Nov 08, 2004 23:12
My womens studies teacher gave us this last week..read it
The Village
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 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
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