• Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Strictly, technically every other way China is still third world. This concept of third world being poor seems to have originated from the common charity ads in the 90s and 2000s who loved the phrase, and from the American exceptionalism that thinks everything not American is dirty and poor.

      • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 hours ago

        Being poor is the only way a country is third world or not. Being politically related to America is not relevant to the present definition. So no, it is not “technically in every other way”. It just is not a third world country, period.