>Sender: >To: >X-Original-Message-ID: <124b01befdd8$a8731470$9acf69cf@pacbell.net> >From: "Peter McWilliams" >Subject: A village of 100 >Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 04:10:59 -0700 >X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 >X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > > >This went around a year or so ago, and seems to be going around again. It's >still fascinating, so here it goes again. > >Enjoy, > >Peter > >========= > > >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 >like 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 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 both acceptance, understanding and >education becomes glaringly apparent." > > >Phillip M Harter, MD, FACEP >Stanford University, School of Medicine > > >================================================================ > >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------