What makes a country first world? Hamburgers? Ipads? no war? minimal crime?
https://www.google.ca/search?q=first+world&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=EeMyV6XCD9awjwPs6aawBg
Ignorance and greed OP. Ignorance and greed.
>>73673011
Second world nations were sided with the Russians.
Third world nations were not involved.
Its cold war terminology.
>>73673152
Russia was heavily involved in Africa but they're still third-world
>>73673011
calling the shots, leading progress and innovation
>>73674921
>Turkey
>First world
They were on the winning side of the cold war.
>>73673011
>What makes a country first world?
Well, if we're discussing this seriously, we don't use that terminology anymore, because there's no "second world" anymore. These are the terms from the Cold War.
So, back during the Cold War, the "first world" was all the countries that were democratic and capitalist.
"Second world" were the communist countries. "Third world" were the poorer countries that seemed to be eternally fucked.
We now use "Developed" and "Developing" countries, which just determines the level of things like: How high is their child mortality? How good is their infrastructure? What level of public sector corruption is there?
Things like that.
I mean, people still use the "First", "Second" and "Third World" in conversation, but it is indeed obsolete since the Soviet Bloc doesn't exist anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World
>>73674921
Something Turkey clearly isn't.
>>73673011
Nuclear technology and capitalist tendencies. 2nd is Nuclear technology and socialist/communist tendencies.
3rd world is not Nuclear.
>>73673205
Involved isn't good enough, we're talking actual political alliances with stable countries. Puppets both sides dicked around with don't count.
>>73673152
>Third world nations were not involved.
I think you're mistaking "Third World" with the "Non-Aligned Movement", which also sided with Russia slightly.
