• Jerkface (any/all)
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    2 months ago

    It wasn’t a classification, it was a declaration. It was what side you were on in the Cold War.

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      2 months ago

      Hmm. The Wikipedia article mentions a French essay as the origin of the idea.

      I’m not sure what you mean by this. nations either chose or didn’t firmly choose a side, but lumping together all the ones that didn’t choose together is categorisation. The non-aligned movement was there too but it didn’t include the whole third world.