IMO, The US has crumbling infrastructure, corrupt government, dangerous cities, and a lot of homelessness, among so many other problems. Hell, millions of people in the US don’t even have power right now.

What’s the difference?

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

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          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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      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.