World View
If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the human ratio's remaining the same, it would look something like the following:
THERE WOULD BE:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North & 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 US
80 would be living 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.
I found that online and it really made me thing . . . so I thought I'd put it on my journal to get you guys thinking too. It blew my mind when I read that because we so ofter forget all the things that we have because we live in the U.S. Lately I've been complaining about some things in my life (like grad school) and this made me realize that I need to be thankful that I am in grad school period. I have a car to drive there with, I have a computer to do my homework on, and I have loans to pay for it all. I should be thankful - and I'm going to work on being so.
This doesn't mean that I'm not going to look for another school - because I am - it just means that I'm going to stop griping about the one I'm at.
THERE WOULD BE:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North & 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 US
80 would be living 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.
I found that online and it really made me thing . . . so I thought I'd put it on my journal to get you guys thinking too. It blew my mind when I read that because we so ofter forget all the things that we have because we live in the U.S. Lately I've been complaining about some things in my life (like grad school) and this made me realize that I need to be thankful that I am in grad school period. I have a car to drive there with, I have a computer to do my homework on, and I have loans to pay for it all. I should be thankful - and I'm going to work on being so.
This doesn't mean that I'm not going to look for another school - because I am - it just means that I'm going to stop griping about the one I'm at.