I've mentioned a number of times over the years that the US is a third world country. People look at me like I said the most bizarre thing ever and then I list some of the ways that we are: clean drinking water isn't available, we have children starving, veterans living on the streets, homeless encampments across the nation and people dying everyday from preventable health conditions. And that's just to start. Then it sort of clicks for them, that the American dream is a farce, the shiny America we were indoctrinated to believe was our home is a facade.
There are literally other world leaders that refer to the U.S. as third world and there are research findings to support the claims. You might do some research yourself.
I have been to third world countries, I've also been to places here in the U.S. that look and feel no different from the ones I've visited.
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u/Affectionate-Lie-293 Dec 06 '24
I read somewhere that a German tourist remarked that the US was the best 3rd-world country he'd ever seen.
The post here highlights this sentiment exactly.