From: "amjadg" <[log in to unmask]>
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To: islamic society
Date sent: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 09:52:14 +0000
Subject: really interesting
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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
>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 acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
Hillary Shaw, P/G Geography, University of Leeds
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