FileTitle: Prose324.html
Category: Humor
Type: Prose
Description: Good Thought (not exactly funny)
If we could, at this time, shrink the 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.
70 would be non-white; 30 white.
70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian.
50% of the entire world wealth would be in the hands of only 6
people.
All 6 would be citizens of the United States.
70 would be unable to read.
50 would suffer from malnutrition.
80 would live in sub-standard housing.
Only 1 would have a college education.
When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed
perspective, the need for tolerance, understanding, and action
becomes rather apparent.