• @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    Well akchually the USA can never become a third world country, because the designations come from the cold war and first world means US aligned, second world means UdSSR aligned and third world are the neutral countries.

    • OtterM
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      11 year ago

      Yep a better one might be developed/developing, since that’s what people are usually thinking about when they use those terms

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Idk. The us population definitely isn’t aligned with the us government or vice versa.

      Jokes aside, that’s pretty interesting. I didn’t know that’s where those terms came from