tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9788723.post112046294326451279..comments2023-11-05T09:33:45.406+00:00Comments on Shanny`s Day: How many worlds?Ivyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984981877936138387noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9788723.post-1120492382264770582005-07-04T16:53:00.000+01:002005-07-04T16:53:00.000+01:00The phrase comes from French demographer Alfred Sa...The phrase comes from French demographer Alfred Sauvy, who is said to have coined <I>tiers monde</I> in 1952. The archaic <I>tiers</I> is used instead of the modern <I>troisieme</I> to suggest a parallel to <I>tiers etat</I>, the Third Estate, which came into currency during the French Revolution.<BR/><BR/>The Third World is thought to hold a position vis-a-vis the First and Second Worlds (the developed capitalist and Communist countries, respectively) comparable to that of the Third Estate (the commoners) with the First and Second Estates, i.e., the clergy and the nobility.<BR/><BR/>The expression was used at a conference of African and Asian countries in Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955 and was the title of a book published by Sauvy's associates in 1956. It became the title of a journal in 1959 and from there passed into general usage in France. Eventually it made the leap into English.<BR/><BR/>Whether it still makes sense is another matter, particularly with the decline of Communism (the Second World).Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08403853324345062446noreply@blogger.com