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Not to turn it into a struggle session, but I think we should stop using third world when talking about global south nations tbh.

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Is ogey I don’t think you meant anything by it for the record.

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moah moah kiss kiss 🥺

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Why?

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Because the global south in various ways are becoming emerging powers that deserve that respect and acknowledgment. “Third world” has a lot of negative connotations associated with it also. At best it depicts them as an other that doesn’t matter and at worst it’s kinda racist. That’s just my thoughts on it.

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afaik people still use that term in those places self-referentially

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It’s just another step on the euphemism treadmill. The moment we could convince enough people to use a less loaded term to make the meaning commonly known, people will start to use it negatively, and it will pick up negative associations.

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By enough people do you mean in general or just hexbear? Because one is definitely doable even if the other isn’t. Plus we already have a different term that is heavily used already which is the global south. So what’s the problem?

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I mean in general, though I’m already starting to see people use the global South pejoratively.

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