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Is "Global South" an offensive term? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by micnd90@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Because it is not entirely correct, China is a Northern Hemisphere country and Australia, New Zealand are Southern Hemisphere countries

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[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

In any case, it's really just avoiding naming imperialist oppression and exploitation as the common factor among the countries it is attempting to describe.

Communists use both "Third World" and "Global South" constantly to mean this, especially the latter. There's "imperial core" and "imperial periphery" as well, though, which are (as you point out) less euphemistic.