NY Tmes Op-Ed Columnist: How We Are Ruining America

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Even the leader of China confirmed that definition.

In February 1974, Chairman Mao Zedong set forth his strategic thinking of the division of the three worlds. He observed, "In my view, the United States and the Soviet Union belong to the first world. The in-between Japan, Europe and Canada belong to the second world. The third world is very populous. Except Japan, Asia belongs to the third world. So does the whole of Africa and Latin America"

And even Mao is a bit off if one goes by the original definition of First, Second, and Third world:

First World: US and other advanced developed industrialized countries with capitalist/quasi-capitalist economics.

Second World: Soviet Union and fellow Combloc states.

Third World: Everyone else…especially the poor underdeveloped nations of the period.