Is Greece a third world country?

Question

I went to Athens and it reminded me of Cairo

Answer 1

A question by a person with no identity (have a look at his/her profile)...and no respect (nor sense of the reality).
Any comparison with Cairo is beyond any reality. I visited Cairo and apart from the museums and historical sites it's a city of mess, buildinds about to crall down, garbage on the balconies waiting there to be collected once in a week's time, dirty neighbouhoods, ancient tombs used by poor people as residence, flies all over, no secure drinkable water etc.
So, why this question and this comment?

Answer 2

European funds and access to loans at German interest rates pulled Greece to first world country status. I think everyone realized by 2010 this was just a façade. Greece s real economic output dictates that it is a third world country. For geo strategic reasons many nations poured trillions of dollars into this country in the hopes of turning it into a modern first world nation. Didn t work and it looks like they ve given up. Without being artificially propped up by the west Greece will descend to what it is capable of. On par with the likes of Albania and Syria.

Answer 3

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Is Greece a third world country?
I went to Athens and it reminded me of Cairo

Answer 4

Yeah some parts of Athens remind me of Cairo too. But no Greece is not a third world country. Just like you cant say that the US is a third world country if you happen upon the projects in New York. Every country in the world has some poor and nasty places. And not all of Athens is like that. If you go to the north you will see some pretty spanking rich areas. Besides, Athens is not a keyhole into what Greece is really like.

Answer 5

Cairo is one of many world's great megacities. As wonderful because it is crazy, and as full of historical finery as it is half dilapidated, Cairo is often a town that tourists love and hate in similar methods therefore find out by which group you will soon be with the help of that place hotelbye . In Cairo you will discover, beyond the current hubbub, a history that spans centuries. Saturated in vigour, Cairo is wherever you probably get a feel for Egyptian street living and number trip to Egypt is total with no stay in the city Arabs contact Umm al-Dunya (The Mother of the World). The definitely incredible assortment of antiquities exhibited in Cairo's Egyptian Museum helps it be one of many world's good museums and positively a place for everyone's to visit.

Answer 6

A third world country?!!!!!Now I've heard it all! Ouaou this pathetic ignorance is killing me!
You went to Athens? When was that in 1821???
Third world is not a country that not many years ago gave Karatheodoris the teacher of Einstein himself! Read, learn!!!!!

Answer 7

Greece used to be a third world country up to the early 1960s. But since then it has become on par with the rest of the EU member states. It is a small country and and it is a financially weaker partner of the EU but so are Spain, Ireland, Portugal etc. I challenge your comparison to Cairo. For one thing Athens does not have 4 million people literally living in graves (in the necropolis of Cairo). Crime rate is definitely lower than most of the "advanced" nations. By far less than the US or England or France. And Greeks do posses one of the oldest cultures in the world and the oldest in Europe.

Answer 8

No, it sounds absolutely funny, and I don't see why Greeks even bother to answer this. If you wanted to insult or something, you must do it much much better.
If you are from Europe, Greece is definitely 1st world country to you, if nothing else, than at least because it is close.
Never been to Cairo, but from what I have heard, it can't be compared to any European city/country, not even with Albania, it is different continent/culture/world.

Answer 9

Hello dear!
It seems you travel a lot! That is great! Continue traveling and you will be wiser! Traveling makes you be a citizen of the world, respecting the places you have been to, because we can all take from all places something!
Regarding classification of countries, to others and third world, we have to know what do you mean by third world!
Let us remind ourselves that because of those people in Athens we are living in cities and homes and not on trees and caves. They have developed arts, sciences, ... Even the alphabet, the letters we are now communicating has come from there! Throughout time, they always offer to humanity! Even in our days, that people in Athens are not that rich, they allow more than a million poor refugees from countries around the world to seek for a descent life! You have been in Athens and you have noticed that, correct? When I go there, I find people from all races, many (about a million) poor refugees from countries surrounding Greece, and others from Africa, Asia, Middle East, other European countries, even Latin Americans and some Australians are seeking to improve their lives in Athens!
Whenever I visit Athens, and I do it as often as I can, I feel better and I respect the people for their hospitality, rich feelings, night life, love for anything strange!
I wrote a lot, but I owe it to them!

Answer 10

If you ask people who live in Greece like me they would say that it is a wonderful place but it is a third world country. Living here can be fun but it can also suck.People rarely are friendly the only thing people want most of the times is money.We have most of the characteristics of a third world country like poverty, unemployment and sometimes hunger. It is not safe to walk around in the street during night without a huge group of people and even if it is safer not to.We are optimistic people and we can be friendly.We are not like Cairo.Women are are respected!If you went to places which looked like Cairo (which is not bad but women are not respected and that is fallocratic)well I guess you didn't choose the great places to visit.Last but not least a country has two sides you must visit both and respect them.For your information Cairo is not supposed to be a third world country and neither is Greece although people here see this matter from another point of view you have no right to characterize a country like that if you haven't seen both sides

Answer 11

Greece is definitely not a third world country...it is a normal first world country just like the US...i'm greek and i visit greece just about every year, and just because a country is different than what ur used to, that doesn't mean it's underdeveloped.