If we could shrink the earth´s population to 100 people... Thread poster: Aurora Humarán (X)
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Aurora Humarán (X) 
Argentina
Local time: 03:40
English to Spanish
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All these numbers have had a very strong effect on my mind and my heart.
May be because I´m a right-brain sort...
May be seeing the figures exercises a special something that my friends (words) do not exercise...
May be the message is so terribly true...
Quería compartirlo con ustedes. Aurora
If we could shrink the earth\'s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remai... See more All these numbers have had a very strong effect on my mind and my heart.
May be because I´m a right-brain sort...
May be seeing the figures exercises a special something that my friends (words) do not exercise...
May be the message is so terribly true...
Quería compartirlo con ustedes. Aurora
If we could shrink the earth\'s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% 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 near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and
education becomes glaringly apparent.
The following is also something to ponder...
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million 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 church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death ...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
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
this 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.
If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore,
you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
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| | | | swisstell
Italy
Local time: 08:40
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| Thank you Aurora. Refreshing to get a most interesting input not connected to KudoZ points. | Apr 8, 2002 |
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On 2002-04-08 16:02, aurorah wrote:
All these numbers have had a very strong effect on my mind and my heart.
May be because I´m a right-brain sort...
May be seeing the figures exercises a special something that my friends (words) do not exercise...
May be the message is so terribly true...
Quería compartirlo con ustedes. Aurora
If we could s
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On 2002-04-08 16:02, aurorah wrote:
All these numbers have had a very strong effect on my mind and my heart.
May be because I´m a right-brain sort...
May be seeing the figures exercises a special something that my friends (words) do not exercise...
May be the message is so terribly true...
Quería compartirlo con ustedes. Aurora
If we could shrink the earth\'s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% 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 near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and
education becomes glaringly apparent.
The following is also something to ponder...
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million 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 church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death ...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
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
this 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.
If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore,
you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
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| | | | Rosa LARA
Local time: 08:40
French to Spanish
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| Cuánta verdad | Apr 8, 2002 |
Estas cifras deberían ayudarnos a ser más humanos y también menos egoístas y egocéntricos...
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| | | | Parrot
Spain
Local time: 08:40
Spanish to English
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| Sagittarians of the world unite | Apr 8, 2002 |
What else can I say? I knew there was something special about this lady.
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Local time: 08:40
English to Italian
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| Thank you, Aurora, very interesting... | Apr 8, 2002 |
...and moving !
| | | | José Luis Villanueva-Senchuk (X)
Argentina
Local time: 03:40
English to Spanish
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| | Thank you, Aurora! | Apr 8, 2002 |
Somehow we are all aware of these facts but we tend to forget them and concentrate on the relatively small burdens we carry ourselves.
This is beautiful and will go on my pinboard.
Printer is busily printing, surprisingly in RED. (that\'s truly annoying, isn\'t it?)
Thank you!
Uschi
| | | | | Aurora es una brillante cuentista de ciencia-ficción | Apr 8, 2002 |
Lo que pregunta es porqué todos los que estamos en el planeta no ganamos cada uno siquiera $1000. El Mundo en realidad con internet y todo esto, se encogió, se hizo más cerca, conversamos los que nunca, sentimos un mundo a nuestros pies, o mejor, vimos como algo en las estrellas, palpamos la cercania de seres infinitamente lejos,sentimos el canto y el llanto de los seres, su sabiduría, que yo en Proz he aprendido más que en los 11 años de estudios superiores en inglés, en gramática caste... See more Lo que pregunta es porqué todos los que estamos en el planeta no ganamos cada uno siquiera $1000. El Mundo en realidad con internet y todo esto, se encogió, se hizo más cerca, conversamos los que nunca, sentimos un mundo a nuestros pies, o mejor, vimos como algo en las estrellas, palpamos la cercania de seres infinitamente lejos,sentimos el canto y el llanto de los seres, su sabiduría, que yo en Proz he aprendido más que en los 11 años de estudios superiores en inglés, en gramática castellana, escucha uno que Henry eng-jap y se pregunta, lo haría Gates, lo haría yo, cómo no es posible utilizar los talentos más espectaculares de proz, para que cada uno al fía, traduzca, fragmentos, e ir formando la totalidad. Con peers online y todo!
Los japoneses no han dicho nada de Israel?
Invito a toda la comunidad judeo-cristiana a orar por la Tierra Santa e Israel. A actuar !
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| Aurora es una brillante cuentista de ciencia-ficción | Apr 8, 2002 |
Lo que pregunta es porqué todos los que estamos en el planeta no ganamos cada uno siquiera $1000. El Mundo en realidad con internet y todo esto, se encogió, se hizo más cerca, conversamos los que nunca, sentimos un mundo a nuestros pies, o mejor, vimos como algo en las estrellas, palpamos la cercania de seres infinitamente lejos,sentimos el canto y el llanto de los seres, su sabiduría, que yo en Proz he aprendido más que en los 11 años de estudios superiores en inglés, en gramática caste... See more Lo que pregunta es porqué todos los que estamos en el planeta no ganamos cada uno siquiera $1000. El Mundo en realidad con internet y todo esto, se encogió, se hizo más cerca, conversamos los que nunca, sentimos un mundo a nuestros pies, o mejor, vimos como algo en las estrellas, palpamos la cercania de seres infinitamente lejos,sentimos el canto y el llanto de los seres, su sabiduría, que yo en Proz he aprendido más que en los 11 años de estudios superiores en inglés, en gramática castellana, escucha uno que Henry eng-jap y se pregunta, lo haría Gates, lo haría yo, cómo no es posible utilizar los talentos más espectaculares de proz, para que cada uno al fía, traduzca, fragmentos, e ir formando la totalidad. Con peers online y todo!
Los japoneses no han dicho nada de Israel?
Invito a toda la comunidad judeo-cristiana a orar por la Tierra Santa e Israel. A actuar !
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| | | | | That's my girl! ;-) | Apr 9, 2002 |
Siempre ocupándonos de lo urgente y olvidándonos de lo importante.
Es bueno refrescar la memoria cada tanto.
Gracias, nena!
| | | | Subhamay Ray (X)
Local time: 12:10
English to Bengali
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| Soul-stirring | Apr 9, 2002 |
That\'s soul-stirring Aurora! You\'re a star!
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