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please stop referring to it as the 3rd World.This classification is outdated(colonialism ended centuries ago), insulting and condescending(trust me no one wants
by quantum_nerd 11y ago
please stop referring to it as the 3rd World.This classification is outdated(colonialism ended centuries ago), insulting and condescending(trust me no one wants to be reminded every day how poor and miserable they are, even if it was true).
Here are a few alternatives for you:
* Developing World ( still patronizing, but a better alternative)
* Majority World ( yea, actually the US and Western Europe are just a small fraction of the global population)
* Middle-Income Economies
* Southern Hemisphere(I see you, Australia!)
* etc.
Please, anything but the 3rd World...
- schoen 11y agoThis classification seems to date to the Cold War rather than to early European colonialism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World (You could still view it as obsolete following the end of the Cold War... just more recently obsolete.)
- dsl 11y agoThe classification is not outdated, and did not originate with colonialism. Being in the "third world" simply means your country elected to not join NATO or the Warsaw Pact, and as a result did not receive the economic stimulus of the Cold War buildup.