Comment on Why is the US not considered a third world country?
notnotmike@programming.dev 2 months agoIt’s a cold war term - basically, first world is the US and capitalist countries, second world is the Soviet and communist countries, and third world are the unaffiliated.
It’s slightly more nuanced than that, but that’s the basic summary.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or maybe we come up with a new word instead of just using old words incorrectly?
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
We literally did come up with new terms after the cold war. We now say Developing and Developed nations.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 months ago
Nope that was apparently too confusing, now we say global north and global south.
It’s a much better system, see Australia in the south of the globe, is in the global north for instance. It just makes perfect sense.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well there you go! Problem solved!
notnotmike@programming.dev 2 months ago
I’m sorry but that’s still the meaning of the term. I know it is colloquially understood to mean a “poor” country, but we shouldn’t ignore the original intent.
Also, please don’t tell me how my country is. I quite literally live here. I can read every article online that you can, plus I can go outside and see it for myself. We know we have problems, we aren’t ignorant to them - at least not all of us - and they’re nowhere near as bad as some commentors on this post believe they are.
otp@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Speak for yourself. I see it as fucked up, but definitely not third-world…