70 would be non-white - 30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian - 30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual - 11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be
from 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
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education -
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need
for acceptance,
understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
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 a dish
someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
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.