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Not sure if its possible post1900 but i except not so I post it here
What PoD would stop 'western country' to be synonymous to 'first world country' ?
Would much higher industralization of specially Africa and Middle East doing the early'ish colonization do it? Or would it need to start out industralization in the same period as it did in Europe and North America?