Where is the Second World?

Question

If the First World comprises all technologically advanced capitalist democracies and the Third World are the developing nations, what are where is the Second World?

Answer 1

It was lost after the fall of USSR communism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World

Answer 2

The second world was a term to describe countries with some political power, but behind in Social or technological fronts. I believe the former Soviet Union was a second world country because the people were in severe poverty, and the economy was weak, despite the advanced military and space program. Some other communist countries, like China, were similar. I don't know if the term is valid anymore though.

Answer 3

The Soviet Block (which consists of hardly anything now).

Remember that Spain, Greece, Ireland, Korea, Taiwan, ... were not 1st world at the time this phrase was coined.

But according to your definitions, the answer must be technologically advanced countries that are not capitalist democracies, eg China, Saudi Arabia & all its neighbours big & small

Answer 4

Any countries that are not considered 1st or 3rd are Second World. It is, of course, a very vague term as nations are getting promoted and relegated all the time. But I'd say that Russia and China would be largely second world. Also, Malaysia and Indonisia. It is hard to give an emphatic definition but is largely about economics and technological prowess.

Answer 5

The First, Second and Third Worlds, were coined during the Cold War, the Second World was that of Communism, where there wasn't much money, but just enough to survive on.

Answer 6

The term "Second World" is a phrase that was used to describe the Communist countries within the Soviet Union's sphere of influence. Along with "First World" and "Third World", the term has been used to divide the nations of Earth into three broad categories.

The term has largely fallen out of use because the countries to which it referred mostly abandoned Communism, and their mutual interests, after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

The other two terms remain in widespread use.

Answer 7

An out of date concept.

Third World on the other hand still implies inferiority. This may be true in terms of healthcare, infrastructure etc... but remember the so called Third World or 'under-developed nations' are leaps and bounds ahead of us in terms of other aspects e.g knowledge of nature, spiituality, family/community values....

Answer 8

First world- after the industrial reveloution in their countries
Low child birth mortality
nuclear power
already heavily equipped farming industry
constantly trying to grow and adapt

Second world- their country is in the middle or last stages of the industrial rebveloution in their own country
starting a booming economy
farming well equipped
lowering child mortality rate
major fossil fuel power
road constuction
feeling of hope

third world
high child mortality
farming scattered and done with same as 1500's
little or no power consumtion- fossil fuels or nuclear
little or no paved roads
feeling of needing to survive

because of our time in after the industrial revelution. countries can almost warp through the second world association.
going strait to nuclear power plants and building there economy around them. they can ask forfinancial aid and use it properly and pass through the second world status before anyone calls them second world.

Answer 9

1st World The West, Japan, America, Industris Pacific rim etc.

2nd World Ex Communist Countries, FY countries.

3rd World developing nations

Answer 10

Actually, second world nations are the developing nations (India). Third world means a complete broken-down backwater (Somalia).

Answer 11

Third world isn't developing nations, but rather under-developed nations.
The second word is developing nations.