Original sentence: In general, Third World countries are not as industrialized or technologically advanced as OECD countries, and consequently developing nation is the current term in use in academia
Edited sentence: " Most of these terms, third world, developing nations, and so forth, are euphemisms to varying degrees.Carrying the conotation that poor countries (destitute in many instances) can be denied by referring to a presumptive future of prosperty.In general, Third World countries are not as industrialized or technologically advanced as OECD countries, and consequently developing nation is the current term in use in academia, although this term has its own inherent bias stemming from denial of poverty.No one talks about the "poor and starving.Perhaps "poor countries" would be the most accurately discriptive, but academia has its own tendency to create terminology devoid of humanity--sanitized.Terminology is everything in propaganda.The term "developing" is ideology in denial of the existing abject poverty.The term "third-world" is not ideal but is not a referent to future good times.This is a particularly insidious piece of propaganda in denial of exploitation of the poor