• fisch@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    The “3rd world” term is ancient. I learned about it in school, but that was almost 30 years ago and even then, this way of classifying countries was outdated. The world isn’t split in two like this - at least not anymore.

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      6 days ago

      It comes from a time when the world was divided into three. The second world was the socialist bloc.