世界の人口を１００人にギューーーっと凝縮してみたら
どうなるでしょう、内訳は。
これは私がずいぶん昔にネットで見つけたものなので、
今の世界の統計とは少しずれているかもしれませんが、
そう多くは変わってしまっていないはずだと思います。
オリジナルが誰が作ったのかはわかりませんが、
アメリカで先生をしている方が、生徒である子供たちのために
作ったのだとか。
あなたはもう知っているかもしれませんが、
よかったらもう一度読んでみてください。 （注：英語です）
私たちがどれだけ恵まれているか。
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 millions
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 worlds wealthy.
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.
Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like its Heaven on Earth.
そう言われると確かに恵まれていますね、日本は。
でもね、
本当に 今の日本にいる、派遣切りや解雇されたりした人たち等も
恵まれていると言えるんだろうか。
今回のこの文はは世界に関してだけだけど、
日本（日本人でもなく、日本国内の人でもなく、日本）だけを１００人に凝縮したら
どうなるんだろう。
最後に、かなり昔のことなので、どのページを参考にしたか
わからなくなってしまったのですが、一応
こちらにも同じような文が載っています。
この人が書いたのかな？
↑ 応援Clickお願いします。
なかなか恵まれているなんて実感しづらい世の中ですけれど。
