World: The Third

Memo To People Of Earth: 'Third World' Is An Offensive Term! - NPR

The concept was coined in 1952 by French demographer , who likened the unaligned nations of the Cold War to the "Third Estate" of the French Revolution—the commoners who were neither the clergy nor the nobility. In the original "Three Worlds" model: The Third World

Because many of these unaligned nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America were also former colonies struggling with industrialization, the term quickly became synonymous with the "developing world". 2. The Shift to Economic Stigma Memo To People Of Earth: 'Third World' Is An Offensive Term