Comment on Why is the US not considered a third world country?

• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or maybe we come up with a new word instead of just using old words incorrectly?

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We literally did come up with new terms after the cold war. We now say Developing and Developed nations.

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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    • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well there you go! Problem solved!

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• notnotmike@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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• otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a non american we 100% see america as 3rd world.

  Speak for yourself. I see it as fucked up, but definitely not third-world…

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