Thought I'd share this with you all - made me smile...

[CarrieW]

[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]The world in a village[/font]

[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]There would be:
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]52 would be female
48 would be male
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]70 would be non-white
30 would be white
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]89 would be heterosexual
11 woud be homosexual
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]6 people would possess 59% of the entire world’s wealth and all 6 would be from the United States
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]80 would live in sub-standard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent. The following is also something to ponder...
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...you are ahead of 500 million people in the world
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]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
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace...you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]If your parents are still alive and still married...you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]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
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[font=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Someone once said: What goes around comes around
Work like you don’t need the money
Love like you’ve never been hurt
Dance like nobody’s watching
Sing like nobody’s listening
Live like it’s Heaven on Earth
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[The Beauty Shed]

Well that gives you a lot to think about doesn't it! That's actually really interesting aswell. Thanks for the input and making us all feel special and fortunate!