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What is meant by the expression Global South?

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Another tone deaf moniker coined by academics and pols of the West who have never worked a day in their life breaking a sweat nor a real job and know nothing of how real people live much less what real people find important and care about.

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kyushubillToday  07:30 am JST

Another tone deaf moniker coined by academics and pols of the West who have never worked a day in their life breaking a sweat nor a real job and know nothing of how real people live much less what real people find important and care about.

The dictator apologists certainly find it to be a useful term to claim that the West is isolated.

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You’d better not really know what’s behind that expression.

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short explanation.

BS

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It simply means below the equator. Get a globe, take a look. But really, who cares?

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A "politer" way (they think) of saying "third world"

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Absolutely, thE current PC way to say third world. They'll come up with a new whitewash word later, I'm sure.

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