Well big map and big globe does have a racist, xenophobic conspiracy going on, so there is something to look into about that if you’re not already familiar. A lot of it has to do with a form of white supremacy making white, western counties appear much larger than say continents like Africa and South America

I thought that was just a side effect of the Mercator projection, which happened to be a useful navigational tool (that also, in a “full” map, would make Antarctica an infinite size)