NY Tmes Op-Ed Columnist: How We Are Ruining America

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The Asians have always been first world which means they are smart. Every country that was first world in 1500 is first world today. There are no exceptions except for countries that didn’t exist and then you look at the founding country. Conversely despite billions in foreign aid no third world country has ever entered the first world. Why do you think this is true?

@SAY You can’t use “first world”, an outdated term that is very limited in scope (industrialized capitalist countries of western Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand), to mean something it doesn’t mean.

First World
ˌfərst ˈwərld/Submit
noun
the industrialized capitalist countries of western Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

Even the leader of China confirmed that definition.

In February 1974, Chairman Mao Zedong set forth his strategic thinking of the division of the three worlds. He observed, “In my view, the United States and the Soviet Union belong to the first world. The in-between Japan, Europe and Canada belong to the second world. The third world is very populous. Except Japan, Asia belongs to the third world. So does the whole of Africa and Latin America”.

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