Is this what the World thinks a majority of Americans are like?

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irstupid said:

PullusPardus said:

HappySqurriel said:

I don't think most people from other countries think most Americans are like that, but they tend to believe that (for some reason) there are far more uneducated and trashy people in the United States than there are in similarly developed nations.

 

this is why people see americans as ignorant, why do you guys always do this? 

this whole "first world country" or "Most powerful country" thing.

Didn't know people still used 1st world, third world ect.

Is there a second world?  Never heard of that.

I thought poeple just essentially said now "developed country or not"  Not sure what qualifies as developed, but I'm not doubting Americans aren't arogant, but isn't almost every country in a way arogant.  I mean what good is your country if you don't believe you are the best?  I would hope that every country believes they are #1.

There's technically a definition of "Second World Countries" it usually refers to former communist-socialist countries (Russia, Eastern Europe, etc), but it's more like a theoretical definition more than a practical one. 

When combining these "world" definitions they not necessarily refer to economic value alone, but political, social and cultural value. Even though I hate the term Third World Country this one refers to countries that can have a capitalist government but have a decent percentage of poverty, communist government that are rich or absolute monarchies (So a lot of aspect need to be taken into consideration).

There's also a new term called Fourth World Country, but that is rarely use and refers to indigenous peoples living within or across state boundaries.

http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world_countries.htm