Comment on Insulin
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day agoEspousing an old no longer relevant definition to sound smarter and be “right” is peak lemmy/reddit behavior. Third world does mean poor now.
Comment on Insulin
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day agoEspousing an old no longer relevant definition to sound smarter and be “right” is peak lemmy/reddit behavior. Third world does mean poor now.
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It doesn’t. It never did.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
It does. Strictly it does. Why do you think china is no longer considered third world?
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Strictly, technically every other way China is still third world. This concept of third world being poor seems to have originated from the common charity ads in the 90s and 2000s who loved the phrase, and from the American exceptionalism that thinks everything not American is dirty and poor.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
Being poor is the only way a country is third world or not. Being politically related to America is not relevant to the present definition. So no, it is not “technically in every other way”. It just is not a third world country, period.