A REFLECTION ON HUMAN DIVERSITY

A SUMMARY OF THE WORLD

If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely I00 people and with all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this:

There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (North and South), and 8 Africans.

51 would be female, 49 would be male.

70 would he non-white, 30 would be white.

70 would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian.

50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens of 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, I would be near birth.

Only I would have a college education.

No one would own a computer.

When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes glaringly apparent.