Why not just "poor countries"?
--- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Non-industrialized nations versus industrialized
> nations? That's one way my Sociology 101 framed one
> possible division. Of course, I know there are some,
> er, "third world" nations that I suppose one could
> argue are relatively industrialized, so....
>
> The entire dilemma with this terminology could
> itself
> be the focus of an article, of course.
>
> -B.
>
>
> Liza Featherstone wrote:
> > I wonder what LBO-sters -- especially those living
> in non-Western
> > countries, but everyone should feel free to weigh
> in
> -- think of the
> > expression "the global South." I really try hard
> to
> stay away from
> > expressions that convey speakers are members of
> some
> special,
> > exclusive, righteous club, so I don't like it. I
> have used it on a
> > few occasions, out of a sense that "developing
> world" was too
> > optimistic and imperialist -- though it's very
> accepted in policy
> > wonk circles, probably for exactly this reason --
> and "Third World"
> > vaguely problematic. But I'm resistant. Thoughts?
> Apologies in
> > advance for the naivete and likely provincialism
> of
> the question.
> >
> > Liza
>
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