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lovelylad | 10:51 Wed 23rd Jan 2002 | Phrases & Sayings
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What's the 2nd world?
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This has come from a misunderstanding in what the Third World means. It actually refers to the fraction, ie a third of the world lives in these conditions of poverty. The French term is Tiers-Monde (tiers = one-third) rather than troisi�me (ordinal number third) and this has been mistranslated.
11:23 Wed 23rd Jan 2002
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Some books do refer to the 2nd world being communist countries.
13:49 Thu 27th Jun 2002
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Yes, 2nd world nation-states are commonly referred as the previoust soviet blocs which had "backwards economies." They didn't live in destitution, but also not in the first-rate living of the first world.
04:52 Fri 30th Aug 2002
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Europe is the First World, The Americas are the New World, and the Third world is the rest of the globe, especially poor countries.
13:41 Mon 30th Jun 2003

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