Global Village

The Global Village

"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
8 Africans
14 would be from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south

52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
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 (yes, only 1) would have a college education and

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 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 world's wealthy.

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."

LITTLE FACTS ABOUT INDIA

WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA

 
 

1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
   
2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
   
3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all  over the world studied more than 60 subjects
   
4. The University of Nalanda built in the 4 ^th century        BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
   
5. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.
   
6. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
   
7. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty stricken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.
   
8. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
   
9. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6 ^th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.  
   
10. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11 ^th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 10⁶ whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 ⁵³.
    
11. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.  
    
12. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
    
13. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.  
    
14. Chess was invented in India
    
15. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India
    
16. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley ( Indus Valley Civilization).
    
17. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
    

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