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Topic Started: 23rd March 2006 - 05:20 AM (543 Views)
Ratphink
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Isn't a third-world country just another way of saying "Undevelopped Country"? I mean... last I checked there was 30 some odd[very rough guesstimation here] Developped Countries and about 150 Undevelopped ones.
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Okay then, no real replies recently, but for Ratphink - do you think that South Korea is a third world country?
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will have to get back to you on this one, but i thought there was some sort of rating system used to determine where a country would be categorised. There were also 2nd world countries, something to do with a bunch of east european countries sometime between WW2 and the cold war or something. The category got defuncted sometime back.

And to me, being 3rd world isn't about hurting more than 1st world. there are some 3rd world that certainly don't hurt as much as some parts of some 1st world countries.

MUTATE: the whole number rating thing came about to refer to the countries during the Cold War. 1st world was the West and its cronies, those we know from the allied forces during WW2. 2nd world was all those aligned to the USSR, including a chunk of east europe. 3rd world was everyone else. With the collapse of the USSR, the 2nd world countries have been dumped off into either of the other 2 categories, and the concept has been used instead to describe development, perhaps a little erroneously.
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