'Western' / 1st World
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- detritus
Revised, updated synonyms for?
Seems to me like both terms are, if not now - soon, descending into obsolescence. Japan is not 'The West', China and India could be argued as being increasingly of the 1½th World.
How will we, in future, refer to the greater washed masses, in a world of wider overall equality (with hideous peaks of inequality) and greater sensitivity?
- jimbojones0
emerging markets
- "receding markets"ukit
- aren't all markets receding atm?jimbojones
- raf0
If you don't stop blathering and get breeding right now, it will be either called "North Maghreb" or "North China".
- hell0
the old excess
- hell0
dif. into the old occidental excess, old excess of the rising sun and old excess australis
- lukus_W0
Why do we need to make the differentiation? As China & India gain in power, there'll be less (ego led) need to separate the west - because it'll only highlight our inadaquacy.
Chances are, the media will adapt to seeing us as part of 'one big family', imo.
- clearThoughts0
This whole "world classification" is a bit bullshit to be honest.
We don't really need any more of it and people should forget about it.Just because we are sitting in front of expensive computers, talking about buying a new useless gadget - iPad - which none of us even probably need, doesn't make us superior or happier than people outside the "1st world".