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by gaius 2984 days ago
That is not what first world means.
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True. It means “white”. Which is why it’s largely gone out of fashion.
Not really.

In the days of the Cold War there was the “third world” as in “third party”, that is any country who wasn’t in either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Later on people came to use “first world” to mean the West which would make the former Soviet countries the second world. And the third world is still... every other country.