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How well off are you in relation to the world?

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  1. Doug

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    Not sure if it has been posted, but quite interesting.

    Food for thought.
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    >Amazing numbers and great message for National Friendship week
    >
    >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:
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    >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
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    >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 70% 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 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.
     
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    And 100% of that is bias/ twisted is one way or another.

    The word "relation" appears in your thread title. "Relation" as an idea doesn't appear in your post.
     
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    thats crazy
     
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    Got the point. Yes we are lucky.....
     
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    It is not my words. I just copied an email that I thought was interesting. I apologize if I used the word "relation" incorrectly in the title. If there is any statistic in there that is incorrect, please correct it. Most of them appear correct from what I have read before, but altogether, it puts things in perspective. Simply an interesting read that makes you think. I am not religeous, but the statistics are interesting.
     

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