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.
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There
would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the
Western Hemisphere,
both north and south
8 would be
Africans
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52
would be female
48 would be male
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30
would be white
70 would be non-white
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70 would be
non-Christian
30 would be Christian |
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89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
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6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all
6 would be
from the United States.
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80 would live in substandard housing
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70 would be unable to read
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50 would suffer from malnutrition
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1 would be near death
1 would be near birth
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1 (yes, only 1) would have a
college education
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1 (yes, only1) would own computer.
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When one
considers our world from such a compressed perspective, we realize the
need for acceptance, understanding and education.
And,
therefore . . .
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 woke up this morning with more
health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not
survive this week.
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 attend a church meeting
without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are more
blessed than three billion people in the world.
If you have 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 can read this message you are more blessed than the over two
billion people in the world who cannot read at all.
As
you read this and are reminded how life is
in the rest of the world, remember
just how blessed you really are!
Please pass
this on to your friends!
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