What is YOUR definition of the "Third World" or a "Third World Country"?

[Ruggery]

Originally, a third world country is one that was too poor to be on either side of the Cold War.

My definition of Third World is as follows:

1. Any country that is either black or brown.

2. Countries without complex economy, even rich countries where oil is 99% of the exports are third world.

3. Countries where there is widespread poverty, corruption and usually some kind of war going on.

4. Countries where people live in their own filth, where there is no government but groups or factions running the country.

5. Countries which literally have 1/3 - 1/2 of the population living in shacks with no heating and a job that doesn't pay over 2 bucks a day.

6. When the government refuses to provide transparency, and then attacks the credibility of its critics to justify doing so.

7. Receives countless money to develop their countries with some of the latest technology.

8. High crime, low trust, no efficiency.

9. Average person makes like two dollars a day. Meaning even if they paid 50% of their income in taxes they'd give the government $350 a year.

10. Countries where foreign corporations keep the profits made of their resources.

11. Leader pays himself a lot out of the treasury. Receiving cuts of drugs/arms/human trafficking. Money from allowing mineral mining.

12. No basic infrastructure, wooden scaffolding, malnutrition, no fixed rules on the road, extortion at every opportunity, children at school drinking from dirty taps whilst the teacher's lawn was watered with sprinklers.

Do you think Israel is first world meets most of your points?

[Defcon2]

My definition of Third World is as follows:

1. Any country that is either black or brown.

That's enough, the rest of the things are left over.

[Teutone]

Countries where men are men and women are women.
Countries that dont waste any second to think about nonsense like climate change, gender studies, veganism, atheism or transkids.

Ergo morally superior nations.

[Westbrook]

This is a pretty good indicator of where civilization can be found

[Zeno]

Any country that can't even provide basic goods to its populus, and is thus plagued by starvation.

Any country with vast inequalities in income, where the tiny elite gets profits on the cost of the entire rest of the population, which lives with less than $1 per day.

Any country that is plagued by a unsanitary environment, thus enalbling infectious disease outbreaks every 5 years or so.

Any country with minimal or zero literacy.

And, finally, basically any non-European country, apart from notable exceptions.

[Mejgusu]

This is a pretty good indicator of where civilization can be found

Civilization is a matter of definition, this map shows at most the degree of the development of a country. And this is changing among many of them, into a positive and negative shift.

[Teutone]

I will laugh my ass off when the wealthiest and most influential nations will be based in the asia-pacific regions.
Well deserved.

Meanwhile Europe a continent with joke natural resources, highly regulated and non competitive markets, crippling eco fantasies, continuously lower quantity and quality of human resources, welfare insanity combined with more or less open borders, no foot in high tech technologies, a joke of a hippie Space Agency, will be the 2nd world in our lifetime.
People thinking we can afford starting a basic income and cut working hours and the asians will follow the insanity instead of working even harder.

Keep smoking weed and trade bitcoins instead of getting a job fellas.

Survival of the fittest, only the strong survive.

[Jana]

In Europe, countries like Ukraine and Kosovo. Outside of Europe, most of Africa and some LatAm and Asian nations.

[Tutankhamun]

Countries with low HDI, that is, these countries here.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_developed_countries

[Tooting Carmen]

I will laugh my ass off when the wealthiest and most influential nations will be based in the asia-pacific regions.
Well deserved.

Meanwhile Europe a continent with joke natural resources, highly regulated and non competitive markets, crippling eco fantasies, continuously lower quantity and quality of human resources, welfare insanity combined with more or less open borders, no foot in high tech technologies, a joke of a hippie Space Agency, will be the 2nd world in our lifetime.
People thinking we can afford starting a basic income and cut working hours and the asians will follow the insanity instead of working even harder.

Keep smoking weed and trade bitcoins instead of getting a job fellas.

Survival of the fittest, only the strong survive.

Yes and no. Compared to the West, Asia-Pacific is still well behind when it comes to "soft power" - virtually no one speaks their languages outside those countries (not even Mandarin), and aside from JPop, KPop and Anime, they still have a limited presence globally when it comes to music, television, film and (relative to their numbers) sport.