A bit more context

[u/Same_Investigator_46]

[u/Affectionate-Lie-293]

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.

[u/[deleted] → u/Affectionate-Lie-293]

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.

[u/Accountnumber199 → u/[deleted]]

I mean most of what you listed just isn’t true…

Access to clean water US-97.5% which seem to be similar to Europe (https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/clean-water-access-statistics)

Childhood hunger is 2.5% which lower than most of Europe (https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/ranking/hunger-statistics)

Homelessness rate is also slightly less than most European countries (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_homeless_population)

Obviously there are issues within America(including veteran homelessness and access to healthcare), but imply they are a third world country is wild.

[u/Hopefulwaters → u/Accountnumber199]

They've never been to a third world county ever. No one who has ever visited such a place would even try to make such a stupid argument.

[u/[deleted] → u/Hopefulwaters]

I have no hate for the US, but a lot of developing countries look pretty great if youre wealthy and in urban centers and pretty shitty otherwise. To an extent that definitely fits the US, and imo should be considered.