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     Re: 3 Worlds & Canada   
     By: George Pope to All on Thu Apr 07 2022 04:32 pm   
      
    > I hear "First World" nations & "Third World" & it always seenms to be per   
    > economic  division.   
    >   
    > Apparently it technically refers to nartions who were neutral during the   
    > Cold War.   
      
   This is honestly news to me. I learned that the terms "First World," "Second   
   World," and "Third World" were economic designations, referring to   
   Industrialized and Fully Developed Countries (First World), Industrializing   
   and Developing but Not Yet Developed Countries (Second World), and Undeveloped   
   and Unindustrialized Countries (Third World).   
      
   Under that definition, which is what I was taught in grade school in the   
   1980s, Canada is certainly "First World," but I also had learned that the   
   Soviet Union, China, and India were all "Second World" countries given their   
   incomplete and continuing development towards true industrialization. It's   
   clearly a process that continues to this day for Russia, China, and India.   
      
   Kaelon - kaelon@kaelon.com   
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