first world problem

first world problem

English

Alternative forms

• First World problem

Etymology

First World + problem

Noun

first world problem (plural first world problems)

1. A frustration or complaint only experienced by privileged individuals in wealthy countries.
   • 1995, Matthew Good Band (music), “Omissions of the Omen”, in Last of the Ghetto Astronauts:

     Someone would love to have my first world problems / Kill the moon and turn out the sun / Lock your door and load your gun / Free at last now the time has come to choose

   • 2010 April 6, MC Frontalot (music), “First World Problem”, in Zero Day:

     Phone's OS is outta date (first world problem) / Colors won't calibrate (first world problem) / They never stock the snack you want (first world problem) / Caught herpes from a celebutante (first world problem) / Got wallhacked in PVP (first world problem) / Oh no, HD-DVD (first world problem)

   • 2012 February 13, “The 'Top 100 First World Problems' According to Scooter Magruder (Video)”, in Huffington Post‎, retrieved 2012-02-28:

     First world problems are not legitimate problems, but the minuscule annoyances that occur on a day-to-day basis in well-off, developed countries. Low cell phone battery? #firstworldproblems. Your hot water takes a while to get hot? #firstworldproblems.

   • 2012 February 17, Campbell, Jeremy, “'It's a First-World problem'”, in Fox 13 News‎:

     "My brand new phone got scratched on the first day that I got it," said Monica Menkis. That's a First World problem.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:first world problem.

Translations

frustration or complaint

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Cantonese: 第一世界問題, 第一世界问题 (dai6 jat1 sai3 gaai3 man6 tai4) Mandarin: 第一世界問題／第一世界问题 (dìyī shìjiè wèntí) Danish: førsteverdensproblem n Dutch: eerste wereldprobleem n Finnish: kehittyneen maailman ongelma French: please add this translation if you can German: Luxusproblem (de) n Norwegian: Bokmål: i-landsproblem (no) n Nynorsk: i-landsproblem n Portuguese: problema do primeiro mundo m Russian: пробле́ма пе́рвого ми́ра f (probléma pérvovo míra) Spanish: problema del primer mundo m Swedish: i-landsproblem (sv) n

See also

• candy store problem
• champagne problem
• OPP (“other people's problem”)