Thinking this is more bad history. I was thinking maybe it was a really old map, which would explain why Korea, etc. are still colored red. But if you look closely Germany is unified; there's no west and east germany. Plus Greece is green and Turkey is red, even though they joined NATO at the same time (1952). So I doubt this map is from a textbook or anything, someone probably made it in like 5 minutes just to illustrate a quick point.
It looks like recent borders. USSR is split up, looks like Yugoslavia doesn't exist, and unified Germany.
The US stationed nuclear missiles in Turkey during the Cold War, to which the USSR and Cuba responded. I'm not an expert on Turkey but I'm pretty sure they've always been a pretty staunch NATO ally. At least until recently, with Russia selling aircraft to Turkey I think might complicate that relationship
Yup, greenland is wrong though.
This is where phrases like third world maoist, third world nationalism, etc... come from. It wasn't a bad thing, Sukarno and other leaders were really big on it. They had the view that third world meant the that they were arriving third but they were arriving. Colonialism was ending, they were gonna come up and be equals, etc...
Yeah not so much.
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NATO > Warsaw > Unaffiliated, but because they put NATO first it quickly became a race thing
The map in the OP is clearly racist a pseudoscience thing. Probably made by a nazi weeb because Japan is the only non-white country included in the first world.
if im a citizen of america and czechia does that make me a 1.5 worlder
it's so weird that people still use the term "third world" with like 0 awareness of what it meant.
Today it's used as a way for colonizers to psychologically distance themselves from the suffering that is necessary to maintain their lifestyles
