As if we don't have the same value as humans.'
When she heard the label growing up, she says it struck her as making 'this assumption about people outside of the 'First World' - that they lived really different lives, the assumption they were poor, they should be happy to eat every day. 'I feel like it connotes this superiority and inferiority,' says Ngozi Erondu, senior scholar at the O'Neill Institute at Georgetown University, who identifies as Nigerian American and says half her family lives in Nigeria. As did people on social media.Įveryone knows what they meant - countries that are poor, where health care systems are weak, where democracy may not be exactly flourishing.īut the very term 'Third World' is a problem. Capitol and took over the building on Wednesday, many Americans said that's what happens in 'Third World' countries. The question of what to call the 'developing world' is a developing debate.
