 By referring to the three continents of South America, Africa, and Asia as "underdeveloped" and in need of significant change to achieve progress, Truman set in motion a reorganization of bureaucracy around thinking and acting to systematically change the "third world".In addition, he argues that Truman's discursive construction was infused with the imperatives of American social reproduction and imperial pretensions.As a result, the development apparatus functioned to support the consolidation of American hegemony.