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?

    • @[email protected]
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      82 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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        2 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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          62 months ago

          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

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      Language changes people.

      In what ways are people changed by language?