What is a criticism of the categorizations of nations as developed or developing? Only Europe and the United States have developed nations. Cold War superpowers are the only nations which are considered to be developed. More countries in the Americas are considered developed than anywhere else in the world. Western-style models are generally considered more developed than non-Western models.

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Geovanni Hinton

20 November, 05:34

What is a criticism of the categorizations of nations as developed or developing? Only Europe and the United States have developed nations. Cold War superpowers are the only nations which are considered to be developed. More countries in the Americas are considered developed than anywhere else in the world. Western-style models are generally considered more developed than non-Western models.

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Ari Barron · Answer 1

Of the criticism regarding that categorization was: Western-style models are generally considered more developed than non-western models.

In Western nations, development was measured by technological and economic power, meanwhile, in eastern and southern nations, they held cultural and humanitarian value as a standard of development.