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Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 07:31:17 +0800
From: David J. Davies <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Fwd: Global village


>If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of 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 (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-Christians
>30 would be Christians
>
>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 one) would have a college education
>1 would own a computer
>
>
>Phillip M Harter, MD FACEP
>Stanford University, School of Medicine
>--

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David J. Davies
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Washington
Department of Anthroplogy

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