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The state of the rail system the most reliable measure of how civilized a country really is
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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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Well, it is in the third world so what would one expect?
"Third world" is Cold War framing, pitting the capitalist U.S. and allied countries (first world) against the USSR and allied countries (second world). The Third World referred to nonaligned Global South countries, which tended to be too crushed by the ongoing first world colonialism.
Denigrating the U.S. with implicit denigration to colonized countries based on its own colonialism feels a little off to us.
It's a silly joke where from a sino-roman perspective africa was the second continent/world "discovered" and that means the third world would be the next one, which is America.