Thread: The Differance between a First, Second & Third World Cou

The point I am trying to make is that we are no longer a first world country but a second world country ... the path our politicians are taking us will rapidly take us into third world status

The Differance between a First, Second & Third World Country

First World
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First (blue), Second (red), and the Third World (green) countries during the Cold War era. Sometimes Argentina, Uruguay and South Africa were included before 1959-62.

The term "first world" refers to countries that are capitalist, which are technologically advanced, and whose citizens have a high standard of living.[citation needed]

The terms First World, Second World, and Third World were used to divide the nations of Earth into three broad categories. The three terms did not arise simultaneously. After World War II, people began to speak of the NATO and Warsaw Pact countries as two major blocs, often using such terms as the "Western Bloc" and the "Eastern Bloc". The two "worlds" were not numbered. It was eventually pointed out that there were a great many countries that fit into neither category, and in 1952 French demographer Alfred Sauvy coined the term "Third World" to describe this latter group; retroactively, the first two groups came to be known as the "First World" and "Second World".

There were a number of countries that did not fit comfortably into this neat definition of partition, including Switzerland, Sweden, and the Republic of Ireland, who chose to be neutral. Finland was under the Soviet Union's sphere of influence but was not communist, nor was it a member of the Warsaw Pact. Yugoslavia adopted a policy of neutrality, and was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement. Austria was under the United States' sphere of influence, but in 1955, when the country became a fully independent republic, it did so under the condition that it remain neutral. Turkey and Greece, both of which joined NATO in 1952, were not predominantly in Western Europe. Spain did not join NATO until 1982, towards the end of the Cold War and after the death of the authoritarian dictator Francisco Franco.

In recent years, as many "developing" countries have industrialized, the term Fourth World has been coined to refer to countries that remain predominantly agricultural or nomadic and lack industrial infrastructure. In contrast, countries that were previously considered developing countries and that now have a more developed economy, yet are not fully developed, are grouped under the term Newly-industrialized countries or NIC. Some nations have developed their own classification scheme consisting of the "Third World" and the "Two-Thirds World". This system is similar to the former in that it also reflects economic status or behaviour. In terms of material resources, the "Third World" consumes one third, while the "Two-Thirds World" consumes two-thirds of the resources.

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And this is what our children doing research on the net are supposed to read? Who wrote this stuff?

Second World
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The term "Second World" is a phrase that was used to describe the Communist states within the Soviet Union's sphere of influence.[citation needed] Along with "First World" and "Third World", the term has been used to divide the nations of Earth into three broad categories. The term has largely fallen out of use since the end of the Cold War. The other two 'worlds' are still widely talked about, although "First World" is now deprecated for the more politically correct "developed country" and "Third World" has been replaced with "developing country". Many "Second World" countries are now considered part of the "First World". These countries include Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia


[edit] History
The three terms did not arise simultaneously. After World War II, people began to speak of the NATO and Warsaw Pact countries as two major blocs, often using such terms as the "Western bloc" and the "Eastern bloc". The two "worlds" were not numbered. It was eventually pointed out that there were a great many countries that fit into neither category, and in 1952 French demographer Alfred Sauvy coined the term "Third World" to describe these countries; retroactively, the first two groups came to be known as the "First World" and "Second World".


[edit] Definition
The term was used to refer to nations within the Soviet Union's sphere of influence, e.g. the Warsaw Pact countries, as well as farther-flung Soviet Allies such as Cuba and North Vietnam.[citation needed] Besides the Soviet Union proper, most of Eastern Europe was run by satellite governments working closely with Moscow. The term "Second World" may or may not also refer to Communist countries whose leadership were at odds with Moscow after the Sino-Soviet split, such as Albania. After the split with Soviet Union, China considers itself a Third World country. North Korea pursues an isolationist policy that even distances itself from both China and Soviet Union, thus it is also sometimes considered Third World. There were a number of countries which did not fit comfortably into this neat partitioning of the world, including Switzerland, Sweden, Yugoslavia, and the Republic of Ireland, who all chose to remain neutral. Finland was under the Soviet Union's sphere of influence but was not communist, nor was it a member of the Warsaw Pact. Austria was within the United States' sphere of influence, but in 1955, when it became a fully independent republic, it did so under the condition that it remain neutral. Yugoslavia, a socialist southeast European country, was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement. Albania was a communist east European country which withdrew from the Warsaw Pact over ideological differences in 1968 and had stopped supporting the Pact as early as 1962.

Alternatively, First World countries may be defined as having developed market economies, Second World as having developed planned economies, and Third World as having developing economies that may follow either the market or the planned model. The fall of communism and the end of most planned economics has also made this distinction largely moot.

Additionally, the term is often used incorrectly, to describe a moderately developed country. This is most likely based on the misconception that the First World refers to the developed world, the Third World the developing world, and thus the Second World is an intermediate level between the two. To help with this problem, a newer term, Fourth World, was coined to refer to only the most impoverished nations, to distinguish more developed "third world" nations from completely undeveloped "third world" nations. However, the "Fourth World" is also used as a term for nations without their own countries, such as the Kurds and the Palestinians.

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Third World
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For the association of Anglican provinces , see Global South (Anglican).
Third World is a name given to nations that are generally considered to be underdeveloped economically during the 20th century. The name Third World arose during the Cold War to refer to nations that did not belong to the First and Second Worlds[citation needed]. While there is debate over the appropriateness of the term, and no alternative is without detractors, the term is one embraced by many Third World nations themselves, particularly in the Non-Aligned Movement.



The economist and demographer Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine L'Observateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term Third World in referring to countries currently called either "developing" or "under-developed", especially in Latin America, Africa, Oceania, and Asia, that were unaligned with either the Communist Soviet bloc or the Capitalist NATO bloc during the Cold War (1945–1989).[1].

Third World was a reference to the Troisieme État, the Third Estate, the commoners of France before and during the French Revolution, opposed to the priests and nobles who composed the First Estate and the Second Estate. Like the third estate, wrote Sauvy, the Third World has nothing, and "wants to be something", implying that the Third World is exploited (as was the third estate) and that its destiny is revolutionary. Moreover, it conveyed the second concept of political non-alignment with neither the industrialized Capitalist bloc nor the industrialized Communist bloc.


[edit] Definition
In academic circles, the countries of the Third World are known as the "Global South", the "developing countries", and the "under-developed countries". Economic development workers refer to these nations as the "Two-thirds World" and "The South". Some developers disapprove of the "developing countries" term because the term implies that industrialization is progressive[1].[citation needed]


[edit] History
The term "third world" was first intended to refer to the way those countries were discovered and because most of them were born as colonies of more powerful nations before they became independent nations. The term later on became popular as a way to denominate countries that are still in the process of developing. In the colonial era, western imperialists exploited these countries. Once imperialism ended, these countries were left to take care of themselves, something most colonial powers never allowed. These countries were left to face the challenges of nation and state-building on their own for the first time.

As European colonies in Africa, Asia, Americas, and Oceania gained their independence they commonly experienced widespread poverty, high birthrates, and economic dependence upon their former colonial masters. After World War II, the capitalist Western and the communist Eastern blocs fought to expand their spheres of influence to the Third World. The military and intelligence services of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. worked secretly and publicly to influence Third World governments, with relative success.

The term Third World became popular usage during the Cold War when many poor nations adopted it in describing themselves as aligned with neither N.A.T.O. nor the U.S.S.R., but instead composed an unaligned Third World. In that context, the First World denoted the U.S. and its anti-Communist allies, concomitantly, Second World denoted the "Eastern Bloc" — the U.S.S.R. and its communist and socialist allies.

For the most part, Third World did not include China. Politically, the Third World emerged at the Bandung Conference (1955), which established the Non-Aligned Movement. Numerically, the Third World dominates the United Nations, but is so culturally and economically diverse that its political cohesion is hypothetical, as most Third World nations in Euroasia and Latin America have rich, growing and prosperous economies. The petroleum-rich countries (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, etc.) and the new industrial countries (India, China, Malaysia, Philippines, Brazil, Mexico etc.) as well as the rapidly growing countries such as (Costa Rica, Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Russia, Panama etc.) have little if anything in common with poor countries (Haiti, Chad, Afghanistan, etc.).

In 1972, China's Chairman Mao gave another definition of three worlds. In his definition, super power dual US and USSR belong to the first world because of their great impact on the world affairs. Western Europe, Japan, Australia, and Canada belong to the second world. Other countries in Africa, the Americas, and Asia (including China) belong to the third world.


[edit] See also
Majority World
First World
Second World
Fourth World
List of countries and territories by fertility rate
Developing country
Human Development Index
List of countries by Human Development Index
Third Worldism

[edit] Further reading
A. R. Kasdan, The Third World: A New Focus for Development. (1973)
E. Hermassi, The Third World Reassessed. (1980)
H. A. Reitsma and J. M. Kleinpenning, The Third World in Perspective. (1985)
J. Cole, Development and Underdevelopment. (1987)
Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. (1992)
A. Escobar, Encountering Development. The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. (1995)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_world_country

The point I am trying to make is that we are no longer a first world country but a second world country ... the path our politicians are taking us will rapidly take us into third world status

Thanks AirborneSapper7 for the clarification. What else should we consider this country but just like the fall of the Roman Empire? Perhaps, just to save face we should declare ourselves a sixth world nation, one whose arrogant leaders sold or leased everything they possibly could, outsourced jobs and expected the population to be confident, already overrun with illegals sending money to their home countries. Americans need to be happy with a $600 tax rebate. We have trillions in debt (no problem cause Treasury keeps printing money) that our grandchildren and generations after will have to clean up. I could go on but my point is that in all my reading of history I have never seen anything like this.

Hi Airborne Sapper

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

The point I am trying to make is that we are no longer a first world country but a second world country ... the path our politicians are taking us will rapidly take us into third world status

Well, we drop to the lowest common denominator, under the North American Union, that of Mexico.

The amazing thing, Airborne Sapper 7, is that Canadians, who ought to know better, have their heads in the sand by ignoring this very threat to their homeland! Any Canadians out there reading this website? Are you smoked by the mainstream media? Shame on you (for doing nothing)!
And shame on those of us to elected 2 identical anti-American Illuminati leftists

The H-1B handlers, on their giant websites, discuss wage equalization - global wage equalization.
What WAGE EQUALIZATION really means is that wages level out and drop to the lowest common denominator - that of the untouchables of India's Hindu Caste System[/b]


Errata, the above chart is outdated - today's figure is around 38 million illegals.
http://earthhopenetwork.net/forum/forum ... php?fid=40


Hussein Obama says there's no evidence of the NAU.
http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=6163

I've had it with Corrupt Freaks of Nature called Politicians that are HELL Bent on Collapsing the USA..... It's time for the TEA PArty and put these people on Trial in Front of the American Public

The article is correct. The term originated as a political definition during the Cold War. The First World were generally capitalist democracies, the Second World communist dictatorships, and the Third World was non-aligned. The fight during the Cold War was mainly over the non-aligned countries in the Third World. After the Cold War ended, the term took on a more economic flavor, with First World describing industrialized, developed countries, Third world being undeveloped, poverty stricken countries (typically with no middle-class), and Second World disapearing from the dialogue -- now designated as "Former Communist Countries." All designations are currently being erased with globalism, immigration, and free trade. Economies are merging, borders are being erased, sovereigny is being undermined, until we do not have "First World or Third World"....we are trending economically and politically toward One World.

Any moderator,
Why was my message thread about Obama being constitutionally ineligible for the presidency deleted? Was I being too disrespectful of the next president? Do I have an attitude problem?
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