• TachyonTele
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    530 days ago

    First and third world countries are specific countries categorized after WWII.

    • @[email protected]
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      1130 days ago

      Specifically third world countries were originally defined as countries neither aligned with NATO or the Soviet Union during the Cold War. So technically this would have included Austria, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland, but generally the term is only used to describe poor and under developed countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

    • @[email protected]
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      230 days ago

      You should look into the history of it a bit, the categories were really always kinda about the skin color