If The Earth Was A Village!

[kat2220]

If The Earth was A Village!

If we could shrink the earth's population to village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratio 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.

The following is also something to ponder...

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than many others. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony 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 of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the 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 this 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 world's wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.

If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

Author Unknown

 

[Professur]

I love that village. It just goes to show that if you ignore enough details, you can make statistics say pretty much whatever you want.

80 would live in sub standard housing. Interesting fact ... until you demand to know 'what is sub standard housing'. An igloo would probably fall into that catagory, but the inuit seem to be getting by alright, don't they? Mud huts, soddies, caves .... they all 'used to be' good enough.

Only one would have a college education. Yeah, that college education is of supreme importance for the workers farming rice. Let's not forget that most college education today is only passing on what's already been discovered. I'd wager less than 10% of the 'college education' today amounts to more than an apprenticeship did 100 years ago.

70 would be illiterate. It's almost comical that, of the 30 who can read, almost all choose entertainments completely avoiding the exploitation of that talent.

I could continue, but you've either already got the point, or never will get it.

 

[barelypure]

But ya gots to understand the differences in educating now and what it was in 1860. Here are some sample questions from a high school entrance examination.
Geography
How much of the earth's surface is land?
Mention the principal mountains in North America.
Suppose you were to go all the way by water from Chicopee to St. Petersburg: through what waters would you sail
Grammar
How many cases have nouns?
Give the indicative mode, perfect tense of the verb to come; also the subjunctive mode, future tense of the same verb.
Arithmetic
What is the Minuend?
The Subtrahend?
Divide 79165238 by 288. (And remember they didn't have calculators and I'll bet before you get the answer you done run out of toes).
Add 9, 2/3, 1/15, 5/6, and 2/9 together.
Divide 7 & 11/17 by 3 & 3/5 and reduce the answer to a simple fraction.

And this was to get into high school. Kids today have it a lot easier than Whizzer when he had to answer these questions. Oh, I peeked and he missed the one on the subtrahend...

 

[muggle not]

When I was in High School some of the towns still had one room schoolhouses. I once taught as a susbtitute when I was in H.S. at a one room school.

Anyhow, I really don't know why I made this post.

 

[buckaroo]

When I was in High School some of the towns still had one room schoolhouses. I once taught as a susbtitute when I was in H.S. at a one room school.

Anyhow, I really don't know why I made this post.

Hmmm, my sister once taught in a one room school in Oklahoma and I once thought about dating a teacher who taught in a huge school. Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Prof, man, you earned your PHd for sure. It's clear that the author of that piece used his own biases when he wrote it. I would assume that those of us living in the good old USA should really feel ashamed that we have it so good. But wait, if you listen to the left, there are so many here that have no health benefits and so many who live on an unlivable wage. How can that be. I guess if you don't have two TV's and a couple of cars, and of course, that must have, either cable TV or satelite TV, you must be living in a cave.

It sure seems that no matter what, there will always be people who believe that the human race is just totally evil. Surely they pray night and day for a cataclysmic event to wipe out the human race.

 

[Benevolent One]

I love that village. It just goes to show that if you ignore enough details, you can make statistics say pretty much whatever you want.

80 would live in sub standard housing. Interesting fact ... until you demand to know 'what is sub standard housing'. An igloo would probably fall into that catagory, but the inuit seem to be getting by alright, don't they? Mud huts, soddies, caves .... they all 'used to be' good enough.

Only one would have a college education. Yeah, that college education is of supreme importance for the workers farming rice. Let's not forget that most college education today is only passing on what's already been discovered. I'd wager less than 10% of the 'college education' today amounts to more than an apprenticeship did 100 years ago.

70 would be illiterate. It's almost comical that, of the 30 who can read, almost all choose entertainments completely avoiding the exploitation of that talent.

I could continue, but you've either already got the point, or never will get it.

You made some good points there Prof. In addition, there would not be nearly 11 homosexuals either. They want you to think that 11 percent of the world is gay to further justify their behavior and increase their influence on policies, laws, etc.

While I do like this original post for the most part, it does go to show you that like my grandpa told me "figures don't lie, but liars can figure"