Citations:Turd World

English citations of Turd World

• 1972, Books and Bookmen, Volume 18, page 116:

  ... the dark continent and which has been referred to by Liam Ryan as the turd world.

• 1979, Frank Jewett Mather, Frederic Fairchild Sherman, Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, Art in America, Volume 67, page 39:

  ... comes to Calcutta for the first time and, after a long look around, says, "Now I know why they call it the turd world."

• 1982, Asiaweek Limited, Asiaweek, Volume 8, page 49:

  For him the quintessential India is an old man squatting to defecate beside the track, butt to the world, umbrella to ward off the sun, the very embodiment of what Theroux calls "the Turd World."

• 1999, Ishmael Reed, The Terrible Threes, page 30:

  O, boss, why should you worry about dat? It's just a Turd World trick to embarrass you.

• 2000, Elaine Yee Lin Ho, Timothy Mo, page 30:

  Third World becomes 'Turd World' in the novel's irrepresible scatology.

• 2002 November 9, Joe User, “World's first attempt to keep out illegal aliens.”, in alt.org.audubon‎^[1] (Usenet):

  It has nothing to do with race, has to do with ethnicisity, there is a
  difference. The peoples of the turd world are dismal failures, their
  culture promoted reproducing to the point the environment can not
  sustain them at comfortable levels, the price of that historically has
  been death. It just so happens that the majority of the third world
  is non-white.

• 2003 January 5, Michael Savage, The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture‎^[2], Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57:

  You are part of the social system that they say oppresses and abuses Turd World nations.

• 2004, Pittu Laungani, Asian Perspectives in Counselling and Psychotherapy, page 30:

  Even the phrase 'Third World' was maliciously referred to as 'turd world' by those who were opposed to any form of migration into Britain.

• 2008, Kirin Narayan, My Family and Other Saints, page 209:

  Many of these big hotels channeled their sewage straight into the sea; Paw shrugged: "After all, its the Turd World, what can you expect?"

• 2010, Elliott Oring, Engaging Humor, page 44:

  Puns such as "Jewspaper," "Jewsmedia," "Jewnited States," "Latrino," and "Turd world" regularly appear and reflect WAR's oft-stated view that Jews control government and the media and that Latinos and other "mud-people" pollute the race, culture and environment.

• 2011, Leslie Bow, Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion, Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature, page 150:

  In its resistance to using to using experience to mobilize for change, the novel foregrounds the ineffectivness of coalitional democratic representation for influencing diplomatic policies in the "Turd World."

• 2012, J. M. Porup, The United States of Air, a Satire, page 136:

  Every minute that ticked by without Fatso in custody meant another poor child in the Turd World was pinching off a loaf, when they could be eating air.

• 2013 December 17, Caren Irr, Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century (Literature Now)‎^[3], Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 77:

  In The Volunteer, no drama is provided by the tedium of daily labor or the struggle to wrest a livelihood from a damaged habitat in what is called throughout the novel the “turd world.” The developing world is excrementitious for Coleman's supposedly ironic protagonist because he has experienced an ego-shattering loss that makes him feel that his own life has been wasted.

• 2014, Rachel Lee (editor), The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature, page 247:

  In the space of a "Turd World" prison, Tango writes her love story, awaiting an uncertain sentence and possible death.

• 2015, Ludovic Kennedy, A Book of Railway Journeys:

  Indeed, he seemed the perfect symbol for what a man in Delhi had called "The Turd World."

• 2016, Daniel Diprinzio, The Great Stone Robbery, page 133:

  Not to mention the slew of puerile nicknames Jake had for Rob, like Winnie the Poo, Turd World Country, (or Refugee), Poop Nukem, Crappy Ending Message, and so on and so forth.

• 2017, Elizabeth Martínez, De Colores Means All of Us, Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century, page 31:

  Opposition to multiculturalism can still be heard in attacks on the "mud people" and we can still read campus newspaper letters like the one from tenured economics professor Ernest Bucholz (now retired) at Santa Monica College opposing multiculturalism because it promotes the "Turd-World".

• 2018, Paul Vlitos, Eating and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction Consuming Passions, Unpalatable Truths, page 31:

  'What a tip! Talk about the Turd World!' comments one Australian character on arrival in the Philippines.

• 2019, R. Zamora Linmark, The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart, page 9:

  That only happens during election, and only if the current leader is seeking reelection. We're very Turd World that way.

• 2020, Damien Broderick, The Dreaming:

  "A tissue of lies." "Wipe the opposition." "Support the Turd World." "Sounds like fecism."

• 2023, Phil Clarke, Falling Night:

  He was a real visionary, you know, and did so much for this ungrateful turd world country.