Relativity in the new 21st Century
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 8 Africans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
52 would be female 70 would be non-white
48 would be male 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 (and not necessarily with a college education)
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
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