What makes up this Village we call Earth?
If we could shrink the earth's population down to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look approximately 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
89 would be heterosexual 11 would be homosexual
71 would be non-Christian 24 would be Christian 5 people would have no concept of religion
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth All 6 of them would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read and write 50 would be suffering from malnutrition
2 would be near death
Only 1 person in the village would own a computer, much like the computer you are using to read this... but...
65 people in the village would consider you enormously wealthy 11 people in the village would think you a demon or wizard and call your computer a "magic box" and either seek to destroy your computer, or begin to worship it. 6 people in the village would pass you on the street and say "You have mail! Ha ha! What are you wearing? Ha ha!"
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