Diversity
Something to think about.......When
considering the need for both tolerance and understanding
If we could at this very moment shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100......but maintain the existing human ratios......it would look like this:
61
Asians
14
Africans
11
Europeans
8
South and Central Americans and people from Caribbean
5
North Americans
1
Oceania (an area that includes Australia, New Zealand and the islands of
the south,
west and central Pacific)
84
Non-white
16
White
32
Christians
20
Muslims
14
Hindus
9
Practice shamanism, animism and other folk religions
6
Buddhists
2
belong to global religions, such as Baha'i faith, Confucianism,
Shintoism, Sikhism or
Jainism
1
Jewish
16
non-religious
50
people do not have a reliable source of food and are hungry some or all
of the time.
20
other people are severely undernourished.
Only 30
people always have enough to eat.
21
speak a Chinese dialect (of these people, 16 speak the Mandarin dialect)
9
speak English
9
speak Hindi
7
speak Spanish
4
speak Arabic
4
speak Bengali
3
speak Portuguese
3
speak Russian
50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of 6 people -------- all citizens of the United States
citation: If The World Were A Village: A Book About
The World's People
Author: David
J. Smith
Illustrator:
Shelagh Armstrong,
Kids Can
Press 2002
Info updated
2007