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Please stop using "Third World" as a term — it is no longer accurate, the AP has eliminated it from its stylebook, and is widely considered offensive: https://w

Please stop using "Third World" as a term — it is no longer accurate, the AP has eliminated it from its stylebook, and is widely considered offensive: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/01/08/954820328/memo-to-people-of-earth-third-world-is-an-offensive-term https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/01/08/9548203... "Developing Nations" or "Developing World" is better. "Third world" contributes to exactly the kinds of stereotypes that this comment reinforces — the backwardness of poor countries, where doctors don't know better, science is ignored, etc. It's just not accurate; medical knowledge and competence is on the rise all over the world, among both professionals and volunteers.

da_big_ghey 5y ago
no. i am not stopping. i disagree. i see not any inaccuracy. i do not work for AP and do not care what it say in style book, AP change style book many time for to please the pc persons. example, AP change style book for to say singular "they" are now ok: https://www.apstylebook.com/blog_posts/7 https://www.apstylebook.com/blog_posts/7 i have not in previous heard it "offensive" and am not changing because some person sayes it. i have been to many nation, those i call "third world" are backward. improvement you describe make them moving away from third world, not make term wrong, this is move to second then to first. i will not call different word because somebody say so.