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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