World in a Village
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 north and south, 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 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 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.
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