re: #555 jorline

Here’s a link to what I posted earlier.

WHO raises pandemic flu alert level to phase 5

Why do they always refer to underdeveloped counties as developing countries? Most have been trying to develop for several hundred years…and still a long way to go.

Somewhat ironically, it was the lefties who came up with the term “third world” back in the fifties or sixties. Now, of course, considered terribly impolite, if not “racist”. I agree that “developing” is a silly whitewash. A good acronym I’ve seen used is simply LDCs, for “less deveoped countries”.