why there such called a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY?

Question

isnt it discriminating poor n developing countries?

Answer 1

Third World is a term first coined in 1952 by French demographer Alfred Sauvy to distinguish nations that aligned themselves with neither the West nor with the Soviet Bloc during the Cold War. Today, however, the term is frequently used to denote nations with a low UN Human Development Index (HDI), independent of their political status (meaning that the PRC, Russia and Brazil, all of which were very strongly aligned during the Cold War, are often termed third world). However, there is no objective definition of Third World or "Third World country" and the use of the term remains controversial. Some in academia see it as being out of date, colonialist, mothering and inaccurate; its use has continued, however In general, Third World countries are not as industrialized or technologically advanced as OECD countries, and therefore in academia, the more politically correct term to use is "developing nation".
Terms such as Global South, less wealthy nations, developing countries, least developed countries and the Majority World have become more popular in many circles, due to the derogatory and out of date connotations of describing a 'Third' world. Development workers also call them the two-thirds world (because two-thirds of the world is underdeveloped) and The South. The term Third World is also disliked as it may imply the false notion that those countries are not a part of the global economic system. Some note that the underdevelopment of Africa, Asia and South America during the Cold War was influenced, or even caused by the Cold War economic, political, and military maneuverings of the most powerful nations of the time.
The term Fourth World (as least developed countries) is used by some writers to describe the poorest Third World countries, those which lack industrial infrastructure and the means to build it. More commonly, however, the term is used to describe indigenous peoples or other oppressed minority groups within First World countries

Answer 2

Old World refers to Europe and Asia (cultures and civilizations that existed for a couple of millenia).

New World refers to the Americas (since the Old World didn't know about the New World until its discovery a few hundred years ago).

Third World refers to new and developing nations, but somehow gets associated with poverty-stricken nations.

Answer 3

During the cold war, the west was the first world, the communist bloc was the second world and the rest is the third world..

SO today what we know as the third world is the remanants of cold war country groupes ..

Answer 4

Its not discriminitory to say they are poor and developing. Thats all that it is saying, that they are on the lower end of the spectrum in the UN's Human development Index.

Discriminating would be treating them differently based on the classification, not the existance of the classification itself.

Answer 5

Mexico isn't a third international usa. it really is richer than many ecu international locations, which includes Spain who conquered and looted it. regrettably a lot of that wealth is in the hands of a few, very rich, "white" Mexican elite who do not percentage with some thing else of the overall public of undesirable a lot.