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Fri 5 Sep, 2003 09:33 am
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing ratios remaining 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 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 acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent. I don't know if it is all true but none the less. Worth a thought.
Yahoooo! I'm finally in the majority.
Good thoughts, Husker, and, saddly not ones which flit very often through the minds of the privileged who live in the "developed" world. For many people of the Sierra Club and Nature Conservancy type, i strongly suspect they wish the population of the third world would just decide to die off. Then no more embarrassing matters such as you have posted here, and they can get on with making one big park of the southern hemisphere.
husker, The most telling of the 100 people world population is the 80 that live in sub-standard housing which also relates to lack of sanitation and food. As one of the 20, I feel very privileged and lucky. My appreciation of living in the US is enforeced with every world trip. I also heard from my friend, a physician who lives in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He said that his hospital has changed his schedule to work much more hours at the same rate of pay. It's very hard living out there, and too many in this country doesn't appreciate what we have/had.
think about these 2:
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's
wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
In short. The world friggin sux.
Wilso, I agree; when so much wealth is concentrated in so few, and the majority still have sub-standard lives. I think "sux" is too mild a word.
husker wrote:think about these 2:
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's
wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
I wonder if the one with the college education is one of the 6 wealthy?
husker, Bill Gates never finished college.
i know - i was gunna say somthing - but figured someone else would...........
husker, I met a guy when I worked for Florsheim Shoe Company in another life who has a high school education, but managed to end up owning 45 retail stores in the midwest, and sold about three years ago. He's still in his mid-fifties and retired.
I thing one need to got out to Fortune Mag. look at the 100 richest folks and see who has the college degree. just fer grins
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