Third World

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Third World field trip
A View of Developing Countries
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Meaning of Third World

• Practical definition poor developing countries
• Has lost some meaning
• 1st World Rich, non-communist market economies
• 2nd World Communist countries (they have
  practically disappeared)
• 3rd World non-communist poor countries with
  immature economies

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A More Realistic Approach

• Developed Countries (formerly 1st World)
• Developing Countries (all the other countries)
• What about the former 2nd World?
• They are divided between the two groups i.e.
  the Czech Rep. is in the developed group, whereas
  Vietnam is in the developing group.

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Latin America
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Land of the Maya
300-900 AD
The Roman Empire was already declining.
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Mezoamerican Art
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Housing much like that of the Pre-Colombian Maya
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1st step in milpa agriculture - clearing
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2nd step -- burning
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Ashes serve as fertilizer
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Will produce a decent harvest for several years
only.
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Typical rural town or village market.
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Some are descended from the Maya
About 50 percent of Guatemala's 11 million people
are Indians, who speak 24 indigenous languages.
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1 of the population owns 80 of the land. 20 of
white men own cars only 5 of Indian men do.
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99 percent of the population owns 20 percent of
the land.
Copal, resin collected from pine trees in the
surrounding mountains, is burned in the Roman
Catholic church.
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Belize
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Spanish cultural influence - architecture
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Comparative Values
1 Pepsi 1 peso OR 1 peso 20 kg. of corn for a
family for a week.
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The Cathedral in Mexico City is the largest in
Latin America. It took 300 years to build. The
Zocalo (plaza) in front of it is the largest in
the world.
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lDeforestation results from high prices paid for
tropical hardwoods.
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Lumberjacks averaged 10-15 per week food for a
family of six cost 6.
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In the 19th century the Yucatan was an informal
colony of Chicagos International Harvester,
which turned the sisal into bailer twine for
Midwestern farmers. The planters built
wedding-cake mansions in Merida and sent their
children to schools in New Orleans and Havana.
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Sisal Plants
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Sisal cut bundled for shipping
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Sisal fibers drying
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Loading primary products for export
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Rainfall variations in Central America
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Checking coffee beans
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Fields of cash crops for export
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Raw latex?
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Exposing poor, red lateritic soil
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Tourism does little for the poor.
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West Africa
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350 years of slave trade here -- 9.5 million
slaves
Dutch Fort 1637
Portuguese Fort 1482
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South Asia
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Galle, Sri Lanka Portuguese 1580-1640 Dutch
1640-1796 British 1796-1948 Independence 1948
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Tea is grown in the Hill Country, above 1,220
meters.
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British colonials brought the Tamil Hindu (from
India) minority to pick tea.
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The British established coffee (until 1870s), and
later, tea plantations in 1948 the socialist
government nationalized most of these private
estates.
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3 billion people in the world depend on rice for
their food!
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Sinhalese Buddhist are the majority in Sri Lanka.
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What food is being sold at this roadside shop?
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The bounty of the tropics. Why would people being
hungry?
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Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka's first capital in the
4th century BC.
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A Buddhist statute
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The rock fortress of Sigiriya, the Lion Rock was
built by King Kashyapa, in the last quarter of
the 5th Century to fend off the persistent South
Indian invaders.
People climb up the 200-meter precarious metal
steps to see the temple dancers painted in the
caves 1,500 years ago.
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And you think studying is hard work?