actual sizes of some of the countries and the actual place of the that country are incorrect. They mention that green land on the Mercator map looks approximately the same size as Africa when in reality Africa is fourteen times larger than Greenland. Also they say that on the map Alaska looks bigger than Mexico which is also incorrect because Mexico is 758,400 mi² And Alaska is 663,300 mi². thats a ninety-five thousand mile difference. Then they say that what if we flip the hemisphere's because we could have those wrong and the lady says you can't do, She says but has no validation of why we can't do that because we could actually have the hemispheres wrong. Until my next human geo class bye.