We're blessed - a pre-Thanksgiving post

WE'RE BLESSED
If Earth's population was shrunk into a village of just 100 people - what would this tiny, diverse village look like? Well Phillip M. Harter, a MD at Stanford University School of Medicine, attempted to figure out. This is what he found:

57 would be Asian * 21 would be European * 14 would be from the Western Hemisphere * 8 would be African

52 would be female * 48 would be male

6 people would possess 59 percent 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 pregnant

1 would have a college education *

1 would own a computer

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Based on these facts, the following is an anonymous interpretation:

Think of it this way. If you live in a good home, have plenty to eat and can read, you are a member of a very select group.

And if you have a good house, food, can read and have a computer, you are among the very elite.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness... you are more fortunate than the 1,000,000 people who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation... you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a religious meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are fortunate, more than 3 billion people in the world can't.

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 the 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