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  • @sir_reginald
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    310 months ago

    China is not a third world country

    • YⓄ乙
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      510 months ago

      Oh really ? Damn i was there last year and no different that other 3rd world. Rampant poverty, shitty roads etc. Mind it , I was not living in the city , city is developed but same is the case for all 3rd world countries.

      • @jmanes
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        1410 months ago

        Come to the midwest of the USA. You’ll find all of that shit out here, too, if you know where to look.

      • @[email protected]
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        -310 months ago

        “Third world” just meant Africa, but picked up the “poor” connotation from those ads in the 80s with the starving african children, a “Nimrod” affect.

        • @[email protected]
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          1410 months ago

          If you want to get pedantic about it, 3rd world originally meant countries that didn’t take sides in the cold war. 1st world was US and western European democracies and their client states and allies, 2nd world was USSR and their client states and allies.

          3rd world was Africa, India, a lot of SE Asia and some Central/South American countries.

    • @michaelmrose
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      410 months ago

      It is sort of by definition. Third world doesn’t actually mean poor or backward