> If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely
>      100 people. With all existing human ratios remaining the same, it
>      would look like this:
>
>      There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere
>      (North and South) and 8 Africans.
>
>      51 would be female; 49 would be male
>      70 would be nonwhite; 30 white.
>      70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian.
>      50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of
>      only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens of 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.
>      Only 1 would have a college education.
>      No one would own a computer .
>
>      When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed
>      perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes
>      glaringly apparent........