The definition of the First World is “The United States and its allies in the Cold War.” The Second World is the Soviet Union and its allies. The Third World is everyone else. This definition places Finland and Switzerland in the Third World.

The connotation of “third world” meaning where we go to shoot those “for less than the price of a cup of coffee a day, you too can give food and water to this desolate brown child” commercials came later.