Welcome to a community representative of the global south.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  BRICS+

  For when you don’t want to say “coalition of authoritarian dictatorships”…

  BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising ten countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS

  Brazil is the odd man out, but they’re actively fighting against expanding BRICS and honestly I think the only reason they haven’t left is it’s essentially free for them.

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  • Docker_84@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What do you mean by authoritarian dictatorships ?

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    • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Russia, China, Indonesia, Egypt, and Iran are all authoritarian countries.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Brazil is the odd man out,

      I thought the context made it clear that the rest are authoritarian dictatorships…

      Let’s start with the three big ones though:

      Russia, India, China

      Pick any of the three and say it’s not an authoritarian dictatorship in 2025.

      That will help steer rational people away from your community and instance in general.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Only two of those countries are in the southern hemisphere

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  • Docker_84@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Global south doesn’t refer to the southern hemisphere of the globe…

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    • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Then it is a fucking stupid name.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      First time hearing this

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So why use either of those words alone, let alone together?

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  • davel@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Global_North_and_Global_South

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The idea of categorizing countries by their economic and developmental status began during the Cold War with the classifications of East and West. The Soviet Union and China represented the East, and the United States and their allies represented the West. The term Third World came into parlance in the second half of the twentieth century. It originated in a 1952 article by Alfred Sauvy entitled “Trois Mondes, Une Planète”.[22] Early definitions of the Third World emphasized its exclusion from the east–west conflict of the Cold War as well as the ex-colonial status and poverty of the peoples it comprised.[22]

      So…

      They wanted to replace 1st, 2nd, and 3rd world to segregate countries based on economys…

      But didn’t want to say that’s what they were doing, so picked a random name that doesn’t make logical sense?

      Yeah, this is definitely a .ml thing

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    • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If Russia is part of this “Global South” then you might as well include all of eastern Europe.

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    • Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So Russia is on the Global North, noted.

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• amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  welcome to anti-imperialist imperialism

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