假如世界是一个100人的村落

If the World Were a Village of 100 People
[To all my friends and loved ones]
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 million 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 fortunate, more than three billion people in the world can't.
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 dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealth.
If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.
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.
So ...
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 it's Heaven on Earth.
假如世界是一个100人的村落
世界上现在共有63亿人口，如果，将世界缩小成为100个人的村庄，它会变成什么样子呢？
在这100个人之中，有52人是女性，48人是男性；
有30个小孩，70个大人，在大人之中，有7个老人；
有90人是异性恋者，10人是同性恋者；
而70人是有色人种，30人是白种人；
有61个亚洲人，13个非洲人，13个南北美洲人，12个欧洲人，剩下的人则来自南太平洋地区。

有33个人信仰天主教，19个人崇敬伊斯兰教，13个人信奉印度教，还有6个人追随着佛祖的教诲。

有5个人相信树木、石头等自然万物都有神灵，有24人信仰其他宗教，或根本就没有宗教信仰。

有17个人说汉语，9个人说英语，8个人说印地语与乌尔都语，6个人说西班牙语，6个人说俄语，还有4个人说阿拉伯语。

而这仅是一半村人的情况，另一半村人讲的是孟加拉语、葡萄语、印尼语、日语、德语、法语等其他语言。

在这样一个有许多种族的村子里，学会了解别人以及与你的异同之处，并包容他人的原貌，是一件非常、非常重要的事。

还有，也请试着这样思考看看，在这村子里的100个人当中，有20个人营养不良，1个人因饥饿而濒临死亡，但却有15个人过于肥胖。

村里所有的财富，有6个人拥有其中的59%，这些人全都是美国人。

另外74个人分有其余的39%，然后由其他20个人分享那仅剩下的2%。

这村子的能源，有20个人消耗掉80%，其余80个人分享剩下的20%。

75个人拥有存粮，与遮风挡雨的庇荫之所，但其余25个人却没有这些。

还有17个人无法饮用到干净安全的水。

如果你在银行里有存款，在皮夹里有现金，在屋子里有零钱滚落着，你就是最有钱的8个人之一。

如果你拥有车子，你就是最有钱的7个人之一。

在村人当中，只有1个人受过大学教育，2个人拥有计算机，14个人是无法阅读的文盲。

如果，你能无惧于骚扰、被捕、拷问或死亡，而一言一行都可以依照信念与良心，那么你就比无法如此的48个人还要幸运。

如果，你无需担忧轰炸、袭击及地雷引发的杀戮，或是武装集团的蹂躏、绑架，那么你比活在恐惧中的20个人还要幸运。

在一年之中，村里会有一个人死亡，
但是同一年，会有两个婴儿诞生，所以，明年村里的人会变成101人。

如果你看到了这篇文章，
在这瞬间，你会拥有两三倍的幸福，因为有人想到你，并把这讯息寄给你；而且你还是能阅读的人。

最重要的是，此刻，你仍然活着。

前人曾经说过，我们发送出去的东西，会再次回来。

所以，
请从你的内心深处吟唱，
请悠然自得地跳跃舞动，
请将灵魂融入心中生活。

即使受了伤，请你也要像是从未受过伤般地去爱。

然后，请你去爱，
要爱你自己，和生活在这村里的其他人。

或许，
若能有许多的“我们”懂得爱这村子，一定就还来得及挽救我们被暴力撕裂的村子。