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Understanding First, Second, and Third World Concepts by Graceal Lumbres is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document describes the historical concepts of the "First World", "Second World", and "Third World". The First World originally referred to developed, democratic Western nations aligned with the United States against the Soviet Union. The Second World was the Soviet Union and communist Eastern Europe. The Third World encompassed nonaligned and underdeveloped nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America suffering from poverty while only small elites benefited from colonial influence.
- Author
- Graceal Lumbres
- Language
- EN