----- Original Message ----- From: hep <hingham at igc.apc.org> To: Jim Brackeen <brackeenjr at yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 5:03 PM Subject: Re: Imagine
> Jim,
>
> Do you have the sources for this info?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Brackeen <brackeenjr at yahoo.com>
> To: <hist3394 at CITE502.coe.uh.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 4:42 PM
> Subject: Imagine
>
>
> >
> > Imagine:
> > 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
> > 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.
> >
> > The following are also something to ponder...
> >
> > If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are
> > in better shape 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 have more knowledge than
> > over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all
> >
> >
>