First World ProblemsOnemunki says: We live in a world of genuine tragedy, starvation and terror. So, after hearing stories of cruise line passengers complaining at the air conditioning breaking down, what stories of sheer single-minded self-pity get your goat?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 12:00)
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Since when has Australia been 'First World'? Surely it's second world at best.(
2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 23:57,
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History Lesson!Second World originally referred to communist states, as a result of the cold war. First World related to the Allied nations, and third were neutral. It just so happened that the neutral countries were also very poor, so it became an economic distinction.
Australia was always first world. Second World largely no longer exists, either in the economic or political sense.
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