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29 Cards in this Set
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third world initially meant
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politically nonaligned
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non-communist countries such as the US, European countries, Japan, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand qualified as
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"first world"
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The Soviet Union and its satellites in easter Europe were
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"second world"
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Why was the term "third world" bad.
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It just lumped together a bunch of groups based on their poverty
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most of humanit remains
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relatively poor
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most poor people no longer
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have to worry about starvation though
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poverty is best defined as
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relative deprivation
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in the 21st century, people can be more violent because
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they feel that the middle and upper classes have gained a great deal more from the recent prosperity
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When one has has little material security
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one is more likely to feel threatened by competition
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A WHAT kind of gov't in Indonesia has had some small success in improving the welfare of its people
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police-state
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it continued its bloody repression of the ppl of
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East Timor
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The gov't in the Philippines is
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corrupt and ineffective
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Thailand economically
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relatively prosperous
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And its conflict level
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has been very low
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Capitalism and Western-style demcracy
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don't always exist in unison
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The Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, and Indonesia are mainly
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dictatorships
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China, Vietnam, and North Korea are
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Communist totalitarian
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impoverished people tend to have more children because
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they are more likely to lose some
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In most of Asia, care for the elderly is
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done by their children as there is nothing else available
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in cities, literacy
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is higher
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Literacy causes
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lower birth rates
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Tree cutting has caused a great deal of
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flooding
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Only which country has strict regulations to kee tree cutting down?
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Japan
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However, Japan tends to do what to counteract it
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import a lot of wood
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In most Asian countries, the water
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isn't safe to drink
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Even though there isn't enough water, people
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still flock to the cities
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Many Asian pesticides
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Are highly toxic
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Who lost the most culturally?
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the Philippines
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Tagalog
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has become the national language of the Philippines
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