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digitalchain - > Information to Impact -> If the world were a village
If the world were a village

There are currently more than six billion people on the planet! This enormous number can be difficult to grasp, especially for a child. But what if we imagine the whole world as a village of just 100 people?In this village

  • 22 people speak a Chinese dialect
  • 20 earn less than a dollar a day
  • 32 are of Christian faith
  • 17 cannot read or write
  • 39 are under 19 years old

(Source: If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World’s People)

 
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posted by digitalchain on Monday, July 7, 2008 at 07:48 PM
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posted by johnburnssucks on Jul 7, 2008 at 08:29 PM

There are currently more than six billion people on the planet!

Half of them live in a two-bedroom house in Delano.

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posted by catpaw on Jul 7, 2008 at 08:45 PM

And how many people in this village would be murdering their neighbors for religious reasons? How many would be starving because of famine? How many would be leaving their own home to sneak into their neighbor's home and take up residence? How many would be making babies they can't take care of? 

Doesn't sound like a village I want to live in.  

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posted by johnburnssucks on Jul 7, 2008 at 09:34 PM

It Takes A Village People.

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posted by sagefever on Jul 8, 2008 at 08:33 AM

How many are helping others? How many are educating,creating and constructing? 

Most importantly how many are passing laws *prohibiting* disco? LOL

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posted by sincalryder on Jul 8, 2008 at 09:58 AM

And how many sit on the local website blogging all day ;-)

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posted by johnburnssucks on Jul 8, 2008 at 10:11 AM

Here ya go, Sage:

http://www.youtube.com/watc... 

 

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posted by antiextremism on Jul 8, 2008 at 10:39 AM

Out of the 100, 99 hated George Bush with one undecided. The undecided voter has since went in for psychiatric observation.

That's right another Bush bashing.....it's my job!!! LOL

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posted by NancyII on Jul 8, 2008 at 10:48 AM

And you do it so well Anti.  :-)

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posted by catpaw on Jul 8, 2008 at 10:56 AM

Except for the 22 that speak Chinese, the global village sounds like Oildale.

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posted by oenophile on Jul 8, 2008 at 01:50 PM

The world is filled with poor, christian chinese youths who can't read.

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