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re: 1st World Problems
Posted on 3/4/15 at 11:40 pm to pioneerbasketball
Posted on 3/4/15 at 11:40 pm to pioneerbasketball
These are all 1st World Problems but when it comes to social, racial, and economic problems I think the term is dismissive. "First World Problems" applies to Europe and the rest of the West fairly well because they have a fantastic social safety net and great health care + higher ed system. IOW, it's exceedingly hard if not impossible to be impoverished there.
Here in the US tho, Black Americans, Poor White Trash, Native Americans etc. live terribly and relatively speaking often worse than 2nd and 3rd World Nations where everyone is all in it together and people help one another out. Then there's Southern Appalachia, the Delta, Indian Reservations and extreme ghettos/inner city areas all of which where there's no way out.
Most of America is rich and truly a land of opportunity BUT there are too many places where folks live forgotten in the 2nd and 3rd world here at home. We desperately need to fix this!
That said, I'm fortunate to live mostly with first world problems even tho my rural area brings me 2nd/3rd world problems every now and then. BUT I know damn well it will pass soon so it doesn't have the same effect. I'm lucky and I know it.
Here in the US tho, Black Americans, Poor White Trash, Native Americans etc. live terribly and relatively speaking often worse than 2nd and 3rd World Nations where everyone is all in it together and people help one another out. Then there's Southern Appalachia, the Delta, Indian Reservations and extreme ghettos/inner city areas all of which where there's no way out.
Most of America is rich and truly a land of opportunity BUT there are too many places where folks live forgotten in the 2nd and 3rd world here at home. We desperately need to fix this!
That said, I'm fortunate to live mostly with first world problems even tho my rural area brings me 2nd/3rd world problems every now and then. BUT I know damn well it will pass soon so it doesn't have the same effect. I'm lucky and I know it.
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Posted on 3/4/15 at 11:41 pm to Prof
Include a picture next time.
Posted on 3/4/15 at 11:56 pm to Prof
I would have to postulate that [Western] Europe has all that socialist safety net BECAUSE they choose to help one another out. i.e. They are in this way "noble" like the 2nd & 3rd worlders you mentioned. The big difference is that they they can afford it. This because they have, for centuries running, tended to help themselves.
Miller wrote that the first thing American women noticed in Europe was that it was unsanitary. The first thing I noticed there is that almost everyone looks a lot like almost everyone else.
Again, like in those 2nd and 3rd world countries where everybody gets along.
Miller wrote that the first thing American women noticed in Europe was that it was unsanitary. The first thing I noticed there is that almost everyone looks a lot like almost everyone else.
Again, like in those 2nd and 3rd world countries where everybody gets along.
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