Group 5

Global
Divides
Presenter:
Cyndrelle L. Sobrio
Mary Queen E. Cania
Mark James N.
Dalogdog
WHAT IS GLOBAL DIVIDES?
Global Divides refers to disparities or the
separation between the developed (Global
North) and the developing (Global South)
countries.

The North-South divide is a socio-economic

and political categorization of countries and it
arose during the Cold War of the mid 20th
century. Before, countries were primarily
categorized according to their alignment
between the Russian East and the American
 HOW DO WE DEFINE
NORTH, SOUTH, LATIN
AMERICA?
 LATIN AMERICA

a region, cultural and geographical world or group

of countries having a lot of geographical, political,
cultural and other similarities between themselves
and at the same time very different from one
another.
 NORTH AMERICA

North America is a continent that includes

Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central
America and the islands of the Caribbean Sea.
 SOUTH AMERICA

South America is the other continent in the

Western Hemisphere and the fourth largest in the
world. It includes the nations south of Panama,
including 12 independent countries and 3 major
territories.
CAUSES OF THE DIVISION
BETWEEN THE NORTH
AND SOUTH AMERICA
1. Industry vs. Farming
2. Slavery
3. Bleeding Kansas
4. Abraham Lincoln
5. Secession
 GLOBAL SOUTH
Global South has traditionally been used to refer
to underdeveloped or economically disadvantaged
nations. These countries are those who tend to
have unstable democracy, are in the process of
industrializing, and have historically frequently
faced colonization by Global North countries
(especially by European countries).
 HERE ARE SOME CHARACTERISTICS COMMONLY
ASSOCIATED WITH THE GLOBAL SOUTH:

- Economic challenges
- Colonial history
- Natural resource dependency
- Limited Infrastructure
- Political instability
- Cultural Diversity
 Countries:

CARIBBEAN, LATIN AMERICA, AFRICA,

SOUTH AMERICA, AND PARTS OF ASIA
(these countries were used to be called the third
world during the cold war).
 GLOBAL NORTH
Global North is a widely accepted synonym for
first-world or developed countries, which are also
the richest countries in the world according to
metrics including GDP per capita. The Global
North is the economic opposite of the Global
South, a term coined in 1969 to describe the
world’s developing and least developed countries.
 Countries:

US, CANADA, ALL COUNTRIES IN

WESTERN EUROPE, AUSTRALIA, NEW
ZEALAND, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA.
(Regarded as first world countries during cold
war)
GLOBAL SOUTH VS. THIRD
WORLD
Global South
Is a new and simpler classification of
developing countries. It is the term
that replaced ‘third world’ that
emerged in the 1970’s during Cold
War of the mid 20th century.
It was coined in 1952 by the French
Demographer, anthropologist, and
economic historian Alfred Sauvy.
Third World
is more often referred to today as
“South” or “developing countries,”
Term is also inaccurate and outdated,
there are more than 100 countries that
fit the “third world" but they have
vastly different levels of economic
stability. Some are relatively poor but
many are not.
Third World
“Third World” was coined during the
Cold War to describe nations that
neither supported ‘the West’ (NATO)
nor ‘the East’ (the Communists). In
effect, the term was created as a
marker for a nation’s political ideology
(perhaps often pacifism in the case of
“Third World countries”) in a time of
great global unrest.
THE END!