Stable economy, and high standard of living is missing, so they made it up, but they sure don’t met the bar anymore.

Stable economy, and high standard of living are missing dude.

Cuz Murica numba one!

Whose fucking definition?

It's really hilarious how they create arbitrary "definitions" for themselves and pick and choose when and how to use them.

Have to put down people of developing countries? yea, you're from third world country. It's suddenly about standard of life, civic sense, and freedom.

Falls to fascism like it's just another weekend and lets police run like brown shirts, does very little when they build concentration camps and climate choking machines, now the condition for "first world" switches to "we're still 'first world' because we defined it"

Fuck right off with your made up definitions. You can self assign yourself whatever the fuck you want, doesn't mean rest of the world has to adhere by your "definition".

I mean, that’s only if you choose to continue to use the US only defintion. Part of language is it evolving, the words usage has changed.

It now, no longer meets the bars of “stable economy” and “high standard of living”.

But sure, continue to use an antiquated definiton.

I never said or even implied that the US (and all/any others who use[d] it) would qualify for the term, FWIW.

Just another step on the euphemism treadmill honestly. And less accurate. Idk what's wrong with saying a country is developing or undeveloped, its much less ambiguous than global south or third world, when 99% of the time what youre trying to say is that the country lacks infrastructure, economic development, and law and order.

Imo "Global South" is actually the most problematic of the three because it implies that a country is undeveloped because of its geographic position. I.e. the implication is "if you're south of the equator, your country sucks." Any nation can move from undeveloped to developing or developing to developed, but you can't move your physical location on the map.

As someone from developing country, i'd rather be called that than Global South, because it imply that the southern countries are all underdeveloped while northern country are developed. Which kinda mean Austrailia, New Zealand, and Singapore are all underdeveloped country. Inaccurate as heck, but not as bad as saying first and third world.

For those in/from the US, perhaps. 😅