While still used in everyday speech, the term “Third World” is regarded as a vestige of Cold War politics, when the world was divided into three groups based on political and economic orientations or alliances. “First World” describes the United States and its allies, including Japan, Canada and countries in Western Europe, while nations that were part of the Communist Bloc, including China, USSR, Cuba and countries in Eastern Europe comprised the “Second World.” The term was first used (Alfred Akfred Sauvy 1952) to describe countries that were politically aligned with neither the First nor the Second worlds. “Third World” also became an economic categorization, used to refer to the poorest countries and regions of the world. This included countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, many of which were formerly colonized by Europe. An increasing number of people agree that the term is no longer appropriate, as it is not an accurate description of the complexity of the world and because it reinforces a division of the world into Western superiority and non-Western inferiority.