Which side of the wall are you on?
¿What is the world's longest land border between the first world & the developing world?
Image courtesy of TD Architects
The border between the United States of America and the United States of Mexico (Estados Unidos de Mexico) stretches 3,145 kilometers (1,954 miles), from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the take home message of this map?
With Syrian refugees making their way from the Middle East, to Greece, up the Balkans, and now into Hungary, Europeans are considering constructing a wall to keep migrants out of Europe. Should Europe build a wall?
Do you think there will be more or less walls in the future?
Why do we build so many walls?
What is the effect of these walls on both the walled out and the walled in?
In the comments section, describe what you believe would happen if suddenly we took down all the walls depicted in the map?
