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Amon, Verde and DJ JG were playing a gig in Sacramento, where they shot a video clip for their hard-hitting Spanglish-language tune “Third World Problems” in front of the state Capitol.

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“Civilized people in America don’t eat like this,” he wrote on X. “If you refuse to adopt Western customs, go back to the Third World.”

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Its residents’ lifespans are comparable to people in developing or “Third World” countries.

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He vowed especially to crack down on sanctuary cities across the country to supposedly “reverse the tide of Mass Destruction Migration that has turned once Idyllic Towns into scenes of Third World Dystopia.”

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Many Asian and other Third World countries during the 70s, hungry for jobs for their own locals, began to set up tax-free export processing zones.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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