The
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 woud 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 sub-standard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
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 up this morning with more health than illness...you
are more blessed than the million who will not survive this
week
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 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
your parents are still alive and still married...you are
very rare, even in the United States and Canada
If
you can read this message, you just received a double blessing
in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you
are more blessed than over two billion people in the world
that cannot read at all
Someone
once said: What goes around comes around
Work like you don’t need the money
Love like you’ve never been hurt
Dance like nobody’s watching
Sing like nobody’s listening
Live like it’s Heaven on Earth
Sent
by Robert Khalastchy
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