Interestingly, DIST2REF does also show some cultural effects in its geolocation errors: For example, some Pacific island states with lesser-known identities (e.g., Nauru and French Polynesia) are placed in the Indian Ocean, where we find the perhaps prototypes of beautiful islands, like Seychelles and Mauritius; also, Central American countries (such as Panama, El Salvador, and Nicaragua) move towards their "cultural center of gravity", South America.
this kind of cultural bias is much more prominent in the original WORD2VEC distributional representation.