"If we were to reduce the population of the earth to the size of a small village of exactly 100 people and maintain those actual proportions that now exist at this present time. It would look very close to something like this.
In this village there would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, and only 4 persons from the Western Hemisphere, (North as well as South America) and 8 Africans!
52 of these would be female, 48 would be male, and 70 would be non-white, while the other 30 would be white or Caucasian.
Only 30 would be Christians, 70 would not be Christians.
89 would be Heterosexuals and 11 would be Homosexuals.
(This is true also in the animal kingdom)
Only 6 persons would own all of the Villages resources.
All, yes, all from or with strong ties to North America.
Of the total 100 people in the Village 80 would live in sub human conditions, that is 80 or 80% of all people.
70 would not be able to read.
50 or half would be suffering from malnutrition with 1 person on the verge of starvation, while one person would actual starve today out of those 100! In every 100 people daily!
One would be very pregnant and another would give birth to a child. Only one, yes only one of the 100, would be educated in
a University.
When analyzing this world from this perspective that is so condensed, it is necessary to also comprehend the whole, or
of the actual billions involved, not just a 100 people.
By facing this perhaps we will want to educate others?
(Not sure here of the specific meaning from Spanish into English by the original Columbian Anonymous Author).
For can this be fully comprehended without some measure of moral concern for the well being of the whole, in this village we all must call our world?
Yes, to reflect more deeply, if you have risen this morning with good health, have enough to eat, and no disease that is destroying your body, than you are much more fortunate than the many who will not be able to survive very much longer.
Yes, and even more, if you are not one of those who are caught up in an actual war, or in a violent conflict, be in jail or have the agony of being tortured, or the pain of slow starvation. If you have escaped all this, than you are much safer than most of the
people in this world.
If you have food in a refrigerator, clothes in a closet, a ceiling over your head and a place where you can sleep tonight, you are richer than 75% of the people in your world.
Yes, if you have a bank account or just a few coins in your pocket, and a dresser to put them on, you are in the top 8% of the people in the world who have almost all of the money!
If your Father is still alive, and your parents were married, you are also a very rare person.
If you have been able to finish reading this message consider that you have received a double Blessing. For someone was thinking of, and about you today.
Still more, you are one of the most fortunate ones living, of the people who can even read this.
So work today as if you don't need the money,
Yes, even as if you have been really hurt like most, Dance now as if nobody will be seeing you.
Sing now as if nobody is listening to you!"
My addition:
I too, would like to add what I have learned to this amazing story that is being passed on to you:
If you really want to know what it is to Dance and Sing in the most, best possible way, than you must help to see that all those in your village and world, be given the opportunity to dance and sing, as well as to eat, to have a place to sleep, and have some clothes to wear.
This is your responsibility, not only for those who can read but also to those who can only speak or communicate to others, in some way. The desire must be found in your heart.
One of the most compelling reasons may be because you see this inequality as a grave danger and disadvantage to yourself, as well as to others, and the need to make this a number one priority today and every day until equal opportunity exist.
Like in a war for Freedom, you must be willing to sacrifice, especially at this point in history for those of us here, the last probable chance we may have to end this terrible inequality, that threatens even our very life and love.
It starts in our relationships with each other.
One by one, we must begin to treat each other with the universally known Golden Rule, with equal fairness.
This brings a Peace more precious and lasting in our souls or spirit, than all the hard cold physical gold we might think we could otherwise accumulate, only to find we will lose it all, when God calls for our next breath.
That great Light of The "I AM" we must all one day see is summed up in "LOVE ONE ANOTHER", care for one another, not for God's sake, that source of Creation needs nothing, but for our own sake!
It is the only way out of the Hell most of us are caught up in, or at least must now swim out of, to reach the potential eternal Heaven Here and Now, before we can have the possibility or hope of in a Heavenly life to come.
Let us start today to build a better life and world by sharing this message with all we know or whom needs to know, and each being like a stone in the building of it.
http://www.equality4peace.org/
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