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 both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.

        The following is also something to ponder...

        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 just received a double blessing in that
        someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over
        two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.