*** 100 people ***

[NamePopper.com]

I recently purchased a domain that was a fairly high traffic site. It had a lot of very interesting articles and posts on it from people all around the world. Here is one that I found particularly interesting......


*** 100 people ***

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.

 

[Anthony Ng]

I guess if we actually sample 100 people according to that and put them in a closed sphere like an island or something, it would be more interesting than watching "Big Brother"!

 

[CoolHost.com]

"70 would be unable to read"

That is VERY scarey!
Grrrr.