The Earth Village

The Earth Village

If you could fit the entire world into a village of 100 people and maintaining the proportion of all people living on earth, that village would comprise of :

52 Asians,
21 Europeans
14 Americans (north, central and south)
8 Africans.

Of those 100 in the Earth Village:

There would be 52 women and 48 men
There would be 30 Caucasians and 70 non-caucasians
There would be 30 Christians and 70 non-christians
There would be 89 heterosexuals and 11 homosexuals

Of those 100 in the Earth village:

6 of all those people would contain 59% of all the wealth and all would be from the USA
80 of the people would be living in poverty
70 would be illiterate
50 would be suffering from hunger and malnutrition
1 would be dying
1 would be being born
1 (yes only 1) would have a university degree.

If we look at the world this way, the need for acceptance and understanding would be obvious.

But consider this:

-          If you wake every morning with good health, you have more luck than 1 million people who won’t live through the week.
-          If you have never experienced the horror of war, the solitude of prison, the pain of torture, have never been close to death from starvation, then you are better off than 500 million people today.
-          If you are able to worship with no fear that someone will assault you or kill you, you are better off than 3 billion people
-          If you have a fridge full of food, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are wealthier than 75% of the world’s population.
-          If you have a bank account, money in your wallet and coins in your purse, you are one of the 8 privileged few amongst the 100 in the Earth Village
-          If you parents are still married and alive you are a rare individual
-          If you can read this article, then you are not one of the 2 billion who cannot read or write.

And SO.....

WORK like you don’t need money

LOVE like no one has ever hurt you

DANCE like no one is watching

SING like no one can hear you

LIVE as if this was Paradise on Earth