[thelist] OT: "As the World Turns" URL lost

lon.kraemer lwkraemer at directvinternet.com
Sun Feb 24 22:30:01 CST 2002


> hola evolters ... about a week ago i visited a site with a flash
presentation entitled "as the world turns" - it said something to the effect
of "imagine that the world has only 100 people" and it told the viewer how
many people would be of each race, how many could read, etc ... i have since
lost the URL ... did anyone else see this and bookmark it?
>
> tia,
> kathryn

I don't recall a flash presentation, but is this what you were looking for?

A Global Village

If the Earth's population was shrunk into a village of just 100 people with
all the human ratios existing in the world still remaining... what would
this tiny, diverse village look like?

That's exactly what Phillip M. Harter, a medical doctor at the Stanford
University School of Medicine, attempted to figure out.

This is what he found:

* 57 would be Asian
* 21 would be European
* 14 would be from the Western Hemisphere
* 8 would be African

* 52 would be female
* 48 would be male

* 70 would be nonwhite
* 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 percent 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 pregnant
* 1 would have a college education
* 1 would own a computer

The following is an anonymous interpretation:

Think of it this way...

* If you live in a good home, have plenty to eat and can read, you are a
member of a very select group. And if you have a good house, food, can read
and have a computer, you are among the very elite.
* If you woke up this morning with more health than illness;...you are more
fortunate than the million who will not survive this week.
* 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 religious service without fear of harassment, arrest,
torture, or death;...you are fortunate, more than three billion people in
the world can't.
* 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.
* If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly
thankful;...you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.
* If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even touch them on a
shoulder;...you are blessed because you can offer a healing touch.
* 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.

Have a good day, count your blessings.







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