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morrigirlMy Mom sent me this forward a few weeks ago. I really like it.
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 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.
Isn't that cool?
Anyway I've been meaning to write an entry for days, but every time I sit down at the computer...I dunno, I just don't want to do it. There are things that are bugging me that I feel as though I SHOULD write about, but I don't want to. Not because they are particularly personal or secretive but simply because I never feel the overwhelming urge to rehash all my irritations for an hour. I'm sick of the stuff that's bothering me so therefore why the hell would I want to spend a significant chunk of my day recounting them, ya know?
That's all I have to say for now.
Carla
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 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.
Isn't that cool?
Anyway I've been meaning to write an entry for days, but every time I sit down at the computer...I dunno, I just don't want to do it. There are things that are bugging me that I feel as though I SHOULD write about, but I don't want to. Not because they are particularly personal or secretive but simply because I never feel the overwhelming urge to rehash all my irritations for an hour. I'm sick of the stuff that's bothering me so therefore why the hell would I want to spend a significant chunk of my day recounting them, ya know?
That's all I have to say for now.
Carla
