"America is a Third World Country"

Note- This is a suburbanite talking about suburbia and stuff. Take that as you will.

If a person were to say that the modern day [1950's style] suburb is like a third world country I would question there grip on reality. Like the suburbs were made to not only separate classes but used as a way to separate races from each other. With majority of suburbanites being white and minorities seemingly made to live in the increasingly unsafe cities because of a whole slue of other issues connected to inequality, increasing suburbanization, and the new "American dream." This also connects to Canada too since both countries used the same tactics to get rid of poor people and minorities when the rapid suburbanization happed for both.

Also, if a crime/crimes were to happen everyday but the living quality were to stay the same or improve I wouldn't consider it a third world country. This isn't even including on how with the more people you have in one place the likely hood of X happening would only go up. Like organized crime.

I totally agree. I hear the phrase "America is a third world country in a Gucci belt" relatively often online and it is so incredibly out-of-touch with reality that it shocks me. I think it's just another instance of actual critiques on American society being replaced with meaningless phrases that people parrot on the internet without actually having a nuanced opinion. 

Obviously, modern America has increasingly more issues related to poverty and crime but saying "it's like a third world country" is just reductive. It fails to investigate the material causes behind such changes in society, fails to take a particular stance against how that should be combatted, and fails to acknowledge the exploitation and suffering working class people in developing countries experience. 

I think by saying that America is a "third world country" though, Americans and people from other developed countries (because I also see a lot of them saying this) ignore the plights of developing countries and how many of their issues are rooted in imperialism and continued exploitation at the hands of American and Western European empires. 

well outside our country in other country's   they have famine  disease ...fighting in their streets ... they can not get food or food is to high to buy even grains with the damn wars that supple that for them ... an i could go on ...we are lucky to be in America ... I am not saying we don't need help with the homeless... those that die from drugs ... finding work with descent pay  ... or health care ... we have a great deal of issues but if u look for help it is out there ...then we have natural disasters the gov. helps if those who get the $ don't rip it off for them selves ... u do find that a lot the greed will not go away ... 1 reason the US is like it is ...  I  know it is hard i was young once hahaha... and know things are harder now ... even for the elders an veterans... but i see good people trying to help but I would not want to be anywhere else ... people do not get what we do an their lives are harder and die more ... why do you believe democracy is so important to the US  ... becouse if u really want to live under a dictator... I would say go do that an live under that kind of hell ...

people say that bc they've never actually been to a real TWC