Bravo - Bravo (very good synopsis). Now back to MGs.
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From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net On Behalf Of Len Bugel
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 1997 12:11 PM
To: doug russell
Cc: mgsubmit; Deffendall Kelly 403
Subject: RE: "Made in "Chaiwan!"
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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