The Young League Forum

FIRST WORLD       The world is economically cum politically divided or categorized into three namely: the First World, the Second World and the Third World. However, terms like First World, Second World, Third World, or developed nations, developing nations , underdeveloped nations, industrialized nations, imperial nations, metropolitan nations, mother nations, centre nations, periphery nations, capitalist nations, socialist nations, communist nations or countries etc., have dominated contemporary literature in social sciences and have also posed great challenges to average learners of government and political concepts especially on the ideas or rationales behind these classifications. All these classifications are more economical than political. The economic status of any nation determines where she will be classified into whether as a First, Second or Third World.       Hence, the First World is a term used to describe all ...