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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World
by ithkuil 6y ago
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World
Italy, Turkey and Russia were pretty much not third world countries when that word had a political meaning.
Later on it became a synonym for developing world, which basically rules out most of the rest of your list, since Brazil, Argentina and Philippines aren't on that list either.
So I assume you just use it a slur, meaning that those countries have a dysfunctional political systems, with corrupted strongmen; ok, I guess; just say "corrupt, failed, authoritarian political systems"; third world brings too much baggage, needlessly insulting people who live in those countries and who produce vibrant economies that have nothing to do the perception of starving masses associated with the "third world" slur.
- cptskippy 6y agoThe meaning of the term Third World is different depending on the context. In a bureaucratic sense it has a very strict meaning, but more colloquially it's used as a derogatory to imply that a country is backward or almost savage in comparison to First World countries.
- ithkuil 6y agoyeah, mine was a long way to say that I felt insulted by using such a derogatory term for the country where live; insult our politician, fine; insult your own politicians, fine; don't drag the rest of the populace into that. All of the places listed are full of industrious people who live and work and enjoy their long healthy lives; I wish people would occasionally stop and think about what the words that get out of the mouths actually mean.