Lest we lose perspective in this Cospirazione, and forget what we are and why we're here, I found this again and thought I'd share. Maybe you've seen it before:
The Whole World As 100 People
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaning the same, it would look like this:
There world be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere (north and south)
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 homosexual
59% 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 one 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 and understanding becomes glaringly apparent.
The Whole World As 100 People
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaning the same, it would look like this:
There world be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere (north and south)
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 homosexual
59% 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 one 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 and understanding becomes glaringly apparent.
posted by KathrynTherese at 9:45 AM
10 Comments:
Has the world ever reflected any other ratio, I wonder. And will it?
I've seen that somewhere before and it is thought provoking. I think the ratio was much more balanced once, hundreds of years ago.
I dunno.. I can't help thinking if one but changed the words "United States" to "Roman Empire", it'd be very close to what it was 2000 years ago.
What are the things we aren't doing well enough? What is the very first thing we're not doing well enough?
The main point is that the developed countries want the underdeveloped ones to remain so. That is why foreign policies and trade relations are so miopic. Many people are relieved to see that there is still so much tribal warfare in Africa because that will keep them busy for another few years. But the people are on the move, they are fleeing those lands in droves. All coming to Europe. 25 years ago the Italians used to say they weren't racist. But they were: northern Italians look down on those from the south who were 'stealing their jobs'. It wasn't a matter of skin color at the time because there were no Africans. Now there are. And you should see what's going on.
I was just thinking today that the person-color which is referred to as "white" is really an amalgam of colors, isn't it? (Which, in a way, is also to say ti is a lack of a defined color.) Some of my best friends were people of far more coloring, yet having moved just 1 miles north, we found that bringing a Fresh Air Fund kid here from inner NYC was stuff of which strange looks were made.
But you know what I've found in my short 36 years ( or so... :-) ) -- I've found that even people of the same sex, same colors, same creed, in the same room and having been raised the same way.. will find some way to be exclusive. Even children.. my little 2nd grade daughter once came home from her public school red-faced and wanting to hide in her room. When pressed about what was troubling her, she said, "Never EVER give me a tiny juice box again."
We have to dismantle whatever biases exist that make it possible to look at another and say, "That is not my brother or sister."
oh gosh, make that "12 miles north", lol. Ordinarily, I love typos -- they are as endearing as freckles, but they can be confusing.
:-)
More than finding a way to be exclusive, the 'group' finds a way to exclude. In a one to one situation, two people of different 'colors' or creeds or hair color...will most likely at least be civil to each other. Group dynamics are a bit different...I saw this with my two sons as they were growing up. They would spend the day with a good friend, no problem. As soon as someone else would arrive, the good friend, (or they) would turn the situation around, find some way to take sides against one another. It's a part of humanity unfortunately.
It is part of our FALLEN humanity to be divided against one another. But grace lifts us above ourselves and teaches us to see the "big picture," to see that we are all connected, part of one Body in Him.
But how do we live this? How do we learn this? Christ showed us the way, and made it clear: "Love one another as I have loved you."
Maybe I will post an excerpt from the Suffering book about this.
Good point, FMN. One of the saddest things I ever heard, and I mean ever, was that one of my children wished she'd been an only child. I know it's "natural" for siblings to say things like that in anger now and then, but dear God, it does damage, doesn't it?
Yes, Kathryn, please do!
I think there's only one way to live it so that it really works. To place oneself below all others. Servant to all. In this world, it is seen as a failing. Yet it opens heart doors, frees from chains of resentment, erases walls that appear to be of brick.
And I'd have to duct-tape my mouth, and all fling-able coffee cups, in order to get there.
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