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Old 08-05-2011, 02:55 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon View Post
Having read the story again, its Brazil! why the hell is this news?, I assumed this was California.

Is it news that hospitals are not very good in the third world.
Brazil isn't exactly the third world. They're actually above the world average in terms of GDP per capita.

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Unless you mean "Third World" in the Cold War sense (countries not aligned with either NATO or the Soviet Bloc), in which case that is true of Brazil, but most people don't use the term "third world" that way. Usually they're referring to poor, pre-industrial countries with very low per capita GDP.

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