• LandedGentry@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    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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        3 days ago

        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.