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Barozi said:
Roderic_Blackwood said:

Mexico, a third world country, has a strong culture of videogames, pc or consoles; it has the biggest videogame market in Latin America (more than Brazil in terms of revenue). Just because is third world doesn't mean that everybody here is struggling to live. I'm struggling to finish SMT Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker, though. There are several store chains that sells videogames and several café internet that serves the people who doesn´t have internet access at home. So the idea the OP said is feasible in countries like Mexico. 

Mexico is no third world country and neither is Brazil or China. They are newly industrialized countries or second world.

Mexico is a third world country but nowadays we use the euphemism "newly industrialized countries". The term second world refered to the old communist countries that didn't fit in the western concepts first world (developed countries) or third world (undeveloped countries). The thing here is that a third world country can have an industrialized development like Mexico or Brazil or can be completely underdeveloped like Tanzania, that's why is not the proper word anymore.