Subject: Re: demographics

From: Thilo Pfennig <[email-masked]>
Date: 12 Jun 1999 11:49:56 +0200

georg <[email-masked]> writes:

> along some recent threads the following copy-paste forward might be
> elucidating:
> 
> "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 like something like the following.  There would be:
> 
> 57 Asians
> 21 Europeans
> 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
> 8 Africans

This lacks some information as the majority in the world is build by
Africans+African-Americans. That´s what I´ve heard. Maybe this was in
relation to Chinese, not Asian.

The other points look interesting.

About the one with a computer: "Owning" an computer isn´t the
point. Interesting would be "using". And we had to count telephones
and modern washing-mashines, too.

-- 
Thilo Pfennig 
<http://Alternativ.Net/>

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