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:
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—Frederick Douglass (c.1817–1895)
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—Don Delillo (b. 1926)