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Um, well, no. Sorry. --KQ |
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Well, now you have! :-) Follow that Google link. I think Lee can tell you what the name for the way the word "first world" was coined... --[[LMS]] |
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What are the First and Second Worlds, then? If the First World was mainly Western Europe and America, was the Second World the Communist bloc or some intermediately industrialized group of countries?
I think that's a problem with the term itself, not with the explanation of it. I've never heard mention of a "first" or "second" world either. --KQ
Oh come on--of course you have heard the term "first world" as in first world nations. --LMS
Um, well, no. Sorry. --KQ
Well, now you have! :-) Follow that Google link. I think Lee can tell you what the name for the way the word "first world" was coined... --LMS