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:
“Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated—serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world’s culture.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
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