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Jimin Lai
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By: Jimin Lai
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| Tuesday, 27-Dec-2005 00:00 |
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Village of 100 people
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Something to ponder:
This illustration comes from Dr Philip Harter of Stanford University’s School of Medicine which is now widely quoted:
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 would be Africans;
- 52 would be female, 48 male;
- 30 would be white, 70 would be non-white;
- 70 would be non-Christian, 30 Christian;
- 89 would be heterosexual, 11 homosexual;
- 6 people would possess 59 per cent of the entire world’s wealth and all six would be from the USA;
- 80 would live in substandard housing;
- 70 would be unable to read, 50 would suffer from malnutrition;
- one would be near death, one would be near birth;
- one (yes, only one) would have a college education; and
- one (yes, only one) would own a computer.
Now if this is the world now, what can we do to make it different? And we talk about the Jews and the Muslims and what have you's. Is it all really that important? God gave us brilliant minds but most of us do not make full use of it. If we are to see the human race evolve into higher beings, we need to evolve our minds first.
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