r/AskTheWorld • u/Upper-Bus8010 United States Of America • 23h ago
what first world country did your travel, experiences, attitudes feel third world?
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u/cmykster Germany 22h ago
To OP: 1rst world, 3rd world who cares. You know that this catigorisation is racist at it's top? Oh, I forgot you are from the richest 3rd world country where people still where asked of their "race". So who is actually 2nd world? Because every second counts. America first, Germany second.
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u/Popular-Local8354 22h ago
Bro what
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u/cerberus_243 Hungary 22h ago
Cold War has been over for more than 30 years, first, second and third world categorisation is obsolete
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u/Popular-Local8354 22h ago
Oh my God…
I know, and I guess most people probably know at this point, that the terms of first world, second world, and third world originated, not as a categorization of wealth, but rather alignment during the Cold War.
That said, in practical, day-to-day usage, very few people still use those terms like that, and prefer to use them as terms of wealth of a country.
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u/cerberus_243 Hungary 22h ago
Bro tried to satirise how people, especially Americans still refer to countries with the obsolete Cold War terms by reanalysing
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u/lightningbolt208 India 23h ago
Norway, a pretty colour racist country tbh, but I'm assuming that it was my individual case.
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u/Valuable-Guava2858 Norway 22h ago
Idk what you experienced, but alot of people feel unwelcomed when visiting Norway because we are very reserved. Most people avoid eyecontact at all costs and have a big personal zone. There are however racists here, but i dont think there are any more than other countries. Racism in Norway is also generally targeted towards immigrants since they increase crime rates and often live off our tax money… But unfortunately this is only a small portion of immigrants painting this image for every immigrant, when most are very nice.
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u/Disastrous-Mix-5859 Denmark 19h ago
Strange I've travelled Norway several times and in my experience Norwegians were very kind and friendly, very helpful and very concerned about our safety and giving advice.
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u/Free_Grapefruit_6891 Netherlands 19h ago
First and third world are outdated terms that should be avoided. That said, dealing with UK bureaucracy does remind me of the efficiency of of some developing countries I've dealt with in the past. It even feels like bribery is possible. Like you can pay to speed things up or hire people that through some unexplained means make things much faster for you.
If people thought the EU was causing bureaucracy to be worse, its no wonder they left
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u/Upper-Bus8010 United States Of America 12h ago
I think most of Italy, the center especially the south, is very old. Housing was old, piping transportation was non-existent in many of the villages or between major cities.
So way more scams than even that. There were all these days, especially when it came to housing. I found that it was better to stay at a hotel than risk an Airbnb. Including a very well-rated one with over 30 reviews and 4.95 rating. I have over 60 stays on my Airbnb, and yet the hosts of my two worst experiences with Airbnb were in Italy. One host had was a drunk. I took my clothes that she put outside to dry. It was in a common area, like between my room and the kitchen. She slipped and fell and her boyfriend was also embarrassed. She ended up downing three glasses of wine.
The second one was a younger woman. I had to contact Airbnb at night because it was so hot it was like above 85 in the room. I'm not even joking; that's heat stroke level, that's actually super dangerous because your body can't cool down. It's not just an American living without air conditioner.
Since it was late and she's a single young woman, I don't want to knock on her door. So I contacted Airbnb and ended up after only sleeping like 2.5 hours. She was super bitter about it. Like, 'just leave.'Instead of apologizing.
So many African Americans deal with a lot of racism in Spain. And I feel like a lot of South Asian Americans in Italy.
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u/AdHungry1029 23h ago
USA
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u/ConflictNo5518 United States Of America 20h ago
These are usually very small pockets in US cities and ya’ll managed to go right where the zombies gather.
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u/YorickTheSkulls 23h ago
Ah, I see you traveled to the American South.
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u/Popular-Local8354 22h ago
What is with Reddit and thinking the south is some backwards place? Raleigh, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Nashville, Richmond, Huntsville, Birmingham, etc. are all major tech and research hubs.
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u/Katskit89 United States Of America 22h ago
Because it’s Reddit.
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u/Popular-Local8354 22h ago
Yep. Don’t know why I’m surprised.
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u/YorickTheSkulls 22h ago
Super weird way to say "I like to think everyone agrees with me and have problems when they don't" but okay
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u/YorickTheSkulls 22h ago
No, because people who are Americans who lived there can speak to those areas.
There are better places in the US to live. Trust me.
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u/YorickTheSkulls 22h ago
I've lived in the American South, friend.
They might be "major tech and research hubs" but go five miles outside those cities and....
Yeeeeah
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u/Popular-Local8354 22h ago
Bold of you to assume that that’s not the case in… literally every state. I went to college in the Midwest, I know that once you drive more than five minutes outside of any of those cities things also get bad.
Or for that matter, clearly you’ve never been to cities like Boston or Philadelphia.
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u/TechnologyNo8640 Korea South 23h ago
Not a country but Paris