The Fourth World refers to
- sub-populations socially excluded from global society;
- hunter-gatherer, nomadic, pastoral and some subsistence farming peoples living beyond the modern industrial norm.
- 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.
Famous quotes containing the words fourth and/or world:
“All night I’ve held your hand,
as if you had
a fourth time faced the kingdom of the mad—
its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye—
and dragged me home alive. . . .”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don’t want to die!”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
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