by Pajarita » Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:33 am
Actually, originally, Third World countries were the ones that were not aligned with USA and its allies , the First World, OR with Russia and the communist countries, the Second World, but, as all of them were poor, the term became a synonym of 'poor'. Now they are called 'developing' countries but they were Third World when I was growing up. And, in all honesty, there are developing countries that are better for their people than the developed ones... In my country, everybody gets medical insurance and people 70 years old or more get it for free as well as a small pension from the government even if they never worked in their lives. People there don't have as much as they do here -people don't have walking closets full of clothes and shoes or four TV sets for 2 people- but everybody eats very well, there are hardly any homeless at all, education all the way to high school is obligatory and free all the way to PHDs -and students can use public transportation for free- and anybody with a job can take a nice vacation because, by law, they have to be paid what itś called a 'vacational salary'. There are hardly any children in 'the system' because people take in the ones that need it and old people are taken care of by the family or even friends. And everybody is very well informed about social and political issues because voting is obligatory. The country is poor and we still need to make improvements in issues like animal law, for example, but itś a beautiful place, full of good people.