#third world country

[americanmarketplace]

CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC NOT A DEMOCRACY!!!!!!

PEOPLE WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY WE ARE A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC !!!!!!!!! DEMOCRATS WANT A DEMOCRACY TO TAKE AWAY YOUR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS !!!!!!! DEMOCRACY HAS NO INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS MAJORITY RULES !!!!!! PLEASE STOP THIS DEMOCRACY CRAP ITS A TOTAL LIE < FOR THE LOVE OF GOD START THINKING FOR YOURSELVES DO SOME RESEARCH AND LEARN THE FACTS !!!!!!

[brazilspill]

Americans will ask third worlders stuff like "Do you have alligators/jaguars/lions/etc walking in the streets?" because they think it's a marker of third world countries being poor.

Meanwhile, we have to be like "No, Becky, you don't see alligators wandering the streets in Brazil. You're thinking of Florida."

[beep-beep-imma-sheep]

Buenos días, mi gente, les cuento que se me fue la luz en la madrugada. Reviso WhatsApp y a una amiga se le fue también a esas horas, a mí plush no le llegan los mensajes y me encuentro con esto:

¿Me río?

[ancient-healer]

[cynicalcharisma]

no human has made me cry as much as my visa appointment (or lack there of) has. oh to be an international student moving from third world to first world. like bye bestie i do give up now.

[daybreaksys]

"cave update is best update"

"newest update best update"

well, unfortunately, one of their features is requiring an OpenGL that only exists in first world PCs, pricing out most of the world, which was already massively underrepresented in the Minecraft community.

The visible MC community was already 99,999% US and UK, now they'll be the only ones there.

[zozoubbb]

just existing as a queer person in this world is so disheartning. i love being queer, i love havin queer experiences and i love my community, but it is sad seeing so much hate envolving us just living our lifes. it has been worse in the past and we got throught it, althought it seems like we will always be dehumanized by society. it is exausting. recently in my country, Brazil, a political party that our late president ( Jair Bolsonaro, he was a dickhead and a neoliberal) was a part of was trying to pass a legislation to criminalize homoafetive marriage and only recognize male-female marriages. i dont think this law has much chance of becoming a thing, but at the same time i fear it and it also scares me seeing that many people actually supported that. i love being brazilian and i love being queer but seeing how the LGBTQIA+ community, specially our trans siblings, is seen in here makes me lose hope. having a world where queer and trans people can live peacefully and proudly, without fearing bigots, is too much to ask?

[fanofelizabetharden]

I saw Elizabeth Arden wash down the drain

Staying over at a friend's place during a festival led me to Elizabeth Arden. A faded white plastic tube from the My Fifth Avenue collection, its shower gel was the epitome of moisturizing. As a frequent user of generic shower gel for bathing purposes, I was bewitched by its subtle fragrance and rich lathering. It was to no surprise that my heart broke when the previously applied gel eventually washed down the drain. My third world country heart ached for the loss of such a beloved product, a shower gel that would have pleased people for aeons to come. Such is the mindset of the third world miser and her silly little heart.

[pixeledmel]

I grew up in a small town in a third-world country and everything that I saw online felt unachievable, things like Arctic Monkeys concerts, and aesthetics that just felt so out of place, and I felt like I didn't belong to where I lived. Now I'm here, living that girl's dream, but I still feel like I'm missing something. Maybe the problem was just me.

[remotelightswitch]

America is fucking disgusting.

[brazilspill]

The Brazil 1st world media doesn't show

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais

Salvador, Bahia

Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais

Manaus, Amazonas

Recife, Pernambuco

Macapá, Amapá

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul

Florianópolis, Santa Catarina

[wereallmadanyways]

[farfromjustwords]

Third-world countries, underdeveloped, developing nations, and emergent nations are some of the names used to describe unstable economies around the world. Sometimes the names sound weird. For example; underdeveloped just sounds like a premature child.

Here I outline two reasons why they stayed the way they are for so long without change.

It's no news that some of these countries would have been developed nations by now if not for the manipulation by very well-known, unknown forces.

[beep-beep-imma-sheep]

Living in a place where you can get random public services shortages is truly something else.

There's a whole sarcastic rant under the cut.

No cursing, just overly bitter about this because it's late, I have no electricity and I just wanted to sleep since it's been a long day-.

You know, I'm doing my own thing and then BOOM! No water for u, sorry not sorry. When are you having it again? In a day, two, three?

Or maybe we can just not give you any electricity??? How's that sound? For 5 hours each day, yeah??? And if we're feeling extra silly, have an entire month without electricity. (Has happened twice /gen).

Or!! We could!?! Have nO public lighting at all???? How fun!!

Oh, oh! And gas! How about no one can fill up their tanks!! Or!! Or!! Maybe almost no one has any food security?? Three meals a day what is that??

Or perhaps, perhaps!! You can't walk, ride, drive on the street because that's no longer concrete, that's just a collection of holes in the ground. And weeds.

O trash truck, how I miss you. It's been a while since you visited us.

And- I could point out a lot of other things but honestly I- don't want to. Ahhh. I know there's other people that has it worse, but the thing is- that doesn't change the fact that there's real struggles happening in this side of things. And those struggles are not any less valid.

We all should have access to basic human rights because we're human. And among those rights is, you know, being able to live without struggling to eat, having a roof above your head, have access to water, electricity, health care... That kind of thing.

Those are meant to be taken for granted because it's a necessity, it's something we all should have and ahsjshanjkabs.

[torsi-k]

Just came to the shocking realization that most social media apps have a lot of ads and the only reason I don’t get that much is because my third world country doesn’t have access to that feature

[paddysnuffles]

I don't know if you should really have a say in Cuban matters, as a tourist. Guests to North Korea only see the best side of it, too...

a) Saying the US is worse than Cuba isn't "having a say in Cuban matters"

It's giving my opinion as a third-worlder based on what I know of the two countries after visiting both.

b) I'm not some first-worlder looking at Cuba through rose-tinted glasses. I'm from a third-world country. I know what poverty looks like, and I know how to recognize a bad situation when I see it.

Poor Cubans have electricity. They have a minimum food allowance so they don't starve. They have free access to some of the best healthcare in the world. They can afford to travel by plane. They can read.

That's not normal for poor people in other parts of the world.

c) I didn't live like a tourist.

My professor and his Cuban wife set up the program specifically with the intention of showing what real life is like in Cuba by having students live as Cubans.

I went to a Cuban university alongside Cuban students

I used Cuban money (not the tourist money)

I had a Cuban ID

I travelled via Cuban transports that only the Cubans use; including getting dropped off the side of a highway by a bus because where we were going didn't have buses as well as taking a camión bus at three in the morning with only Cubans

I visited the homes of my Cuban friends in their villages

I talked in Spanish with the locals, including my Cuban friends, who were not shy about their complaints about life in Cuba (most of which had to do with the illegal US embargo)

I took a class on Cuban history as part of my stay

I visited the equivalent of a Cuban campground that only Cubans are allowed to go to -- with Cuban friends