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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