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On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:32:43 +0100, clipka wrote:
> Jim Henderson schrieb:
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>>>> Would be an interesting twist: First world being thrown back behind
>>>> the third world...
>>> Where the hell is the *second* world, anyway??
>>
>> The USSR member nations and their allies, IIRC.
>
> Yes, I guess so (except that it's no longer USSR anymore). China, too, I
> think.
China might be, The reference I found was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Second_World
> As a random guess, I'd say Latin America might mostly fall in that
> category, too.
Nope, that's counted as third world according to the reference page.
> India? Pakistan?
Also third world.
> I guess the boundaries have also shifted since the term was coined.
Very possibly - it's an economic delimiter, and could well have changed.
I note that Cuba (I'm guessing from the picture) is in the 2nd world as
well.
Jim
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