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. 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.
Phillip M Harter, MD, FACEP Stanford University, School of Medicine