This word is actually banned, you know, censored from our indoctrination centers which most of you know as public school or university.
Backward country: banned as ethnocentric when referring to cultural differences [Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley, Multicultural Guidelines, 1996, Fairness Report for the ACT Assessment Tests, 1999-200 (ACT, 2000)].
Political Correctness is censorship (not to mention bullshit), it needs to stop.