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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