Date: November 29th, 2025 3:03 PM
Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK
There's a great book on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_Communities
So there came a point when people in the Philippines and Indonesia got their hands on some maps of the world, around the early 20th century. The first thing they noticed was that Spain and Holland were really far away and not that big. That's all anyone had to see.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804143&forum_id=2/#49470578)