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Title: A View of the Global Village Post by: Bantu_Kelani on November 04, 2004, 06:08:07 PM This statistic has been floating around the Internet for a couple of years. It is worth reading one more time, just to keep things in perspective.
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, 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 posses 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the U.S. 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 Is this Global Society based on equality or cooperation? Exploitation or mutual profit? Ask yourself.. B.K |