> > 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 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% 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 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 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 worlds 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > It's National Friendship Week. Send this to everyone you consider a
> > FRIEND.
> >
> > Pass this on, and brighten someone's day.
> >
> > Nothing will happen if you do not decide to pass it along. The only
> > thing that will happen, if you DO pass it on, is that someone might
> > smile because of you.