If
We Could Shrink the Earth
If we could shrink the Earth to a village with a population 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 possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all would be from the United States |
| 80 | would live in sub-standard housing |
| 70 | would be unable to read |
| 50 | would suffer from mal-nutrition |
| 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.
If you have never experience the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or th pangs of starvation... you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear, harassment, arrest, torture, or death... you are more blessed than three billion 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.
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.