Printer Bandit
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The average American is far better off than the average Hong Kong resident, also their is far more corruption in Hong Kong than in the U.S . To say other wise is a show vast ignorance.Really we need more than just 1st, second and third world terms to describe the relative advancement of a country. South Africa is 3rd world and so is Somalia, but I'd rather live in South Africa.
In the same way, the USA is 1st world and so is Hong Kong, in this example, but the guy that the OP cites argues that Hong Kong is a better first world country than the USA. Maybe a better example would have been something like Sweden?
In any case, whether your politicians are all bought and paid for need not necessarily mean that the living conditions of the average American are worse than the living conditions of the average Hong Kongese (sorry!). It could be argued that this is the case though, with the sheer number that are corrupt.
Really we need more than just 1st, second and third world terms to describe the relative advancement of a country. South Africa is 3rd world and so is Somalia, but I'd rather live in South Africa.
In the same way, the USA is 1st world and so is Hong Kong, in this example, but the guy that the OP cites argues that Hong Kong is a better first world country than the USA. Maybe a better example would have been something like Sweden?
In any case, whether your politicians are all bought and paid for need not necessarily mean that the living conditions of the average American are worse than the living conditions of the average Hong Kongese (sorry!). It could be argued that this is the case though, with the sheer number that are corrupt.
Your link doesn't work.To quote Anonymous poster No. 421360718:
As someone who travels and has always traveled frequently, I have to agree with this poster. The US is failing because of its uncultured masses who don't know any better. The best way to destroy the status quo would be to arm each and every US American with a passport and enough money to go ANYWHERE outside of North/Central America for at least two weeks. Send them abroad in combination with some sort of cultural education program where showing their own ignorance would be frowned upon. We'd have real change when they came back...if they came back.
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That's pretty deep. Kind of like Marx's means of distribution or production. Develop that idea and you might have something to chew on.... the means to avoid it.
So in other words you've never been outside the US much less to a third world country.We do stop by from time to time with Comrades to resupply the muttnik space fleet. And receive our secret orders. We are always busy with the logistics of the endless task in itself of helping Castro and Chavez provide the pure liquid DNA needed from ground capitalist bones to sustain Obama's Pharoh cloned body. Oh no..is this thing on? dang...Comrade Beck is gonna be mad I spilled the beans.
America is a third world country because we have a fourth rate "leader".
Nope - you're right. This was the first clue that the author had absolutely no idea what they were talking about.Has the definition of "third world country" changed? I thought it stems from the cold war, having to do with countries that were neutral or not involved with the confict between the US and USSR. Based on how it used the past several decades, it seems like the term is now used to describe a "shithole country" for lack of better words.
This. I don't see too many eight year old kids digging through trash heaps here in the U.S. to find scraps of plastic and metal to sell to earn fifty cents a day for the family.Maybe said person should travel to a real third world country before claiming the US has become one.
Of course not. Can't have any fucking worthless kids stealing valuable garbage from the garbage corporations.This. I don't see too many eight year old kids digging through trash heaps here in the U.S. to find scraps of plastic and metal to sell to earn fifty cents a day for the family.
And in many of these people in third world countries are ruled by dictators. We have corruption in the U.S. government.... but not on the level of some of these real third world crap holes.
Yeah, it changed a few decades ago. Basically, the economic status of the first, second, and third world nations took over as the meanings since they align very well with the already created sets from the cold war.Has the definition of "third world country" changed? I thought it stems from the cold war, having to do with countries that were neutral or not involved with the confict between the US and USSR. Based on how it used the past several decades, it seems like the term is now used to describe a "shithole country" for lack of better words.
I am not going to defend anything.And right on cue, the Texans and southerners come in to defend third world shittiness.
Please. America has always had it problems. Slavery, Child Labor, Destruction of Native Americans, etc. We are not suddenly the worst generation ever. We are just dealing with different problems. Stupid "nostalgic" stuff like that makes me sad and makes me think someone writing it doesn't read up on history.
Places still do this? Granted I have only been to Europe recently but the last two times I have gone I've visited 6 countries and I have 0 stamps to show for it. They all just look at it and then hand it backwith 13 countries stamped in my passport