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It’s funny, because on the face of it, it seems the worst of all. You might as well just say “dark skinned countries,” since that’s what the term is effectively
by Auracle 1y ago
It’s funny, because on the face of it, it seems the worst of all. You might as well just say “dark skinned countries,” since that’s what the term is effectively getting at.
- trhway 1y ago>You might as well just say “dark skinned countries,” Argentine is 97% European descent. Where is non-white countries like Japan and South Korea are in the Global North. It isn't about race/skin color. The "Third World" was well suitable until Soviet Block (Second World) collapsed with most of its components going either into the First/Western World or into the Third World thus resulting in the world being partitioned just into 2 large parts with Russia+Belarus being the distant small 3rd, so small that it is just easier to count them into the First/Western style developed world especially considering that they both moved into capitalism losing that major trait - socialism - of the Second World. (Though 30+ years later Russia does more and more drift toward the former Third World, i.e Global South).
- Auracle 1y agoWe all known Japanese and Korean people are white by proxy in a lot of people's minds. My point wasn't about the grouping itself though, just the term global south effectively being "worse" than the previous terms. For the northern hemisphere, where most people live, south = darker skin.