Comments on: Downtown parking prices: gouging or too cheap? http://2texansdownunder.com/2008/02/08/downtown-parking-prices-gouging-or-too-cheap/ Australia is a lot like home, but really different. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:01:39 +0000 By: Paula http://2texansdownunder.com/2008/02/08/downtown-parking-prices-gouging-or-too-cheap/#comment-81 Paula Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:47:50 +0000 http://2texansdownunder.com/2008/02/08/downtown-parking-prices-gouging-or-too-cheap/#comment-81 Thanks for your reply Bob. While it is true that technically 'third world' is a way to categorize nations in terms of their social and economic advancement, more often than not it is used by Americans in a demeaning way without really knowing much about the country/city. I now understand you meant no such thing. Sorry I snapped and good luck down under. Thanks for your reply Bob. While it is true that technically ‘third world’ is a way to categorize nations in terms of their social and economic advancement, more often than not it is used by Americans in a demeaning way without really knowing much about the country/city. I now understand you meant no such thing.

Sorry I snapped and good luck down under.

]]> By: Bob http://2texansdownunder.com/2008/02/08/downtown-parking-prices-gouging-or-too-cheap/#comment-80 Bob Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:52:55 +0000 http://2texansdownunder.com/2008/02/08/downtown-parking-prices-gouging-or-too-cheap/#comment-80 After a "re-think:" Thanks, Paula. I take it you live in Bogota. Correct? Anyway, thanks for calling my attention to a term with negative connotations of which I was not aware. Now that I am, and I apologize to you and to anyone else who found the term offensive in my blog. I intended no put-down, but according to a writer for Wikipedia, the term "third world," along with "first world" and "second world," has been used to broadly categorize nations according to social, political and economic issues, but is now "deprecated." It may well be that, in the speech I heard, the term Enrique Penalosa used to describe Bogota was "developing," not "third world." As I was writing "third world city" I had a niggling thought in the back of my consciousness: I don't really know for sure what that term means, exactly. Reminder to self: Pay attention to such thoughts. -- Bob After a “re-think:” Thanks, Paula. I take it you live in Bogota. Correct? Anyway, thanks for calling my attention to a term with negative connotations of which I was not aware. Now that I am, and I apologize to you and to anyone else who found the term offensive in my blog.

I intended no put-down, but according to a writer for Wikipedia, the term “third world,” along with “first world” and “second world,” has been used to broadly categorize nations according to social, political and economic issues, but is now “deprecated.” It may well be that, in the speech I heard, the term Enrique Penalosa used to describe Bogota was “developing,” not “third world.”

As I was writing “third world city” I had a niggling thought in the back of my consciousness: I don’t really know for sure what that term means, exactly.

Reminder to self: Pay attention to such thoughts. — Bob

]]> By: Bob http://2texansdownunder.com/2008/02/08/downtown-parking-prices-gouging-or-too-cheap/#comment-79 Bob Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:54:17 +0000 http://2texansdownunder.com/2008/02/08/downtown-parking-prices-gouging-or-too-cheap/#comment-79 The former mayor of Bogota uses that term for his city. Sorry if I offended you. -- Bob The former mayor of Bogota uses that term for his city. Sorry if I offended you. — Bob

]]> By: Paula http://2texansdownunder.com/2008/02/08/downtown-parking-prices-gouging-or-too-cheap/#comment-77 Paula Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:14:10 +0000 http://2texansdownunder.com/2008/02/08/downtown-parking-prices-gouging-or-too-cheap/#comment-77 third-world city? whatever. you gringos get so full of yourselves when you refer to other places as 'third world'. like texas is such a great place anyway. third-world city? whatever. you gringos get so full of yourselves when you refer to other places as ‘third world’.

like texas is such a great place anyway.

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