The Need For World Development

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The need for World
Development

Wanting and needing are two very different things. If you need something it means you cant live without it. But wanting means you desire, knowing deep down you don¡¦t have to have it.
So why do some countries feel they need to be more developed than others?

The world can be divided into two clear sections as far as wealth, poverty and development are concerned. The Northern Hemisphere is also known 8as the ¡¥developed world¡¦ because it is supposedly more technological and civilised. It consists of countries like North America, Western Europe and Australasia. It is considered that people living there have a high standard of life and enjoy the benefits of technology. The ¡¥developed world¡¦ stereotypically has skyscrapers, is very suburban and all houses have electricity and running, clean water. And another quite morbid fact is that people living in the Northern World have a higher life expectancy.

In the Southern Hemisphere the countries are described as ¡¥developing¡¦. Many countries there are very poor. Like Sudan and Somalia. Others are less so such as Bolivia and Columbia. These countries are said to have lower standards of living such as small houses, little food and unclean water. People living there often have no electricity, something I couldn¡¦t live without. And they have a significantly lower life expectancy.

The Northern World can be called the first world. Is this not unfair? Shouldn¡¦t the south world be called the first world, as it is supposedly first in need of the vital things humans require to live? And we are always being told that we as a human race are equal and should treat each other so. But we have been separated so hugely as a race, for such superficial reasons. Why is the third world called the third world and not the second world? Is it so behind the first world in development that it had to be a step further back? Does the ¡¥developed worldÂ...