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I don’t like this expression ‘First World problems.’ It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.
Teju Cole (via semperes)
it also tends to erase the daily lives and struggles of marginalized groups who are living in the “first world”. western countries are not perfect, and everyone here does not live fancy and luxurious lifestyles. many people living in these countries live what might be considered “third world” lifestyles although they would almost never be called that because of this weird first world-third world dichotomy.
(via feministorwomanist)
(Source: thewhiskeypropagandist)
