Fourth World

The Fourth World refers to

  1. sub-populations socially excluded from global society;
  2. hunter-gatherer, nomadic, pastoral and some subsistence farming peoples living beyond the modern industrial norm.
  3. 4th World can also refer to sub populations, existing in a First World country, with the living standards of those of the Third World, or developing countries.

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Famous quotes containing the words fourth and/or world:

    “I asked my mother for fifty cents
    To see the elephant jump the fence.
    He jumped so high he reached the sky,
    And didn’t get back till the Fourth of July.”
    —Unknown. I Asked My Mother (l. 1–4)

    “The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.”
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