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by gaius 3798 days ago
It's "third world" as in "third party", i.e. everyone who wasn't either NATO or Warsaw Pact. First and second worlds were coined later. It doesn't mean "third class", never did.
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sumedh 3798 days ago
> It doesn't mean "third class", never did.

It does now.

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