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Jim Henderson schrieb:
> China might be, The reference I found was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> Second_World
Interesting...
>> 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.
... judging from the Wikipedia articles, that's exactly what it is
/not/, even though at least the term "third world" is commonly used in
Germany synonymously for "developing world" (which is how I have alway
percieved it).
Instead, according to the 'pedia, it is indeed a political division,
more or less precisely defined as capitalist-democratic countries,
communist countries, and all the rest.
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