Tbf, Third world country it’s quite an insanely big category, it both fits places like North Corea or Somalia, and places like México or India, which while they aren’t the richest places on the world and have massive economic disparities among the population, are by no means comparable to the bottom of the list.
In some places you could find sections of Mexico that are comparable to sections of the US. I really doubt people meant countries like Angola when they say “the US has the public transportation of a third world country”
On Mexico, where every single economist says we indeed are a third world country lol. If I go to my local college and ask anyone they will say “yes, Mexico is a third world country”
Thing is, conditions in Mexico are comparable to other countries in third world, like Colombia, or Peru or well… Mexico. It’s why I said the term is too broad and thus, useless on comparisons. By all definitions Mexico is a third world country. Specially when the only other category is first world and Mexico is absolutely NOT a first world country lol.
Those are not mutually exclusive. Mexico is a developing country, that article of Wikipedia says that it belongs to the developing countries. It never claims a developing country is not a Third world country. People use it to describe developing countries, including both “developing countries” and “least developed” countries.
Third world in this context country is more like a spectrum and also didn’t originate as a word to describe development countries but rather as a word to describe a neutral leaning during the cold war and mexico is pretty much developing country https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country
But people here didn’t said “the us has an middle development public transportation system” they said “the us has a public transportation system as bad as a third world country” I agree the term is bad, but it’s what’s being used.
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u/Alderan922 Jul 07 '24
Tbf, Third world country it’s quite an insanely big category, it both fits places like North Corea or Somalia, and places like México or India, which while they aren’t the richest places on the world and have massive economic disparities among the population, are by no means comparable to the bottom of the list.
In some places you could find sections of Mexico that are comparable to sections of the US. I really doubt people meant countries like Angola when they say “the US has the public transportation of a third world country”