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• Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wrong. That’s not what it means, no matter what anyone says on here.

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      • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Do you seriously think you know what a word’s meaning is better than the hundreds of millions of people who use it in a way different from how you suggest it?

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