• Flax
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    111 month ago

    Only two of those countries are in the southern hemisphere

      • Jake Farm
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        111 month ago

        If Russia is part of this “Global South” then you might as well include all of eastern Europe.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 month ago

        The idea of categorizing countries by their economic and developmental status began during the Cold War with the classifications of East and West. The Soviet Union and China represented the East, and the United States and their allies represented the West. The term Third World came into parlance in the second half of the twentieth century. It originated in a 1952 article by Alfred Sauvy entitled “Trois Mondes, Une Planète”.[22] Early definitions of the Third World emphasized its exclusion from the east–west conflict of the Cold War as well as the ex-colonial status and poverty of the peoples it comprised.[22]

        So…

        They wanted to replace 1st, 2nd, and 3rd world to segregate countries based on economys…

        But didn’t want to say that’s what they were doing, so picked a random name that doesn’t make logical sense?

        Yeah, this is definitely a .ml thing

    • Curious Mind OP
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      -101 month ago

      Global south doesn’t refer to the southern hemisphere of the globe…

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          To be fair, it’s a UN definition. Confusing and unintuitive, but not a failure of the OP.

          What’s an issue is that they try to say BRICS==Global South. That’s a big mistakes