[lbo-talk] language query

[bitch at pulpculture.org]

At 06:21 PM 2/5/2007, Carl Remick wrote:
>>From: Liza Featherstone <lfeather at panix.com>
>>
>>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.
>
>I would guess that many non-Westerners dislike collective labeling of any 
>kind by the West.

I would think they term to go by is what people in 'the global South' want 
to be called. I hadn't noticed that anyone thinks it's an exclusive, 
righteous club  -- any more than the same could possibly be conveyed by 
"third world" (as in "third world women"). But, I don't get out much.

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