They’re ideological, a hangover from the cold war.
The first world: The US, plus its allies in NATO which were mostly in Western Europe.
The second world: Russia and the USSR, plus its sphere of influence through the Warsaw pact.
The third world: Literally everyone else.
So for example the underdeveloped backwards hellholes of… er, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland were all non-aligned and thus technically “third world” nations.
Fair enough. My point mostly was that for most (older) Western Europeans 3rd world is a synonym for an economic hellhole. Like, Switzerland. Fracking socialists 😤 Wait, that sounds… Wrong…? No? Anyways, it’s not just ‘poor Africans’.
Yep. It’s time people start remembering that those # World groupings were geographical in nature, not economical.
It was about support during WW2.
Yes, and decimate use to mean to destroy one tenth of something.
Definitions change from their original usage.
Close but wrong, it was the alignment during the cold war:
Yes, already edited.
They’re ideological, a hangover from the cold war.
The first world: The US, plus its allies in NATO which were mostly in Western Europe.
The second world: Russia and the USSR, plus its sphere of influence through the Warsaw pact.
The third world: Literally everyone else.
So for example the underdeveloped backwards hellholes of… er, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland were all non-aligned and thus technically “third world” nations.
Fair enough. My point mostly was that for most (older) Western Europeans 3rd world is a synonym for an economic hellhole. Like, Switzerland. Fracking socialists 😤 Wait, that sounds… Wrong…? No? Anyways, it’s not just ‘poor Africans’.
That’s explicitly false.