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Uses a Mercator projection to capture the northernmost 25 degrees of latitude as a quarter of the map
Cuts off the southernmost 75 degrees, including all of Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Mozambique
So let me understand it. 1st May became International Workers' Day due to worker strikes in Chicago, but in the USA is not public holiday???
And i read from Wiki, that they have a day in September for Workers' Day??? This country omg...
The US chose september, specificaly so that the working class here would not feel solidarity with the international working class. September was deliberate
It's pretty funny that the day isn't an official public holiday in Denmark, because May day is kind of celebrated here, but it's mostly just various useless liberals making speeches in a big park in Copenhagen and in Aarhus, while every student in either city is busy getting drunk off their ass. Most "adults" just work like it's a normal day, but a couple of big unions also like to protest the useless liberals (SocDems and their associates) right before they fall back in line and support the SocDems unequivocally.
It's quite interesting that Japan celebrates Golden Week during this time with several public holidays but does not have one for May 1st.
What line?
Uhh.... May day May day May day, stock prices, going down!
I hate the maps because they always fail to show Palestine
ofc it's a public holiday today
didn't even realize it's tomorrow.
I was speaking to a German acquaintance yesterday and she was like "of fucking course" when I said that they are celebrating a day in honor of American martyred workers, which Americans don't celebrate at least officially. Turns out in Berlin they still do stuff in memory of the victims of Blutmai which was nice to hear.
A German guy once asked me if the workers march in the streets on the fake US labor day.
Labour Day is celebrated with a public holiday in Australia. Each state holds it on a different day. It’s just not held on May 1st.
Yeah Ireland holds it on the first Monday in May and it’s a national holiday.
tbh, a guaranteed three day weekend is pretty based.
Same in UK, bank Holiday first Monday in may so it occasionally lines up
This is true in the US too. First monday of september.
Burgerland begrudgingly celebrates it at all, but was intentionally moved elsewhere to minimize any international solidarity.
Of course, with labor day comes whiny screeds of "when's capital day!?"
That seems specifically made up to make it impossible for the labor movement to use the day for anything general.
I think states hold it in March to honour the 8 hour “march”, or in May in tribute to May 1. If it was held on May 1 and that coincided with a weekend without a weekday off in lieu, people would go apeshit.
In the US they made May 1st “loyalty day” like Loyalty to the US government so don’t you dare do any commie shit lmao
The map is also just wrong on several countries, like there's no May Day in Liberia or Sierra Leone, Sudan, Mongolia, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan. And a lot more countries only have partial holidays
Kazakhstan has a government holiday on the 1st of May, except they renamed it to "The Day of Unity of Kazakhstan Peoples". In Russia and Tajikistan it has also been renamed but differently – to "The Day of Spring and Labour", with the emphasis on spring of course lest the plebs remember what the holiday was supposed to be about. So I wouldn't even put Russia on this map, personally.
This is stupid
May Day is very important in Russia ,don’t pull shit out of your ass
I am not going to dox myself but let's just say I have first-hand experience with how "important" the 1st of May is in Russia and certain other post-Soviet countries. Have you ever been to Russia to tell me I am pulling shit out of my ass?
That makes sense, I was wondering where Oman was. Oil state monarchy like the rest of the Gulf states was suspicious for being green
Bonus points if you spot the funniest thing on this chart.
Sure. Just chop off South America, southern Africa, Philipines, but be sure to specially include Australia in there!
At least they tried
New Zealand mentioned by name and yet somehow still getting Mike Wazowski'd off the right side of the map (I think we can see tiny slivers of it)
New Zelaland doesn't exist?
For some reason part of Newfoundland is green?
Edit: so is another island next to it, and I see Puerto Rico is green too.
Vancouver Island is also green
Newfoundland used to celebrate it in July until they joined Confederation, now they have it in September like the rest of Canada, so it's sort of weird that it's green, but also sort of weird that Canada is black, cause it doesn't "skip" it, it's just a different time.
And the island near Newfoundland that's also green is Anticosti, truly no idea why that is included, the 200ish people that live there have it in September like the rest of the country
I also question what's going on with Ireland, because May Day is a public holiday, it's just not necessarily May 1st, it's the first Monday of May and is also Bealtaine, calling Bealtaine "just another day" isn't right.
The map is specifically about May Day, so other labor days aren't included. There's specific significance to May 1st in particular, and also to "labor days" being placed on other days to avoid them being on May Day.
I think the islands not being colored in line with the country they're a part of are just an oversight, but it's funny that's implying they're independent.
Yeah I get what the map is, but isn't really accurate to say they "skip labor day", and there is also significance to why labor day is celebrated at other times of the year in other places, like the two examples I mentioned:
Several provinces in Canada had worker-organized labour movements that created their own labour day in September, so that is a culturally significant time for it to happen. And in Ireland, to say they're skipping May Day when there is a public holiday is inaccurate, and also fails to take into account the cultural impact of the start of May already being a traditional festival.
It's funny that America doesn't celebrate it in May, but it is ultimately a bit US-centric to present the information in this manner when the date itself was chosen by the AFL to commemorate an American strike.
Funny but there is another one
No Sudan-South Sudan split?
Is Puerto Rico the one you mean? I noticed that when I looked again.
