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Is the US still considered first world, or has it been recategorize as second world yet?
It's a first world in title, but third world in practice.
Insane comment.
America has big issues but to compare it's magnitude of issues, and quantity population affected is a slap in the face to those experiencing life in a real "third world" country.
TBH, I'm currently staying in a third world country and I feel safer here than in US. YMMV, there's a lot of third world country as the main definition of third world country is a country that's not aligned to any political bloc in the Cold War, the West being First World and the Soviet bloc being Second World, hence nations not being aligned to any of those bloc is a Third World.
That's why I put third world in quotes.
What people here are describing is places with massive government unrest, or massive poverty, etc.
I know it's edgy to say "oh are you talking about America" but that's just not the case
Yes we know
That's typical first world problem - oh no, can't buy a new iPhone this year, I'm so poor...
I recall a time in my youth when a young American could work full time and afford an apartment without splitting it with three roommates.
What an insane always-online opinion.
The Second World would have been the soviet block. There is no second world today. The third world though is real. By definition the US will be always first world as the first world is defined as the pro-wester with heavy industry. No matter how people live in this world.
I don't think very many people use those definitions for first/ second/ third world anymore. The colloquial definitions of "first world = rich second world = not so rich but not so poor and third world = poor" are more useful anyway due to as you say the Soviet Union not existing anymore so nobody can align with it.
Yeah, back in the cold war that was actually the common perception anyway even while it was initially meant differently. So no harm done using this easy adaption.
At least it's no democracy. (being forced between 2 evils sponsored by companies is no democracy)
Third world was based on who participated in WW2, third world not taking part
No, it was the cold war. The First World was US/West Aligned, the Second World aligned with the Soviet Union/Communism, and the Third World trying to sit out and not take sides.
Yeah it's this.
So Cuba and North Korea are "Second World" but they meet the contemporary / colloquial definition of "Third World".
It's just a dumb imprecise term.
Developing Nation might be better but still not great.
My bad, you're right
Thanks for the correction
But is it really the same country that participated in WW2?
Didn't it grow in power as a result of WW2?