"Alistair Kitchen's deportation is a clear case of retaliation in connection with his reporting, and such action sends a chilling message to journalists," said one press freedom defender.
I mean, by the original meaning of “first world country” we were by definition.
The first and second world countries were the US and USSR after WW II, and their immediate spheres of influence. The term “third world country” was, if I recall correctly, originally a self-assigned label to essentially say “we’re not part of this shit-flinging fight”. Which then people started viewing as “too poor to be worth dragging into either major power’s sphere of influence” and then just “poor”.
We’re not really a first world country. I’m not sure that we ever were.
I mean, by the original meaning of “first world country” we were by definition.
The first and second world countries were the US and USSR after WW II, and their immediate spheres of influence. The term “third world country” was, if I recall correctly, originally a self-assigned label to essentially say “we’re not part of this shit-flinging fight”. Which then people started viewing as “too poor to be worth dragging into either major power’s sphere of influence” and then just “poor”.