If we could, at this time, 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 and 8 Africans (North & South).
  

• 70 would be non-white; 30 white. 

• 70 would be non-Christians; 30 Christian. 

• 50% of the entire world’s wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people.  All six would be citizens of the United States.
  

• 70 would be unable to read.
  

• 50 would suffer from malnutrition.
  

• 80 would live in sub-standard housing.
  

• Only 1 would have a college education.
  

When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes glaringly apparent.

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