• cmbabul@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    No chance that more than a fourth of them realize it’s from the Cold War and originally mean nations that were neither in the sphere of Soviet or American interest. They just think it means poor country with brown people

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      The Soviets, eastern Europeans, CHYNA, Cuba and North Korea are 2nd world. Odd that they would omit those countries from their rhetoric …

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        Well, as the Warsaw pact doesn’t exist anymore, there are no second world countries.

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            But the alliances don’t, which is where the term came from. If you’re going to get pedantic about it, it’s odd to be so selective.

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        First World: “the west”

        Second World: countries contested by the first and third that routinely had/have their sovereignty violated. Integral to “domino theory.”

        Third World: socialist/communist nations

        Edit: lmao don’t whiskey and lemmy yall. Flipped second and third

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            I wonder who came up with this nomenclature. Certainly wouldn’t be the ones who chose to call themselves ‘first world’ right?

            Glad to see its no longer taken seriously in any sort of academic or intellectual context.