Consider this...
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people,
with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following:
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both N & S
8 Africans.
52 would be female
48 would be male.
70 would be non-white
30 would be white.
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian.
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual.
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the U.S.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education & 1 would own a computer.
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent."
The following is also something to ponder:
"If you woke this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...
you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace...you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world - almost half of humanity - that cannot read at all."
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posted by NeoN @ 6/09/2003 10:39:00 AM
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