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 like something like the following. 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 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
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.