And nobody has used the term in the original meaning (i.e. outside both American and Russian bloc) for the last decades anyway.
Yes! This is my pet hate. Third world does not mean poor. Switzerland is third world as it was aligned to neither bloc.
It's Global South now. A Global South embedded engineer.
Both the old and new forms are clumsy approximations; Trinidad & Tobago is (are?) in the northern hemisphere.
"Developing world" was the version one euphemism ago. A developing world embedded engineer.
I totally agree. Trinidad & Tobago isn't a poor country. It is a petro state (oil and gas) in the Caribbean. GDP per capita is 20K USD. That is middle income.
It's not darkest Africa, or Haiti, but it is sufficiently outside the normal trade routes to not have routine, inexpensive access to components that most of us here take for granted.