Meaning of Fourth World | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Collectively, peoples living nomadic, pastoral, hunter-gatherer or other ways of life outside the modern industrial norm.
2. Synonym of Túwaquachi.
3. A notional standard of living or level of development lower than that in the stereotyped Third World.
   attributive, derogatory, informal

Equivalents

Examples

““Three of the deadliest structural collapses in the last 10 years occurred in one county. That’s not even including the other structural failures that were not deadly. One county, dude. This is a third-world government and a fourth-world infrastructure, at the risk of insulting the fourth world.””

“How did it become what we might as well call a fourth world country that happens to possess intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear payloads?”

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