What does a "3rd World country" mean?! o.o''?

Question

>;l A lot of people have been asking if the United States will become a 3rd world contry, what does this mean.

MMkthnx in Advance.

Answer 1

A third world country is one without the provisions and infrastructure of a country like the U.S. or Western Europe. It's still very low on the level of development and often doesn't have running water, electricity, good roads, etc. Some countries are not quite third world, like India and Mexico. But they are often referred to as "developing" countries.

Yes. The U.S. is in danger of that. Not extremely soon but eventually. All great empires eventually fall, especially with poor leadership and the environmental issues that the entire world will face in the future.

Answer 2

Third World


the technologically less advanced, or developing, nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, generally characterized as poor, having economies distorted by their dependence on the export of primary products to the developed countries in return for finished products. These nations also tend to have high rates of illiteracy, disease, and population growth and unstable governments. The term Third World was originally intended to distinguish the nonaligned nations that gained independence from colonial rule beginning after World War II from the Western nations and from those that formed the former Eastern bloc, and sometimes more specifically from the United States and from the former Soviet Union (the first and second worlds, respectively). For the most part the term has not included China. Politically, the Third World emerged at the Bandung Conference (1955), which resulted in the establishment of the Nonaligned Movement. Numerically, the Third World dominates the United Nations, but the group is diverse culturally and increasingly economically, and its unity is only hypothetical. The oil-rich nations, such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Libya, and the newly emerged industrial states, such as Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore, have little in common with desperately poor nations, such as Haiti, Chad, and Afghanistan.

Answer 3

As with most things on today's world, affiliation with others of like thinking, economical power or political mind frame is a desirable thing to do. So usually if I like to listen to rock music, I try to affiliate with those who like the same type of music. If I like democracy, I associate with those who also like democracy and so on.

In the area of world politics some countries affiliate with other countries that believe in democracy and others with countries that believe in socialism or communism. Yet, some countries do not affiliate with either camp, and for the most part live in isolation from the rest of the world. These countries are considered third world countries.

Because of their isolationist mind frame, many of these countries lack the resources to provide an atmosphere where its citizens can grow and develop. So often time this third world countries are very poor, uneducated and have low health standards that result a low life expectancy.

Will the United States become a third world country? I do not think so. Because we are a country that typically frowns on isolationism, we will more than likely develop or will have developed relationships with other countries that are beneficial to our economy and our growth.

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Answer 4

A 3rd world country is one that has a low GDP and low per capita income. It's basically a country that's still developing - i.e. the newest technology isn't available to most people. It might have a poor infrastructure with a poor road system, and most people are poor. The U.S. will not become a 3rd world country. Countries usually don't move backward, they progress up from being "3rd world."

Answer 5

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, othering and inaccurate; its use has continued, however [1] 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".

Answer 6

It means that the quality of life drops to where folks are just trying to scrape by to even survive. Food is scarce, money is even scarcer. Imagine the US during the great depression.. and magnify the scenes of poverty and fear times 1,000. Can it happen? Sure... anything is possible. A total government and human consciousness collapse would be needed, but it's not unheard of. To put in a perspective based off of the commercials that Sally Struthers used to be in every week begging for money... it's the kind of place where livestock unirate in the drainage trough running down the middle of the main-street path in the town... where kids play in the water not 5 feet away.

Answer 7

ok now the thing is I don't know about US but as far as my knowledge goes by 3rd world countries we mean those countries who are falling behind the developed and developing countries in every asspect specially economially,politically,healthcare and over all developments of the person

Answer 8

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, othering and inaccurate; its use has continued, however [1] 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. (See Emerging markets)

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.

U.S.A. has a far way to go in become Third World - their economy is suppose to be so bad, et al.

Lets compare to see what a first world country is:

The subjective terms First World, Second World, and Third World were used to divide the nations of Earth into three broad categories. The three terms did not arise simultaneously. After World War II, people began to speak of the NATO and Warsaw Pact countries as two major blocs, often using such terms as the "Western bloc" and the "Eastern bloc." The two "worlds" were not numbered. It was eventually pointed out that there were a great many countries that fit into neither category, and in the 1950s this latter group came to be called the Third World. (see Third World for a fuller treatment of the history of the terms).

Eventually, nations within the Western European and United States' sphere of influence (e.g., the NATO countries) came to be called (unofficially) the First World. Besides North America (USA and Canada) and Western Europe, the First World also included other industrialized capitalist countries such as Japan and some of the former British colonies, particularly Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

There were a number of countries that did not fit comfortably into this neat definition of partition, including Switzerland, Sweden, and the Republic of Ireland, who chose to be neutral. Finland was under the Soviet Union's sphere of influence but was not communist, nor was it a member of the Warsaw Pact. Austria was under the United States' sphere of influence, but in 1955, when the country became a fully independent republic, it did so under the influence that it remain neutral. Turkey, which joined NATO in 1952, was not predominantly in Western Europe and was not industrialized. Spain did not join NATO until 1982, towards the end of the Cold War and after the death of the authoritarian dictator Francisco Franco.

In modern usage, after the end of the Cold War, the term First World has come to denote the 'developed' Industrialized-Capitalistic nations that in 2000 had a higher GDP per capita than $15,000, as stated by the World Bank. This would include the United States, Canada, Japan, the countries of the European Union (Including Norway and Switzerland) (in 2000), Singapore, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea. Additionally, Hong Kong and Taiwan may be described in these terms but they are exceptions as these territories are not recognised as having sovereign status by the UN and thus do not possess particular characteristics representative of a country. The World Bank also denotes these as "High Income Economies."[1]

In recent years, as many "developing" countries have industrialized, the term Fourth World has been coined to refer to countries that have "lagged behind" and still "lack" industrial infrastructure. However, these are completely subjective terms describing the perspective of economically dominant white people. Ironically, many self-named "developed" or "First World" nations are in fact "lagging behind" in terms of culture, peace and sustainability. Moreoever, they often "lack" adequate cultural and ecological knowledge/wisdom of their own nation to survive beyond their current heyday era of natural resources exploitation.

Recognizing the debasing nature of this heirarchical classification system that ranks people of colored and aboriginal nations behind others, some nations have developed their own classification scheme consisting of the "Third World," and the "Two-Thirds World." This system is similar to the former in that it also reflects economic status or behaviour. In terms of material resources, the "Third World" takes just one third of the pie, while the "Two-Thirds World" unjustifiably takes two-thirds of the pie.

Answer 9

well, current "third world" mean underdevolped, poor, screwed, (u get the idea, im sure..) in somewhere in the world.. eg.. indinisioana (boxing day tidal wave place?) (i suck at spelling in countries.. lol)

Answer 10

its just a developing country(undeveloped).