“Third world” just meant Africa, but picked up the “poor” connotation from those ads in the 80s with the starving african children, a “Nimrod” affect.
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yoz@aussie.zone 11 months agoOh really ? Damn i was there last year and no different that other 3rd world. Rampant poverty, shitty roads etc. Mind it , I was not living in the city , city is developed but same is the case for all 3rd world countries.
Sagifurius@lemm.ee 11 months ago
shottymcb@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If you want to get pedantic about it, 3rd world originally meant countries that didn’t take sides in the cold war. 1st world was US and western European democracies and their client states and allies, 2nd world was USSR and their client states and allies.
3rd world was Africa, India, a lot of SE Asia and some Central/South American countries.
VonReposti@feddit.dk 11 months ago
Fun fact, Finland and Sweden were also third world countries under this definition.
Tum@lemmy.world 11 months ago
and Ireland too!
Sagifurius@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No, that was also a later definition. 1, 2, 3 were new world, old world, Africa.
ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No, that’s the origin of the term.
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 11 months ago
under neither definition does China fall under third world.
China is not in the African continent and it was (mostly) in the USSR side during the Cold War.
jmanes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Come to the midwest of the USA. You’ll find all of that shit out here, too, if you know where to look.
Aasikki@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
The US is also a third world country just like china.
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And Antarctica
jmanes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t separate countries by arbitrary terms like “third world.” It’s a country and people live within it.
VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Joe & Nic’s road trip is an eye opener for techbros not aware of the poverty in their nation.