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influential non-Western governments of usually colored peoples who have experienced colonialization, are ex-colonized, or have experienced modern capitalism
as a form of imperialism, i.e., those
countries whose cultures have been disrupted by industrialization and expropriation of their natural
resources with little or no concern by the capitalists about the disruption, oppression,
and exploitation of the people or just compensation for their labor or natural resources.
The third world includes those countries of Central and South America, Africa, and Asia as
well as national minorities within the United States - the African Americans, Native
Americans, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Orientals - who have experienced modern
capitalism as a form of imperialism. The first world refers to Western capitalistic
countries of America and Western Europe. The second world referred to the Soviet Union and
its block of countries.
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