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如果世界是一个一百人村落To all my friends and loved ones Love from me Useful Perspective 谨以此文献给我至亲至爱的人们 这是一份爱的礼物 也是一席金玉良言 If the world is a Village of 100 People ――David J.Smith Shelath Armstrory If we could shrink①the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios② remaining the same, it would look something like the following: There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere③, 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 heterosexual④ 11 would be homosexual⑤ 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world’ s wealth and all 6 would be from the United States. 80 would live in substandard⑥ housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition⑦ 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 imprisonment⑧, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...you are ahead of 500 million 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 dish someplace...you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealth. If your parents are still alive and still married...you are very rare, even in the United Stated and Canada. Someone once said: What goes around comes arou