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RE: "Made in "Chaiwan!"

To: doug russell <dr-doug@msn.com>
Subject: RE: "Made in "Chaiwan!"
From: Len Bugel <bugel@bianca.sms.k12.vt.us>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 12:11:27 -0500 (EST)
A former student of mine sent me this a couple of days ago. It is apropo
the 'third world' thread:
>> >
If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people. With all existing human ratios remaining the same, it 
would look like this:
>> >>>
>> >>>       There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western
>> >>>       Hemisphere (North and South) and 8 Africans.
>> >>>
>> >>>       51 would be female; 49 would be male
>> >>>
>> >>>       70 would be non-white; 30 white.
>> >>>
>> >>>       70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian.
>> >>>
>> >>>       50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6
>> >>>       people and all 6 would be citizens of 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
>> >>>
>> >>>       Only 1 would have a college education.
>> >>>
>> >>>       No one would own a computer
>> >>>
>> >>>       When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed
>> >>>       perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding 
>> >>>       becomes glaringly apparent........

Len Bugel
'51 TD
'57 MGA


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