The name  Third World is no longer being used to describe certain parts of the world, but the perception still lingers. The modern third world is personalized and internalized. 

The term was re-defined in 1990 to make it more politically correct. Initially, the word "third world" meant that a nation is "under-developed, but Sauvy argued to differ. 

Today's world is plural, so the third world is not just an economic state. Moreover, these nations have overcome many setbacks and are now proliferating. Thus, this categorization becomes redundant in a diverse society.

But, does whom others call you to determine whom you become? 

If you refuse to accept whom you are called, the people that give you these names would have to keep changing it, right?.

Because if you are ready to grow, they would have to keep changing what they call you. Failure, powerful, successful or whatever.

For example, certain parts of the world have been called different names for centuries: Barbaric, savages, primitive, uncivilized, third world, underdeveloped, emerging, frontier. 

You see, to change what others call you, you need to help shape how you want to be seen, known, or called in the world you want to create. You are not what anyone calls you. 

You are what you say you are through your actions and how you view and treat your world.