Fourth World

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.

See also:

• world
• first world
• second world
• third world
• fifth world

See also: Fourth World, 1970s, 4th World, Comic book, Developing countries, Fifth World, Fifth world, First world, Hopi