NationStates Jolt Archive

It seems to me people from the so-called third world-- countries that are generally very poor-- are not the normal surfers on the net. There's alot of Americans, English and Canadians, and Japanesse and Germans have their respective communities, but I rarely hear someone from the Middle East, or Central America. Is there anybbody here that's willing to stand up?

Yes, please stand up. It makes such a more appealing target than when you're cowering and begging...

...I think we have a new record for a Nazi hijacking of an otherwise well-intended thread. 1 post. Granted, it was almost an hour, but 1 post nonetheless. Thanks, Aryan Supremacy. Now let's all have a moment of silence for you, as you are about to be savagely flamed to Bejesus and back. Not to say I feel sorry for you or anything. I'll be participating in the flamage. (you Nazis are just so easy to own in debates)

Nope, but I'm at the ass end of the first world.

Nope, but I'm at the ass end of the first world.
Unless you're in Phoenix, I question your logic.

Unless you're in Phoenix, I question your logic.

Nah New Zealand. Its a great place to live, we just seem to be towards the bottom of most OECD listings.

I'm in my own little world. Does that count? :D

Nah New Zealand. Its a great place to live, we just seem to be towards the bottom of most OECD listings.
May be true, but I truly believe that politically, socially, culturally, and especially climactically, Phoenix, AZ, is the bottom of the first-world food chain. Or maybe that's just because I'm bitter about it.

I'm in my own little world. Does that count? :D

Your in the ith world. ith, I note is a the ordered numeral for the square root of -1, "i".

May be true, but I truly believe that politically, socially, culturally, and especially climactically, Phoenix, AZ, is the bottom of the first-world food chain. Or maybe that's just because I'm bitter about it.

What about the American South?

What about the American South?
Eh, I hate Phoenix more. Phoenicians are evil in their own insidious way.

I live in Australia - that's close, isn't it?

Our Top End is just a few hours boat ride from Indonesia, which is the hell-holest of the hell-holes.

Whoa - so third world nations have power nowadays? How wonderful!!

I live in Australia - that's close, isn't it?

Our Top End is just a few hours boat ride from Indonesia, which is the hell-holest of the hell-holes.

You forgot Tasmania. Haha.

Whoa - so third world nations have power nowadays? How wonderful!!

Good point.

i know somebody from argentina that plays here, but that doesn't quite count as the third world. it is in the global south, however.

i know somebody from argentina that plays here, but that doesn't quite count as the third world. it is in the global south, however.

Argentina is 1st world?

Well I live in the U.S., but Tijuana's only a few miles away from here. Is that the closest we've got so far, excluding Phoenix?

No, Argentina's Third World, though they're more European than usual.

Argentina is 1st world?

They have a pretty high comparative standard of living...

Argentina is 1st world?


1st World and 3rd world are ideas and mentality.


Argentina being 96-98% European in racial composition is a 1st world nation.

Japan is obviously a 1st world nation but is not european at all, but they are advanced in technology and culture nonetheless.

Basically the way I see it is when most people say "1st world" they mean "White" (And Japanese, but that's not what people usually mean when they say it). When they say "3rd world" they mean non-whites (usually africans)

They have a pretty high comparative standard of living...

I don't debate that-- Its just I define the first world as:
US
Western Europe
Canada
Japan
Singapore
Australia
And probably a few others I forgot about...

The point is, its an exclusive list.

I don't debate that-- Its just I define the first world as:
US
Western Europe
Canada
Japan
Singapore
Australia
And probably a few others I forgot about...

The point is, its an exclusive list.

Why not use the real def of 3rd world?

1st World and 3rd world are ideas and mentality.


Argentina being 96-98% European in racial composition is a 1st world nation.

Japan is obviously a 1st world nation but is not european at all, but they are advanced in technology and culture nonetheless.

Basically the way I see it is when most people say "1st world" they mean "White" (And Japanese, but that's not what people usually mean when they say it). When they say "3rd world" they mean non-whites (usually africans)

No, the threshold would be difined by either how they interact in the war between communism and capitalism (an atiquited throwback) or by some living standard statistic.

I don't debate that-- Its just I define the first world as:
US
Western Europe
Canada
Japan
Singapore
Australia
And probably a few others I forgot about...

The point is, its an exclusive list.

Fair enough.

USA
Europe (except Albania and Bosnia)
Canada
Argentina (And a few other South American nations)
Australia
New Zealand
Japan (And maybe a few other asian nations)
South Africa (But not anymore)




Do we notice anything? USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa... All have a great deal of British influence in their nations... Could it be whatever Britain touched, turned to gold :D Britain used to have the Midas touch, you've just got to admit it. Britain really knew how to do things back in the day. But alas, Britain used to have an empire, now they have nothing, London is a slum today.

No, the threshold would be difined by either how they interact in the war between communism and capitalism (an atiquited throwback) or by some living standard statistic.

yes - thank you

USA
Europe (except Albania and Bosnia)
Canada
Argentina (And a few other South American nations)
Australia
New Zealand
Japan (And maybe a few other asian nations)
South Africa (But not anymore)




Do we notice anything? USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa... All have a great deal of British influence in their nations... Could it be whatever Britain touched, turned to gold :D Britain used to have the Midas touch, you've just got to admit it. Britain really knew how to do things back in the day. But alas, Britain used to have an empire, now they have nothing, London is a slum today.

Compare it to 90% of the world. The UK is just fine - the anglo saxons are fine organizers...

USA
Europe (except Albania and Bosnia)
Canada
Argentina (And a few other South American nations)
Australia
New Zealand
Japan (And maybe a few other asian nations)
South Africa (But not anymore)




Do we notice anything? USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa... All have a great deal of British influence in their nations... Could it be whatever Britain touched, turned to gold :D Britain used to have the Midas touch, you've just got to admit it. Britain really knew how to do things back in the day. But alas, Britain used to have an empire, now they have nothing, London is a slum today.

I wouldn't include SA on the list. Also, the Brits controled most of the Mid. East from WWI to WWII.

USA
Europe (except Albania and Bosnia)
Canada
Argentina (And a few other South American nations)
Australia
New Zealand
Japan (And maybe a few other asian nations)
South Africa (But not anymore)




Do we notice anything? USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa... All have a great deal of British influence in their nations... Could it be whatever Britain touched, turned to gold :D Britain used to have the Midas touch, you've just got to admit it. Britain really knew how to do things back in the day. But alas, Britain used to have an empire, now they have nothing, London is a slum today.

Uh- Africa. India. Not everything they touched.

I wouldn't include SA on the list. Also, the Brits controled most of the Mid. East from WWI to WWII.


I said SA used to be a first world nation, but not anymore.


It stopped being a 1st world nation, when the boers lost control of their nation and their land to marxist terrorists commonly referred to by the controlled media as the ANC.


http://www.africancrisis.org/photos11.asp

Uh- Africa. India. Not everything they touched.


Everywhere where a significant number of Europeans settled seems to be doing fine or had been doing fine.

Only about 300,000 british ever lived in India, and many left.


South Africa, Rhodesia, and South-West Africa (Namibia) were all doing fine until they fell to the marxists.

The Rhodesian dollar was worth 1.5 US dollars, now the Zimbabwean (modern Rhodesia) dollar is worth 1/7000 of a US dollar.


The South African Rand used to be worth 1.5 US dollars. Now the rand is worth 1/7 of the dollar.


See what happens when black marxists terrorize the black masses who overwhelmingly supported the governments in the various nations to supporting the marxist takeovers? (You could find and argument saying the blacks might have had reasons not to like SA, but trust me, I've read the information, the blacks in Rhodesia were happy with the way the government was structured. They had adequate representation from their tribal leaders and such)

Nobody can tell me Robert Mugabe is a good leader, he's massacred over 50,000 matabeles (the rival tribe) in Zimbabwe. He is a Shona, he massacres Matabeles. Ian Douglas Smith (the last white leader of Rhodesia before it became Zimbabwe in 1980) never massacred any blacks, indeed his forces tried to help the blacks who were being targeted by the marxist terror campaign and who were being forced across the borders into Zambia and Mozambique where they were "reeducated" into the marxist way. Also the farm workers were terrorized into abandoning the white owned farms they worked on so the economy would collapse.


Here is what the marxist "liberators" did to their own people.

Rhodesia:
http://www.africancrisis.org/photos8.asp

Angola:
http://www.africancrisis.org/photos9.asp

South Africa:
http://www.africancrisis.org/photos11.asp

South African Landmine Campaign:
http://www.africancrisis.org/photos5.asp

When Terrorists Win and Rule a Country:
http://www.africancrisis.org/photos4.asp

I said SA used to be a first world nation, but not anymore.


It stopped being a 1st world nation, when the boers lost control of their nation and their land to marxist terrorists commonly referred to by the controlled media as the ANC.


http://www.africancrisis.org/photos11.asp

I meant *S*outh *A*merica.

No, the threshold would be difined by either how they interact in the war between communism and capitalism (an atiquited throwback)

which is why the term 'third world' has been falling out of use

which is why the term 'third world' has been falling out of use

Exactly, but it has come to mean different things today.

Like that communist said, it basically means European vs non-european (white vs non-white)

Well, you won't find many "third world" countries playing here unless the specific language of English was proficiently acquired for their verbal/writing usage. Asking if anyone from third world countries plays here is equivalent to asking if anyone who exclusively speaks and reads Mandarin, French, Dutch, Korean, Afrikan, or Spanish plays this English-intensive game. They're simply not going to come here. But there are plenty of non-English sites designed for people who can't read English. Just seach on google with the language settings modified and you'll see what I'm talking about.

I know one or two people from south africa on here, have never really talked to them about what it's like there, though.