Recently, Rights Wife pointed out an interested study on cultural diversity in the world from Catherine Love, associate vice provost at UConn. Love describes what the earth population would look like if it were reduced proportionally to 100 people,
Of the 100, there would be 61 Asians, 12 Europeans, 14 North and South Americans, 13 Africans and one from Australia and its environs. Half of the population would be males, half females, and 67 percent would be something other than Christian. Ten homosexuals would be scattered among the 100. Seventy percent would have no bank account; 75 percent would not have a roof over their heads or a bed to sleep in; and 41 percent would have no basic sanitation. “The miniature earth study is a powerful tool to help people understand that here in the United States, we’re only a small slice of the planet,” Love said.
According to the U.S. Census, if we reduced Iowa to 100 people, there would be 49 males and 51 females, 94 would be white, 3 Hispanic, 2 black, 1 Asian. 57 percent would be Christian, 42 non-religious , and 1 very confused combination Quaker - Jew - Mormon - Unitarian.
We would all do well in Iowa and America to remember this occasionally.
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Dear Rights Boy,
I look to you on answers on all of life's many questions, but these answers are always in text. When are you going to post on You Tube with a link from your blog? I want to see Rights Boy and hear truth from your very lips.
An Admirer
I bet Rights Boy is having trouble getting his mask to look oh so right before he can do You Tube.
Thank you Rights Wife. I think we would all do well to remember that living in Ia is not a true representation of the world and how truly lucky we are.
Something tells me Rights Boy will be singin' and dancin' on YouTube tomorrow.
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