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You've obviously not tried purchasing things in a 3rd world market, such as in China
by greghinch 14y ago
You've obviously not tried purchasing things in a 3rd world market, such as in China
- mseebach 14y agoYou're failing to account for the fairly sizable chunk of the world that's both not the US and not the third world. Such as Germany, where people do seem to prefer physically inspecting items.
- latch 14y agoChina hasn't been a 3rd world country for some time. It isn't even close. Sure there are massive pockets of poverty (with 1 billion people, there are massive pockets of everything)...but visit India or parts of Africa if you want to see what 3rd world is.
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- cglace 14y agoIf we were going by the original definitions of first world, second world third world. China would be a second world country since it was aligned with Russia and not the US.
- billforsternz 14y agoNot really, the Russians and Chinese were both communist but were rivals rather than allies through most of the cold war.
- gaius 14y agoThere was no first and second, it's third world as in "third person". NATO, Warsaw Pact, everyone else.
- speleding 14y agoYes, there was a first and second world, it used to denote then Nato and USSR block respectively, that's how the third world got its name. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World
- greghinch 14y agoI supposed you could call China not a 3rd world, but I've been to China, Nepal, and parts of Africa, and a lot of rural China looks like the poor parts of the other two. How people in poverty live in China is still quite a bit below how the impoverished live in western countries