To all my friends and loved ones

Love from me

Useful Perspective

致朋友們以及我所愛的人們

這是一份愛的禮物

也是一席金玉良言

If the world were a Village of 100 People

如果世界是個一百人的村落

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the exsting human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:

如果我們把全世界的人口按照現有壓縮為一個100人的村子，情況就會如同以下：

There would be:

57 Asians

21 Europeans

10 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south

8 Africans

這個村子里有：

57人是亞洲人

21人是歐洲人

14人來自西半球的南、北美洲

8人是非洲人

52 would be female

48 would be male

52人是女性

48人是男性

70 would be non-while

30 would be white

70人是有色人種

30人是白人

70 would be non-christian

30 would be Christian

70人是非基督教徒

30人是基督徒

89 would be heterosexual

11 would be homosexual

89人是異性戀者

11人是同性戀者

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth

and all 6 would be from the United States.

6人擁有全世界59%的財富

而且這6人全是美國人

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

80人的居住環境不達標準

70人是文盲

50人苦于營養不良

1人瀕臨死亡邊緣;1人正要出生

1(yes, only 1) would have a college education

1 would own a computer

1人(是的，只有1人)會接受大學教育

1人擁有電腦

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.

透過這個壓縮圖來放眼我們的世界，就會明曉接納他人、諒解以及教育是何等重要。

The following is also something to ponder...

再從以下角度來想想看……

If you woke pup this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the illion who will not survive this week.

如果你早上醒來的時候健康無恙……那么，比起活不過這一周的百萬人來說，你真是幸運多了。