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Meaning of Third World
• Practical definition – poor developing countries
• Has lost some meaning– 1st World – Rich, non-communist market
economies– 2nd World – Communist countries (they have
practically disappeared)– 3rd World – non-communist poor countries
with “immature” economies
A More Realistic Approach
• Developed Countries (formerly 1st World)
• Developing Countries (all the other countries)
• What about the former 2nd World?– They are divided between the two groups –
i.e. the Czech Rep. is in the developed group, whereas Vietnam is in the developing group.
About 50 percent of Guatemala's 11 million people are Indians, who speak 24 indigenous languages.
Some are descended from Some are descended from the Mayathe Maya
99 percent of the population owns 20 percent
of the land.
Copal, resin collected from pine trees in the surrounding mountains, is burned in the Roman Catholic church.
The Cathedral in Mexico City is the largest in Latin America. It took 300 years to build. The Zocalo (plaza) in
front of it is the largest in the world.
In the 19In the 19thth century the Yucatan was an informal century the Yucatan was an informal colony of Chicago’s International Harvester, which colony of Chicago’s International Harvester, which turned theturned the sisal sisal into bailer twine for Midwestern into bailer twine for Midwestern farmers. The planters built wedding-cake mansions farmers. The planters built wedding-cake mansions in Merida and sent their children to schools in New in Merida and sent their children to schools in New Orleans and HavanaOrleans and Havana..
The British established coffee (until 1870s), and later, tea plantations; in 1948 the socialist government nationalized most of these private estates.
The rock fortress of Sigiriya, the Lion Rock was built by King Kashyapa, in the last quarter of the 5th Century to fend off the persistent South Indian invaders.
People climb up the 200-meter precarious metal steps to see the temple dancers painted in the caves 1,500 years ago.