• masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 天前

      How do we determine what 3rd world is?

      You don’t speak right-wing? I’ll translate - “3rd world” means anything that isn’t white.

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        Specifically third world countries were originally defined as countries neither aligned with NATO or the Soviet Union during the Cold War. So technically this would have included Austria, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland, but generally the term is only used to describe poor and under developed countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.