A Dose of Gratitude

[Gothic Sponge]

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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> > There would be:
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> > 57 Asians
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> > 21 Europeans
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> > 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
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> > 8 Africans
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> > 52 would be female
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> > 48 would be male
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> > 70 would be non-white
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> > 30 would be white
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> > 70 would be non-Christian
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> > 30 would be Christian
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> > 89 would be heterosexual
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> > 11 would be homosexual
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> > 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6
> > would be from the United States.
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> > 80 would live in substandard housing
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> > 70 would be unable to read
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> > 50 would suffer from malnutrition
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> > 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
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> > 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
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> > 1 would own a computer
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> > When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the
> > need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly
> > apparent.
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> > The following is also something to ponder...
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> > 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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> > 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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> > If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest,
> > torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in
> > the world.
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> > If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof
> > overhead
> > and a place to sleep...you are richer than 70% of this world.
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> > 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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> > If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very
> > rare, even in the United States and Canada.
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> > 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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> > Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
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> > Work like you don't need the money.
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> > Love like you've never been hurt.
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> > Dance like nobody's watching.
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> > Sing like nobody's listening.
> >
> > Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
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[Book Lover]

1. Always worth rereading

Thank you, GS :-)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. I always appreciate having things put into perspective.

Occasionally we all need to be reminded of the reality of the world we live in.

Thanks :)

[Theres-a]

3. I'd like to thank I'm grateful to have DU.An oasis in the bitter morass .

:pals:

[UrbScotty]

4. Thank you for the perspective.

It's always nice to be reminded of our blessings.

[mcscajun]

5. This one came up just recently...see Snopes.

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/populate.htm