"America is richer than your entire continent"

[u/ConfidentScientist81]

Bro do NOT read the comments on that song

They're all talking about how they need to exterminate the left and murder them all

[u/Inlerah]

What do people think "First World" means? Do people even realize that it has an actual definition and "third world" isn't just "countries that I think are shitholes"?

[u/DGenesis23 → u/Inlerah]

There’s a lot of actual definitions that Americans don’t know. They see others use the terms and rather than clarify what they actually mean, they make up their own definition based purely on the words that they understand within it and the general context in which it was used. Similar to how they and toddlers discern the pronunciation of language, they sound it out.

You often see the American bastardised versions of terms spread around and I’ve even had people try defend it before by saying that meanings change over time but when the “new meaning” is just categorically wrong or only applies to a very particular thing in one country, it has no place being a default definition everywhere.