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are you a representative Earthling?
below was seen in an ad in the Wall Street Journal ---
is this just a factual compilation (see your nearest World Almanac)
or is there bona fide creativity here and thus i am taking from
copyrighted (or at least copyrightable) material?
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If we could, at this time, shrink the Earth's population to
a village of 100 people, it would look like this:
57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 North and South Americans, and 8 Africans.
70 would be non-white; 30 white
70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian
50% of the entire world wealth would be in the hands of 6 people
All 6 would be citizens of the U.S.
70 would be unable to read.
50 would suffer from malnutrition.
80 would live in substandard housing.
Only 1 would have a college education.
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