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What are 'fourth world peoples'? What about 1st, 2nd or 3rd world peoples/nations? How are they linked to LDC's (low develop countries) and MDC's (more developed countries)?

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The term 'fourth world peoples' originally referred to those people groups who were indigenous to their location and had been forcefully incorporated into a nation made up of people of other ethnic groups. In its original sense it applied to people groups of around 15 million people or less. This would have included groups such as the Native American tribes, the Kurds in Iraq and Turkey, the Basques in Spain and the Romani gypsies in Eastern Europe. Recently the term "fourth world ...

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