Believe it or not as you wish.
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 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.
the following is also something
to ponder... if you woke up this morning with
more health than illness...you
are more blessed than the million who will
not survive this week.
If you have never experienced
the danger of battle,
the loneliness of imprisonment,
the agony of torture, or the pangs of
starvation you are ahead
of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a church
meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or
death...you are more blessed
than three billion people in the world.
if you have food in the refrigerator,
clothes on your back, a roof overhead
and a place to sleep...you
are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the
bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ...
you are among the top 8%
of the world's wealthy.
If your parents are still
alive and still married ... you are very rare, even in the United States
and
Canada.
If you can read this message,
you just received a double blessing
in that someone was thinking
of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed
than over two billion people
in the world that cannot read at all.