Starting perhaps around the middle of the last century, when the Cold War between the Western capitalist and Eastern socialist camps was spiraling upward, there came along the notions of roughly “dividing” the countries into three groups.

There were the First World countries, which comprised mainly of old colonial powers of the West, from Europe to America and included even some former colonies such as Australia and New Zealand, with capitalism (some albeit with an element of socialism) as the main stay of their economy and society. There were also the Second World countries, which were mainly those from the Soviet and communist blocs; they were politically and socially no doubt repressive, but also boasted of tremendous industrial and scientific achievements. After all, the Soviets beat the Americans in sending the first astronaut into space.

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