Guest guest Posted December 9, 1999 Report Share Posted December 9, 1999 some food for thought > 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 this: > > 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. > > Phillip M Harter, MD, FACEP > Stanford University, School of Medicine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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