First world problem
As a first world problem ( English 'first world problem', luxury problem ) is a derogatory form of a problem that does not deal with essential and fundamental things.
The term describes problems that the inhabitants of the industrialized nations , the so-called first world , complain about , but which seem insignificant or ridiculous in comparison to much more fundamental problems of securing the livelihood of people in less developed countries of the so-called third world .
The term, which comes from the English-speaking area, was included in the online edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in November 2012 and is increasingly being used as anglicism in the German-speaking area.
The term First World Problems was first used in 1979 in the article Housing: Third World Solutions to First World Problems by Geoffrey K. Payne in the journal Built Environment . From 2005 onwards, the phrase was increasingly used on the Internet as a meme or popular Twitter hashtag in order to explain the triviality of the problem to a complainant.
In German, the expressions "If you have no other worries / problems ..." or "If there are no other problems ..." or "Whining at a high level" are often used.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ See: Third World . In: Matthias Heine: Since when has "geil" nothing to do with sex? 100 German words and their amazing careers . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-455-85149-6 (epub).
- ^ First World problem definition . Oxford University Press. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
- ^ Geoffrey K. Payne: Housing: Third World Solutions to First World Problems . In: Built Environment . Vol. 5, No. 2, January 1979, p. 99 (English). Retrieved September 3, 2017.