Hasta La Ideas

This plug and sockets thing can be pretty confusing sometimes. That’s why we were very happy to find this clear and easy-to-understand map on the always interesting blog Book of Joe. As we live in Sweden, we belong to the light green part of the world, and it seems we can travel most of it without having to buy an adapter. (Here’s a larger map.) Another thing one might mull over is how this map reflects the great power’s influence over the world in terms of who uses what socket and plug system. Half of Latin America, Saudi, the Philippines, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (in part) and Liberia use the US system. Great Britain has exported her system to China, a number of countries in Africa, plus Burma (Myanmar) and Malaysia. Then there’s of course anomalies. Australia should, according to this theory, use the British system, but have instead invented their own, and exported it to Argentine, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. And how it came to be that South Africa, Namibia, Benin and Togo uses the same sockets as India, Pakistan and Afghanistan is anybody’s guess.brbrbr