Post by writerstaremily on Apr 4, 2007 14:00:33 GMT -5
Reality Check
If we could shrink the entire Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people. With all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this:
There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (North and South) and 8 Africans.
51 would be female; 49 would be male
70 would be other than white; 30 white.
70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian.
50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens of the United States.
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 giving birth
Only 1 would have a college education.
No one would own a computer as yet.
When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes very apparent.
If we could shrink the entire Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people. With all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this:
There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (North and South) and 8 Africans.
51 would be female; 49 would be male
70 would be other than white; 30 white.
70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian.
50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens of the United States.
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 giving birth
Only 1 would have a college education.
No one would own a computer as yet.
When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes very apparent.
