Orange wrote:
Versatile wrote:
Actually CR is not a Third World country.iirrc
You are right, it's closer to 4th.
Using established parameters Costa Rica is clearly a Third World country. However, considering that China, South Korea and Russia as well as other developed counties are classified Third World the designation is hardly the denigrating description that most associate with the term "Third World". Seeing as how there are no Second World countries anymore and Fourth World countries are almost without industrialization with little chance of developing any the reality is that the gap between first tier Third World Countries and lower tier Third World countries is so broad the term Third World is basically meaningless.
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The First World is the developed world - US, Canada, western Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, etc.. The Second World was the Communist world led by the USSR. With the demise of the USSR and the communist block, there is no longer a Second World. The Third World is the underdeveloped world - agrarian, rural and poor. Many Third World countries have one or two developed cities, but the rest of the country is poor, rural and agrarian. Eastern Europe should probably be considered Third World. Russia should also be considered a Third World country with nuclear weapons. China, has always been considered Third World, and still is. In general, Latin America, including Mexico, Africa, and most of Asia are still considered Third World. The Asian tigers - South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, except for their big cities, their maquiladora-type production facilities, a small middle class and a much smaller ruling elite should probably be considered Third World countries as well, since their populations are overwhelmingly rural, agrarian and poor.
Some of the very poorest countries, especially in Africa, that have no industrialization, are almost entirely agrarian (subsistence farming), and have little or no hope of industrializing and competing in the world "marketplace", are sometimes termed the "Fourth World".
The term "Third World" is not universally accepted. Some prefer other terms such as - the South, non-industrialized countries, underdeveloped countries, undeveloped countries, mal-developed countries, and emerging nations. The term "Third World" is probably the one most widely used in the media today.
No term describes all non-"First World", non-industrialized, non-developed, non -"Western" countries accurately. In comparison, the United States has been categorized as being part of : the West, the First World, the industrialized world, the developed world, the North.
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