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Who uses the term '3rd world' 'third world' anymore?
by ricksunny 3mo ago
Who uses the term '3rd world' 'third world' anymore?
- bonoboTP 3mo agoIt's Global South now. A Global South embedded engineer.
- overfeed 3mo agoBoth the old and new forms are clumsy approximations; Trinidad & Tobago is (are?) in the northern hemisphere.
- bonoboTP 3mo ago"Developing world" was the version one euphemism ago. A developing world embedded engineer.
- throwaway2037 3mo agoI totally agree. Trinidad & Tobago isn't a poor country. It is a petro state (oil and gas) in the Caribbean. GDP per capita is 20K USD. That is middle income.
- TMWNN 3mo agoIt's not darkest Africa, or Haiti, but it is sufficiently outside the normal trade routes to not have routine, inexpensive access to components that most of us here take for granted.
- aaron695 3mo ago[dead]
- Tomte 3mo agoAnd nobody has used the term in the original meaning (i.e. outside both American and Russian bloc) for the last decades anyway.
- jonwinstanley 3mo agoYes! This is my pet hate. Third world does not mean poor. Switzerland is third world as it was aligned to neither bloc.
- alightsoul 3mo agoPeople in third world countries do