An
excerpt from the book The Earth As A Village
by
Phillip M. Harter of the Stanford University School
Of
Medicine interested me.
"If
we could shrink the earth's population to a village of
precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios
the
same, it would look 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 nonwhite, 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 US
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 a compressed perspective,
the
need for acceptance, understanding, and education become
glaringly
apparent."