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RE: Contest #81- Existential Dilemma of Time

in Ladies of Hive2 years ago

I thought that’s the usage you were after. Incorrect by the way. It was originally a political construct at the Warshaw Treaty at the beginning of the Cold War.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

After the fall of the Soviet Union that term is no longer valid. Still widely used in SE Asia. And it’s usage is what you said. It’s considered derogatory. Just like the word “negro”.

The “empathetic” way of usage of that term would be “the developing world” or “the emerging world”

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Thank you for explaining. I know I could have marked my country as "developing or that type" however, didn't intend to be empathetic. I implied to express all gawked nakedness of my country by that if it has been expressed.