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Old 02-19-2025, 02:38 PM   #9393
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People that say xxxx country is "becoming a third world country" literally don't have any idea what they're saying. A lot of the time they mean "I see too many non-whites around me so that must be what it's like living in Mexico/Africa/India whatever.

Even the whole term "Third world" is an cold-war anachronism meaning non-aligned to either the US or USSR.

You know what was technically a Third World country? Ireland.

Technically a First World country? Angola.
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