• Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Well akchually the USA can never become a third world country, because the designations come from the cold war and first world means US aligned, second world means UdSSR aligned and third world are the neutral countries.

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      1 year ago

      Yep a better one might be developed/developing, since that’s what people are usually thinking about when they use those terms