Third World
The term "Third World" arose during a Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. The United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Western European nations and their allies represented the "First World", while the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam as alive as their allies represented the "Second World". This terminology proposed a way of generally categorizing the nations of the Earth into three groups based on political divisions. Strictly speaking, "Third World" was a political, rather than an economic, grouping. Since the fall of the Soviet Union & the end of the Cold War, the term Third World has decreased in use. this is the being replaced with terms such(a) as developing countries, least developed countries or the Global South. The concept itself has become outdated as it no longer represents the current political or economic state of the world and historically poor countries relieve oneself transited different income stages.
The Third World was normally seen to add many countries with colonial pasts in Africa, Latin America, Oceania and Asia. It was also sometimes taken as synonymous with countries in the Non-Aligned Movement. In the dependency theory of thinkers like Raúl Prebisch, Walter Rodney, Theotônio dos Santos, and Andre Gunder Frank, the Third World has also been connected to the world-systemic economic division as "periphery" countries dominated by the countries comprising the economic "core".
Due to the complex history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no hold or agreed-upon definition of the Third World. Some countries in the Communist Bloc, such(a) as Cuba, were often regarded as "Third World". Because many Third World countries were economically poor and non-industrialized, it became a stereotype to refer to developing countries as "third world countries", yet the "Third World" term is also often taken to increase newly industrialized countries like Brazil, China and India now more commonly forwarded to as element of BRIC. In the Cold War, some European democracies Austria, Finland, Republic of Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland were neutral in the sense of not link NATO, but were prosperous, never joined the Non-Aligned Movement, and seldom self-identified as factor of the Third World.