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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    4 months ago

    Yup, it does change. It was attempted to mean “poor” and it’s been reappropriated since

    If you’re trying to use modern language, it’s “developed” and “developing”

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      4 months ago

      You mean global north/ global south.

      Developing and developed are considered negatively.

      But in terms of laypeople words, that are used every day, 1st and 3rd world mean the same thing.

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        North/south imply certain regions can’t improve and is far worse than developed/developing

        If layperson words didn’t have an issue with 1st/3rd world, you wouldn’t see so many comments about it