rolly Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 This is from one of my education classes (multicultural education) at Fredonia. I found it very interesting. If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios, remaining the same, it would look something like this . . World Diversity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolly Posted January 25, 2005 Author Share Posted January 25, 2005 Ok, link doesn't work because you have to sign in so here's the original text: World Diversity If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios, remaining the same, it would look something like this . . 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 -six would be from the United States • 80 would live in substandard housing • 70 would be unable to read or write • 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 (yes only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer When we. consider our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding, and education becomes glaringly apparent. Philip M. Harter, MD, FACEP Stanford University, School of Medicine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VABills Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Well that depends. Which one ownes the guns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cash2Burn Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 1 (yes only 1) would have a college education Philip M. Harter, MD, FACEP Stanford University, School of Medicine 218188[/snapback] That's the scariest number of all. Not that the other 99 need a college education; but that the "one" is making all the decisions/policy that will affect their lives. Pretty low odds they'll get it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramius Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 89 heterosexual...hmm odd number, that means 3some!!!!!! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRC Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 That's the scariest number of all. Not that the other 99 need a college education; but that the "one" is making all the decisions/policy that will affect their lives. Pretty low odds they'll get it right. 218216[/snapback] Why would that one person be the one making all of the decisions? Do you think that it would be a dictatorship? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolly Posted January 25, 2005 Author Share Posted January 25, 2005 89 heterosexual...hmm odd number, that means 3some!!!!!! :) 218258[/snapback] HAHA, you have to be in college like me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Tate Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 89-would be heterosexual11 would be homosexual • 80 would live in substandard housing • 50 would suffer from malnutrition When we. consider our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding, and education becomes glaringly apparent. Philip M. Harter, MD, FACEP Stanford University, School of Medicine 218188[/snapback] This the type of nonsense that gives college professors a bad name. The race make-up may be close, but it seems like trivia to me. Like one of those CNN 'factoid' things. Interesting how he throws in 11% of the world's population is homosexual, like anyone has a clue what the actual number is (out of every hundred people you know, 11 are homosexual? Maybe if you live in SF). He also adds in 'substandard' housing, where there is no worldwide standard, which makes me also wonder who's standard is used for malnutrition. Yes, there are people that suffer from both, but it's the numbers he's using that I question. Substandard and malnutrition are not concrete terms. But ok, given all that, there's a 'glaringly apparent' need to educate, understand and accept what exactly? He gets an F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuntheDamnBall Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Interesting post, rolly. Good luck at Fredonia. Graduated from there a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UConn James Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 But ok, given all that, there's a 'glaringly apparent' need to educate, understand and accept what exactly? 218489[/snapback] Maybe that there's a whole world beyond "Death to all infidels," to stop blaming other people for their own problems, and that they shouldn't rely on us to clean up their mess for them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Tate Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Maybe that there's a whole world beyond "Death to all infidels," to stop blaming other people for their own problems, and that they shouldn't rely on us to clean up their mess for them? 218913[/snapback] Maybe. But those conclusions sound more like personal opinions, and can hardly be based upon the questionable statistics provided. The only thing that is 'glaringly apparent' to me is this is not 'higher' education. It's fluff. A college education should provide more than a CNN soundbite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobody Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 The only thing that is 'glaringly apparent' to me is this is not 'higher' education. It's fluff. A college education should provide more than a CNN soundbite. 218992[/snapback] I think as the years go by this is the only type of understanding that students (and the uneducated rest of america) can grasp. We have become a soundbite society. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 Maybe. But those conclusions sound more like personal opinions, and can hardly be based upon the questionable statistics provided. The only thing that is 'glaringly apparent' to me is this is not 'higher' education. It's fluff. A college education should provide more than a CNN soundbite. 218992[/snapback] Because educators do everything they can to discourage contrarian/original thought. The inverse of what education should be doing. Instead, we end up with lemmings who can't read, write, do basic math, or think for themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiew Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 89 heterosexual...hmm odd number, that means 3some!!!!!! Overactive imagination Ramius?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 Instead, we end up with lemmings who can't read, write, do basic math, or think for themselves.220538[/snapback] please darin!!! think of the children!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 please darin!!! think of the children!!! 220787[/snapback] Don't you mean think for the children? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 Why would that one person be the one making all of the decisions? Do you think that it would be a dictatorship? 218259[/snapback] Whoa....good question. I hope his head didn't explode when he read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 Don't you mean think for the children? 220806[/snapback] that's the government and mtv's job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 that's the government and mtv's job220927[/snapback] omg, its been almost an hour and AD hasn't replied you feeling ok bud? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 omg, its been almost an hour and AD hasn't replied you feeling ok bud? 220995[/snapback] I was eating lunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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