what is 3rd world country?

Question

in my hips don't lie they mention "colombia 3rd world country", what is that?

Answer 1

The economically underdeveloped countries of Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Latin America, considered as an entity with common characteristics, such as poverty, high birthrates, and economic dependence on the advanced countries. The French demographer Alfred Sauvy coined the expression ("tiers monde" in French) in 1952 by analogy with the "third estate," the commoners of France before and during the French Revolution-as opposed to priests and nobles, comprising the first and second estates respectively. Like the third estate, wrote Sauvy, the third world is nothing, and it "wants to be something." The term therefore implies that the third world is exploited, much as the third estate was exploited, and that, like the third estate its destiny is a revolutionary one. It conveys as well a second idea, also discussed by Sauvy, that of non-alignment, for the third world belongs neither to the industrialized capitalist world nor to the industrialized Communist bloc. The expression third world was used at the 1955 conference of Afro-Asian countries held in Bandung, Indonesia. In 1956 a group of social scientists associated with Sauvy's National Institute of Demographic Studies, in Paris, published a book called Le Tiers-Monde. Three years later, the French economist Francois Perroux launched a new journal, on problems of underdevelopment, with the same title. By the end of the 1950's the term was frequently employed in the French media to refer to the underdeveloped countries of Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Latin America.

Answer 2

The phrase third world country derives from the previous states of the known world: 1. the old world, essentially the Europe prior to Columbus to which was added ; 2..the New world of the Americas. To this is added the phrase third world meaning new lands not inluded in the above. It has however come to mean any undeveloped land in poor financial status i.e developing country. I hope this is helpful.

Answer 3

OK I saw mbenetx's answer. Now here is the simple correct answer. First world refers to the industrialy developed,democratic,capitalistic countries with a relatively high level of literacy and a large middle class.

Second world used to refer to The communist countries, principally the Soviet Bloque.

Third world was a term used to refer to countries who were not under direct influence politically or economically from either first or second world countries. These were countries with poor wealth distribution and generally low levels of education with dictatorship governments.
Third world is now a rather obsolete term, because the USSR no longer exists, yet the problems in those parts of the world have not gone away.

I liked Shakira when she first came out. She was one of the very few Latin American singers who could sing in tune. Then she sold out, lost her baby-fat and got all scrawny and started acting like a floozy.

For songs I would prefer The Police who said"One World Not Three."

Answer 4

A third world country is a non developed country. It's not industrialized, or has the technology a developed country has. In my oppinion, that's not a politically correct term anymore and the concept should be "developing nation" MOst of these countries are in the south hemisphere and do not have all the resources that countries in the north have.

Answer 5

Developing countries who take away "first world" jobs either by outsourcing or immigration (legal or illegal). Most of the time the people from 3rd world countries are more qualified but paid less compared to their "first world" counterparts.

Examples of these countries are found in South America, Eastern Europe and Asia (Philippines, Laos, Thailand, etc)

Answer 6

a third world country is a country that is way behind in basic developement.., forget all the pollitically correct shyt , were all developing...arent we?? also a third world country is a country that has been left behind and/or abused for thier lack of ability to defend or do anything to better themselves, mostly run by a**holes that wont cuntribute to the better ways of life for all in thier country.., wait??, that sounds a lot like bush?? what a coincidence

Answer 7

Well !
A third world country is a non well-developed one. Not like America, they have debts, they don't have a good health care centers, they can't feed their people, they live in poverty. It is not very surprising that they have no job too. Most developed countries cosider them a parasites

Answer 8

Big mistake by Shakira. This is a derogatory term because no country should be categorized in levels. The correct term: developing nation.

Answer 9

poor country, Well i remember those super power countries promise to lift the third world country for almost a decade now againts poverty but they all B.S.

Answer 10

the term is frequently used to denote nations with a low UN Human Development Index (a comparative measure of poverty, literacy, education, life expectancy, childbirth, and other factors for countries worldwide), independent of their political status.