If we could at this very moment shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 leaving all of the existing human ratios the same, it would look like this:

• 57 Asians
• 21 Europeans
• 14 North and South Americans
• 8 Africans
• 70 would be non-white
• 30 would be Christian
• 70 would be illiterate
• 50 would suffer from malnutrition
• 80 would live in substandard housing
• 1 would have a university education

50% of the world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people--and all 6 would be US citizens

When considering our world from such an incredibly compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes glaringly apparent.