Any country that owes rolls of money to the IMF and the World Bank.

A term that refers to any “country” that exhibits several (if not all) of the following:

Sandy, hot, full of hate, few (if any) exploitable natural resources, massive election fraud, genocides, outbreaks of diseases you thought were eliminated through massive vaccination projects of the 1950s, and a general complete lack of any semblance of an infrastructure, dictatorships, peoples democratic republic of (insert name here)

A nation does not have to begin in the third world (ie Zimbabwe) but it will usually stay there (ie the rest of them)

A country that has a weak government and is basicly the way it is now because of europe.

Kick-ass reggae band out of Jamaica, their songs include "96 Degrees in the Shade" "Reggae Ambassador" and many more great tunes.

A geopolitical collective of shitholes, holes of shit or other similarly defined nation states filled with, usually human, faecal excrement.

A shithole can improve and become a developing country and then, sometimes, a 'normal' country thus leaving the lowest geopolitical rank of Third World.

A dimension 3X above reality ~

Regarding Central and Eastern Asia and Latin America:

Central Asia was part of the Russian Empire, which essentially makes it a colony.

East Asia, particularly China, is an interesting case study, as it was not divided up into colonies but spheres of influence — areas where nations would have exclusive trading rights. Japan, France, Britain, Germany and Russia all had them, most often centering upon small, prosperous outposts that each nation controlled: the French had Zhangjiang, Britain Hong Kong, Germany Qingdao, Russia Port Arthur, and Japan Taiwan. China was, if we all recall, for centuries the world's most advanced and powerful nation, but a policy of isolationism and "self-containment" at the end of the Ming Dynasty led to stagnation.

It is only in more recent history that Latin America became, in essence, an American sphere of influence. For many years Europe was Latin America's biggest trading partner, a case in point being Britain and Argentina.

Socially and economically, Latin American nations essentially screwed themselves over from the second they became independent: with the exception of Haiti, wealthy Creole aristocrats still controlled most of the land and power, ensuring that for many years their nations' economies relied on th export of raw materials as opposed to industrialization, which they left to entrepreneurialism and foreign investment which built up a heavy debt. The Creoles resented the urban working and middle classes and fought to uphold the status quo for as long as possible. When the trade balance finally shifted to the United States, where there was not as much demand for Argentine beef or Colombian coffee, the Creoles were essentially f*cked and suffered economically as a result, and that suffering continues to this day.

Derived from a time when the communist states were referred to as the second world, the third world is the less economically developed countries that hugely rely on richer countries

Profanity mumbled to oneself when dealing with any form of unefficiency, deception, incompetence, malfunction, desillusion, ignorance, shortage, exasperation or failure.