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[–] UnderpantsWeevil 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We are, by strict definition of the term, a first-world shithole.

The third world is simply the set of states that were unaligned during the Cold War. The term took on a secondary implication of poverty largely because of American foreign policy. Failure to implement neoliberal market reforms marked a country out as "poor", while embrace of those reforms would result in your country being spotlighted as "growing" and its people as "enriched".

But its all just marketing. While Americans threw billions into the economic sinkhole of Pinochet's Chile and Park's Korea and Diem's Vietnam, countries like Burkina Faso and Yugoslavia and Iraq raced ahead of their peers by triangulating a path between the Great Powers while embracing local economic development instead of fixating on a debt-laden export market expansion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The yanks and their shitty primary education are the first to claim that their inability to type coherently is "language evolving"

I'll use "third-world" how I like 😁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Thats because youre an insufferable elitist bore

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 1 points 2 days ago

Abolishing history and etymology make Yanks of us all.