1995-08-23 - Re: Third World Man
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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@esi.COM.AU>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-08-23 04:39:35 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 21:39:35 PDT
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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@esi.COM.AU>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 21:39:35 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Third World Man
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On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Peter Trei wrote:
> First world: Western (and Westernized) nations
> Second world: Communist bloc
> Third world: The rest, mostly poor nations.
That's pretty much how I learned it in school, back in the 60s. Mind
you, "third world" wasn't an insult then.
I also heard another version: 1st world was Europe/Asia (cuz they were
there first), 2nd world was America (they got discovered later), and 3rd
was everybody else.
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