Nikola Stankovic (nikola@yurope.com)
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:08:34 -0700
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> "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.
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> 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
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> 70 would be non-Christian
> 30 would be Christian
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> 89 would be heterosexual
> 11 would be homosexual
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> 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
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> 70 would be unable to read
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> 50 would suffer from malnutrition
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> 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
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> 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
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> 1 would own a computer
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> When one considers our world from such a compressed
> perspective, the need for both acceptance, understanding and
> education becomes glaringly apparent."
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> Phillip M Harter, MD, FACEP
> Stanford University, School of Medicine
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