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'Third World' Is An Offensive Term. Here's Why : Goats and Soda : NPR


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The question of what to call the developing world is a developing debate.
Jing Wei for NPR
When an armed mob stormed the U.S. Capitol and took over the building on Wednesday, many Americans said that s what happens in Third World countries. TV journalists and pundits said it. As did people on social media.
Everyone knows what they meant countries that are poor, where health care systems are weak, where democracy may not be exactly flourishing.
But the very term Third World is a problem.
I feel like it connotes this superiority and inferiority, says Ngozi Erondu, senior scholar at the O Neill Institute at Georgetown University, who identifies as Nigerian American and says half her family lives in Nigeria. When she heard the label growing up, she says it struck her as making this assumption about people outside of the First World that they lived rea ....

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