Fourth World
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Fourth World is a term which is used to denote several completely different things.
- "Fourth World country" is a term used by industrialized countries to denote developing countries with almost no industrial infrastructure, such as many Sub-Saharan African countries (see Least developed countries).
- Fourth World often refers to the indigenous peoples in Third World countries, who are oppressed even within an economically and politcally oppressed nation.
- Fourth World is used to refer to ethnic and minority groups who are not represented by a nation-state; see Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation.
- In the mythology of the Hopi, the current world is the Fourth World, and the coming age is the Fifth World.
- The Fourth World is a mythology-themed superhero comic book series created by Jack Kirby in the early 1970s
- The Fourth World is the debut album for Kara's Flowers
- 4th World was coined by Manuel Castells to refer to black holes of social exclusion.
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