In three panels, why I hate the phrase "first-world problems" (also the song 'Streets of London.') I've been meaning to draw this for a while, and finally did today because I've thought of a more subtle problem with "first-world problems;" which is that it implies that people living in the third world don't have any aspirations beyond immediate survival, and don't worry about, frex, complex interpersonal relationships, etiquette, their status within their local communities, looking good, or what sort of long-term future they'd like to have. You know, the stuff that makes us fully-rounded human beings.
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Date: 2012-05-04 11:41 am (UTC)From:My personal peeves are with the terms "third world" and its execrable cousin "the global south" and all the "underserved" that live therein.
And for that matter, that the primary "first world" country is one of the most "third world" of the lot.
But that's me... just coming onto your blog to bitch, I'm afraid.