“Can’t we all just get along?”
By Herb Drill
Do you remember the movie, “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids”?
Dr. Phillip M. Harter, of Stanford University’s School of Medicine, took the concept a bit further. He contends that 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 this:
There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere - north and south, and eight Africans. Guys, we’d be outnumbered: there would be 52 female, 48 male. “Red necks” and racists would be outraged because of the ficve score 70 would be non-white, 30 would be white,
Jerry Falwell would have a right-side stroke: 70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian, 89 would be heterosexual and 11 would be homosexual.
The Donald (Trump, that is) would be up there with the six possessing 59% of the entire world's wealth - and all six would be from the United States (you lose again, Pierre).
Here’s more bad news: 80 would live in substandard housing; 70 would be unable to read; 50 would suffer from malnutrition; one would be near death; one would be near birth; one (yes, only one) would have a college education, and one would own a computer. We can only surmise his name would be “Bill.”
When one considers our world from such a zipped perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding, tolerance, and education becomes glaringly apparent – don’t you think?