[lit-ideas] Re: Didn't I tell you so?

I mean if "third world" is simply a label for some
negative qualities of societies, why not simply speak
about negative qualities of societies ?

O.K.


--- Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> --- Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > OK: Most countries that are identified
> > as "third world" will have lower levels of
> personal
> > violence than the US, I think.
> > 
> > It's wrong to speak of Brasil as third-world, as
> it
> > will 
> > soon surpass the US in food production and is the
> > economic 
> > center of Latin America. Nevertheless it does have
> > some 
> > third-world qualities, and the violence there is
> > terrible.
> 
> *So if Brazil is developing economically that means
> that it is no longer a third world country, but if
> it
> has high levels of violence that is "a third world
> quality." Strange.
> 
> O.K.
> 
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