9/21 The Czech Republic is not a third world nation. It is a
\_ % webster "third world"
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3 : the aggregate of the underdeveloped nations of the world
developing nation with $11700 per capita GDP, growth rate of -0.5%
(1999), and an external debt of 24.3 billion. USA's per capita
GDP is $33900. Malaysia's per capita GDP is $10700.
international no-car day! see http://www.carbusters.ecn.cz
\_ *.cz? Like they'd miss their cars for a day in the Czech republic.
I'd like to see something like International Fix Your Fucked Up
Third World Country Day coming from a place like that instead.
\_ Do you know your geography? The Czech republic is a modern
European nation. Just because it's considered Eastern Europe
doesn't mean that it's a Third World country.
\_ It's not a third world country. It's just a poor,
decrepit ex-Soviet-bloc nation suffering from 40+ years
of commie mismanagement. Otherwise, quite nice. -John
\_ What's the definition of third world then? I thought
"thrid world" is the PC term to describe poor countries.
\_ "First" or "Old" World = Europe. Don't forget that
Bohemia/western Czechoslovakia/Czech republic has
historically been a political and cultural center.
"New" World = Americas. "Third" World was some
mid-20th-century play on that to describe all
the second-rate backwaters discovered afterwards
with economic problems. -John
\_ % webster "first world"
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Etymology: after third world
Date: 1967
: the highly developed industrialized nations
often considered the westernized countries of
the world
apart from getting the order of usage wrong (i.e.
third world -> first world rather than the other
way around) and being ignorantly eurocentric,
you're correct.
\_ At least I speak a FOREIGN LANGUAGE, am
not INCORRIGIBLY FAT, and DON'T EVER
WATCH JERRY SPRINGER. -John
\_ perhaps. but at least i knew what
"first world" meant.
\_ No, you know how to have your mom
read a dictionary to you, and you
obviously have no clue about what
countries are industrialized and
developed. -John
\_ you made ad hominem attacks, good.
but you should throw in Hitler and
the Nazis in there to distract from
the fact that you had no idea what
first and third world meant when
you started shooting off your mouth
on motd.
\_ then it doesn't sound like he has a problem with geography,
does it? it's more of an economics deficiency he has.
\_ No deficiency. Have you seen it? I think you need to
check on what the word "modern" means. CZ is a third
world country. Just because they're vaguely white doesn't
make it a modern western nation. They're little different
from any South American banana republic. It isn't just
blacks, hispanics and other non-whites that live in the
Third World. Thank you both for trying though.
\_ Have you ever travelled outside the Bay Area? -John
\_ Nobody noticed. Some cities had even worse traffic. Barely
anyone even knew it was happening until they heard on the news
what a flop it was this evening. -John
\_ Cars are here to stay (at least until transporters become
generally available).
\_ Chech know a thing or two about mechanical engineering and cars.
Pop quiz: which Western car compay buy out entire Tatra design team,
why they did it and what they are working on now?
As far as being 'vaguely' white which I take as they don't quite
fit a canonical definition of white, how to do explain
disproporationate representation of Czech chicks among the ranks
of 'supermodels'? -muchandr
\_ Volkswagen, right? They bought Skoda too. -John
\_ Volkswagen is a joke. In fact all european cars are jokes.
The only car manufacturers that matter are American and
Japanese. With Japanese you get quality, with American you
get power. - Proud owner of a 260 HP Lincoln that routinely
smokes the finest that Europe has to offer.
\_ Bring it over here. By the time you get up to 10mph
I'm halfway over the horizon, you coal-burning hairy
tractor-driving barbarian. -John
\_ I don't want your drool lowering the value of my
car. Filthy commoners and thier COMMUNIST cars.
\_ that proves they are 'vaguely'! Per the current fashion trend
\_ When was the last time you bought a Czech car? I don't see
many trambant dealers around.
\_ Moron. Trabants were East German and they're a massive
cult object (like VW bugs.) Tatra were/are a Russian truck
design bureau. And Skoda (Czech) is about as big as
Saturn in the US. -John
\_ Czech supermodels are hot and slutty. |
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