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That is not what first world means.
by gaius 9y ago
That is not what first world means.
- shaki-dora 9y agoTrue. It means “white”. Which is why it’s largely gone out of fashion.
- gaius 9y agoNot really. In the days of the Cold War there was the “third world” as in “third party”, that is any country who wasn’t in either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Later on people came to use “first world” to mean the West which would make the former Soviet countries the second world. And the third world is still... every other country.