Is China a third world country ?

[COPE2]

it is sad how terrible the canadian school system is. first world is the u.s. and its allies. 2nd world is the communist countries. and 3rd world are neutral.

 

[Ron in Regina]

it is sad how terrible the canadian school system is. first world is the u.s. and its allies. 2nd world is the communist countries. and 3rd world are neutral.

So...only U.S. allies can be First World Countries regardless of their economic standing, or
standard of living, etc...? Interesting...

Have you ever looked up the term, "Second World Country?" Have you ever wondered, even in
hindsight, when you hear the terms "First & Third World Countries," why they skip "Second?"

All "Third World Countries" are "Neutral" in what sense? Just curious...

 

[TenPenny]

After the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the term "First World" took on a new meaning that was more applicable to the times. Since its original definition, the term First World has come to be largely synonymous with developed and/or highly developed countries (depending on which definition is being used).

(from wikipedia)

 

[TenPenny]

In 1952, the French demographer Alfred Sauvy coined the term Third World in reference to the three estates in pre-revolutionary France.[16] The first two estates being the nobility and clergy and everybody else comprising the third estate.[16] He compared the capitalist world (i.e. First World) to the nobility and the communist world (i.e. Second World) to the clergy. Just as the third estate comprised everybody else, Sauvy called the Third World all the countries that were not in this Cold War division, i.e. the unaligned and uninvolved states in the "East-West Conflict."[16][17] With the coining of the term Third World directly, the first two groups came to be known as the "First World" and "Second World," respectively. Here the three world system emerged.[14]

 

[lone wolf]

Sonnufagun.... I always understood there to be Old World (meaning from whence we hailed) New World (meaning this continent we're screwing now) and Third World (meaning they're getting screwed over in ways we're too "civilized" to do)

 

[china]

I,m back in China for past 2 weeks.Don,t care what anyone says .....China is beautiful ......
Feel free again.Have ticket to :canada:-May 23 rd ; don't know if I'll use it ,love Qingdao .
Australia ?......borring .

(google Qingdao):canada:

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

Sonnufagun.... I always understood there to be Old World (meaning from whence we hailed) New World (meaning this continent we're screwing now) and Third World (meaning they're getting screwed over in ways we're too "civilized" to do)

Could you say a bit more on this. I didn't get your last sentence.