Fact Drop: Third World

Cold War map of 1st, 2nd and 3rd world countries

Just wanted to share the actual meaning behind "Third World" when referring to another country.  We, the citizens of the U.S., have decided bastardize the meaning as we do many other meanings of words.  It simply refers to countries, that did not align themselves with capitalism (1st world) or communism(2nd world) during the Cold War.  These countries, whom of which decided not to jump on any particular bandwagon were usually were neutral (and had their own financial system already set up).  Now, yes our bastardization of the word does have some substance because many of these countries are impoverished. They include some African nations and some South American (or American) nations as well as a few Asian nations (i.e China Communist).