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Sagifurius@lemm.ee 9 months ago“Third world” just meant Africa, but picked up the “poor” connotation from those ads in the 80s with the starving african children, a “Nimrod” affect.
shottymcb@lemm.ee 9 months ago
If you want to get pedantic about it, 3rd world originally meant countries that didn’t take sides in the cold war. 1st world was US and western European democracies and their client states and allies, 2nd world was USSR and their client states and allies.
3rd world was Africa, India, a lot of SE Asia and some Central/South American countries.
VonReposti@feddit.dk 9 months ago
Fun fact, Finland and Sweden were also third world countries under this definition.
Tum@lemmy.world 9 months ago
and Ireland too!
Sagifurius@lemm.ee 9 months ago
No, that was also a later definition. 1, 2, 3 were new world, old world, Africa.
ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 9 months ago
No, that’s the origin of the term.
Sagifurius@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Fucking read a book dude
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 9 months ago
under neither definition does China fall under third world.
China is not in the African continent and it was (mostly) in the USSR side during the Cold War.