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Is it just me, or is there a distinct lack of subtlety in right wing propaganda campaigns recently?
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i bet none of them would answer the same way if you asked them what a 3rd world country is
No chance that more than a fourth of them realize it’s from the Cold War and originally mean nations that were neither in the sphere of Soviet or American interest. They just think it means poor country with brown people
The Soviets, eastern Europeans, CHYNA, Cuba and North Korea are 2nd world. Odd that they would omit those countries from their rhetoric ..
Well, as the Warsaw pact doesn't exist anymore, there are no second world countries.
The countries still exist .. in one form or another
But the alliances don't, which is where the term came from. If you're going to get pedantic about it, it's odd to be so selective.
Yeah, I'm the one being pedantic, gas light much?
I thought it just meant no nuclear weapons
I believe that would exclude Canada, Aus, and NZ which are pretty firmly considered first world.
First World: “the west”
Second World: countries contested by the first and third that routinely had/have their sovereignty violated. Integral to “domino theory.”
Third World: socialist/communist nations
Edit: lmao don’t whiskey and lemmy yall. Flipped second and third
Second World was the Soviets. 3rd world was India and other non-aligned.
lol yes thank you. Dumb flip there
I wonder who came up with this nomenclature. Certainly wouldn't be the ones who chose to call themselves 'first world' right?
Glad to see its no longer taken seriously in any sort of academic or intellectual context.