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 similar to this: 57 Asians; 21 Europeans;
14 from the Western Hemisphere; 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 would have a college education; 1 would own a computer:
When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed
perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes
glaringly apparent.
