Shrink the Earth
Author Unknown

'if we shrink the earth to a village with a population of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be.............'

57 asians
21 europeans
14 from western hemisphere both north and south
8 africans

52 would be female
48 male

70 would be non white
30 white

70 non christian
30 christian

89 heterosexual
11 homosexual

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and would be from the united states.

80 would live in sub standard housing
70 unable to read
50 suffering from malnutrition

1 would be near death
1 near birth

1 would have college education
1 would own a computer

when we consider our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the lonliness of imprisonment, the agony of of torture or the pangs of starvation you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear, harrassment, arrest, torture or death you are more blessed than 3 million people in world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of the world.

If you have money in the bank , in your wallet and spare change in a dish someplace you are among the top 8% of the worls's wealth.

work......like you don't money
love.........like you've never been hurt
dance.......like nobody is watching
sing.....like nobody is listening
live.......like it's heaven on earth