of precisely 100 people, with all the 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)
8 Africans
52 would be female 48 would be male
70 would be non-white, 30 white
70 would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual, 11 homosexual
59% of the entire world's wealth would be in the
hands of only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens
of 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
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 both understanding and acceptance
by each and every one of us
becomes extrememly apparent.
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-From the works of Donella H. Meadow's "If the World Were a Village of 1,000 People" which is included in an anthology called Futures by Design edited by Doug Ashley. She is a professor at Dartmouth and has a regularly published column. -
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Black Oak Cemetery, Canelo, Arizona
By Norman Rockwell