| Can we be a little more charitable and stick to the topic? De jure "Third World", would mean that the country is either poor, or developing, possibly industrialized[2], and rightfully such[1]. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=de+jure&oq=de+jure de jure - denoting something or someone that is rightfully such. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World "Because many Third World countries were extremely poor, and non-industrialized, it became a stereotype to refer to poor countries as "third world countries", yet the "Third World" term is also often taken to include newly industrialized countries like Brazil, India and China now more commonly referred to as part of BRIC." "Over the past few decades since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the term Third World has been used interchangeably with the least developed countries, the Global South, and developing countries, but the concept itself has become outdated in recent years as it no longer represents the current political or economic state of the world." |