Really Interesting-- "Reality Check"

My mom just sent me this in an email-- makes you think how lucky we all are an also puts lots of things into perspective....

Let us not be stopped by that which divides us but look for that which unites us

If we could reduce the world's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:

60 Asians
12 Europeans
5 US Americans and Canadians
8 Latin Americans
14 Africans

49 would be female
51 would be male

82 would be non-white
18 white

89 heterosexual
11 homosexual

33 would be Christian
67 would be non-Christian

5 would control 32% of the entire world's wealth, and all of them would be US citizens

80 would live in substandard housing
24 would not have any electricity (And of the 76% that do have electricity, most would only use it for light
at night.)

67 would be unable to read
1 (only one) would have a college education.
50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation

33 would be without access to a safe water supply

1 would have HIV

1 near death

2 would be near birth

7 people would have access to the Internet

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I've seen this before... and I really wish I could share it with my 5th graders, but I don't think they're really cognitively ready to understand...

I had them write their own constitutional ammendments, and a few wrote 'for kids to not go to school.'

Well, I just mentioned that there are kids in other countries that would give their left arm to have an education like they are getting.... They just could not understand it... I know we all have our problems, and I'm not going to downplay them at all, but I think so many people just live in a bubble (me included).

I can't even imagine sometimes...

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I hear ya... Oprah always says how lucky we are to be women born in America.

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Wow - that's really interesting. Glad to see only 1 would have HIV!

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It is from a famous book "If the World Were a Village" - I use it in my 7th grade math class when teaching graphing. It's also the theme for my bulletin board this month .

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So sad that 67% don't know how to read.

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very interesting

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Posted by Melbernai

Posted by mrswask

Wow - that's really interesting. Glad to see only 1 would have HIV!

One person out of 100 is a pretty significant number.

I agree. That's 1% of the world's population.

This was great to read!