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CMV: First World Privilege is a larger problem than White Privilege

Although White Privilege is healthily discussed across the internet, there is little to no acknowledgement of the First World Privilege that is omnipresent in discussion of international issues that involve developing countries. While both types of privilege can influence the dynamics of discourse, First World Privilege is, by definition, more devastating because the ideological evangelicalism it encourages informs bad foreign policy and a significantly larger population is disadvantaged by its existence.

The comfort of life in the First World gives many a false sense of moral and political superiority. We tend to assume that the calculus that goes into another states decision or policy should be more or less the same as our own. The problem is that every state has different sociopolitical circumsances.  In fact, many are not compatible with first world values and causes for cultural/historical reasons. Even putting aside the failed wars and coups that have been launched to propel liberal ideas to prominence in “oppressed” nation states, the criticism of governments that do not meet our standards is often misguided. Progress doesn’t happen over night and we should not hold others to unfair ethical/regulatory standards that we have put in place after functioning in a liberal democratic manner for centuries.

Context is key. In a vacuum, to criticize an international leader like Xi, in China, for an authoritarian action such as his large scale political purge, seems great from a Western vantage point, but in practice things are a lot messier. His anti-corruption campaign is popular. It has repatriated billions in corrupt money that was leaking from the Chinese Government. It also has allowed for new policies that work to combat corrupt practices, making Xi quite popular with the Chinese people.

Those in the developed world that championed the wars in Iraq and supported the Arab Spring were similarly misguided. Although Hussein, Gaddafi, and Mubarak were all detestable for their authoritarian ways, the idea that First World intervention or support for the opposition could make the situation better was laughable at best. In each of these cases, the best of intentions from the involved First World parties left the nations of Iraq, Libya, and Egypt in worse circumstances than before.

In order to have productive conversations regarding international issues, and make better foreign policy decisions, it is imperative that we consciously check our privilege before participating. Nuance is often the diffence between a productive conversation and entrenched polaric mudslinging. By being as conscious of First World Privilege as we are of White Privilege, we can find a more nuanced basis on which to hold debates regarding international issues. 

Edit: Thanks for all of the good discussion. With so many good responses, I will try to respond to all individually as the day goes on.
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>The comfort of life in the First World gives many a false sense of moral and political superiority

Why is this a *false* sense? By basically all relevant metrics, the first world is better than every other civilisation in human history. To me it seems quite clear that most of the things we value in life are made possible by the liberal ideals of the west. Are we arrogant in thinking that the political process which led to such a civilisation should be applied in other, less successful places? 

> Progress doesn’t happen over night and we should not hold others to unfair ethical/regulatory standards that we have put in place after functioning in a liberal democratic manner for centuries.

We should not hold others to our ethical standards? exactly which standards are you talking about? should we exempt poor countries from our "modern" standards of opposing slavery and child labour? or the one about not using chemical weapons on your own population? Ethical standards are not something you can apply selectively.