Did you grow up in a third world country?

Hello there EKOBERNIE.. :D yup i did grow up in a third world country... Philippines... hmmm, well.. its considered a third world country coz its like we're left behind.. as they say... third world countries are like 100 years behind... are economy is low... and there are millions of people below the poverty line... farming here is still manual labor... we don't have machines yet.. that do them... its just like only last year we have automated elections... and its like the old technology of first world countries.. were like sooo new to us... Have a nice day! :)

I was born in England and it is a developed country in Europe. I have traveled to more than fifty different countries in the world so far in my lifetime. The most wealthy counties that I have been to are Norway and Switzerland. The poorest places I have seen are in South Africa in a township with very poor people living there, small pockets of the Maldives where local people live and in streets on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Out of the other English speaking countries I have been to America in 1993, 2001 and 2002, Australia in 1993, 1994 and 2000, New Zealand in 2001 and 2002, Belize in 2006 and Canada in 2010. I was surprised to see a lot of homeless people living in cardboard boxes in Los Angeles. I found Australia to be a very happy country and the standard of living there seems high. I loved it there and wished I have been born there. It was a shame my parents didn't emigrate before I was born. New Zealand is wonderful and people have a fairly high standard of living there. Countries like India and China are now super with their technology. Many countries in Africa have terrible poverty, war or natural disasters. I looked at a list of the 20 poorest countries and apart from Nepal all these are African countries. Tourism brings money with it and Kenya has lots to offer the tourist like safaris and tropical beaches. Chad and Niger are little heard of compared to Malaysia and Thailand for tourism.