If the World Were a Village of 100 People如果世界上的村庄只有100人.doc

If we could 1)shrink the earths population to a village of 2)precisely 100 people, with all the existing human 3)ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:There would be: 57 Asians21 Europeans 14 from the Western 4)Hemisphere, both north and south8 Africans52 would be female48 would be male70 would be non-white30 would be white70 would be non-Christian30 would be Christian89 would be 5)heterosexual11 would be 6)homosexual6 people would possess 59% of the entire worlds wealthand all 6 would be from the United States.80 would live in 7)substandard housing70 would be unable to read50 would suffer from 8)malnutrition1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth1(yes, only 1) would have a college education1 would own a computerWhen one considers our world from such a 9)compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes 10)glaringly apparent.The following is also something to 11)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 12)imprisonment, the 13)agony of torture, or the 14)pangs of 15)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 dishsomeplace. you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealth.If your parents are still alive and still married. you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.Someone once said: What goes around comes around.So.Work like you dont need the money.Love like youve never been hurt.Dance like nobodys watching.Sing like nobodys listening.Live like its Heaven on Earth. CE01、如果世界是个一百人的村落如果我们把全世界的人口按照现有比率压缩为一个100人的村子，情况就会如同以下：这个村子里有：57人是亚洲人21人是欧洲人14人来自西半球的南、北美洲8人是非洲人52人是女性48人是男性70人是有色人种30人是白人70人是非基督徒30人是基督徒89人是异性恋者11人是同性恋者6人拥有全世界59%的财富而且这6人全是美国人80人的居住环境不达标准70人是文盲50人苦于营养不良1人濒临死亡边缘；1人正要出生1人（是的，只有1人）会接受大学教育1人拥有电脑透过这个压缩图来放眼我们的世界，就会明晓接纳他人、谅解、以及教育是何等重要。再从以下角度来想想看如果你早上醒来的时候健康无恙那么，比起活不过这一周的百万人来说，你真是幸运多了。如果你未曾经历过战争的危险、入狱的孤独、严刑的苦楚、饥饿的痛苦那么，比起世界上5亿的人来，你真是幸运多了。如果你冰箱里有食物，身上有衣服可穿，有屋篷遮蔽，有地方睡觉那么，比起世界上75%的人来，你真是富足多了。如果你银行中有存款，钱包中也有钱，还能到某处消费、点菜你便跻身于世界上最富有的8%人口当中了。如果你的父母依然健在，而且还在一起生活的话这可是非常难得的事，即使是在美国与加拿大。如果你能读到此文，那意味着你获得了双重