如果世界是一个一百人的村落

To all my friends and loved ones

Love from me

Useful Perspective

谨以此文献给我至亲至爱的人们

这是一份爱的礼物

也是一席金玉良言

If the world is a Village of 100 People

――David J.Smith

Shelath Armstrory

If we could shrink①the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios② remaining the same, it would look something like the following:

There would be:

57 Asians

21 Europeans

14 from the Western Hemisphere③, 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 heterosexual④

11 would be homosexual⑤

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world' s wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.

80 would live in substandard⑥ housing

70 would be unable to read

50 would suffer from malnutrition⑦

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 imprisonment⑧, 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 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 Stated and Canada.

Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

So...

Work live 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.

译文对照

如果世界是一个一百人的村落

大卫・史密斯

谢拉・阿姆斯壮

如果我们把全世界的人口按照现有压缩为一个１００人的村子，情况就会如同以下：

这个村子里有：

57人是亚洲人

21人是欧洲人

14人来自西半球的南、北美洲

8人是非洲人

52人是女性

48人是男性

70人是有色人种

30人是白人

70人是非基督教徒

30人是基督徒

89人是异性恋者

11人是同性恋者

6人拥有全世界59％的财富而且这6人全是美国人

80人的居住环境不达标准

70人是文盲

50人苦于营养不良

1人濒临死亡；1人正要出生

1人（是的，只有１人)会接受大学教育

1人拥有电脑

透过这个压缩图来放眼我们的世界，就会明晓接纳他人、谅解以及教育是何等重要。

再从以下角度来想想看……

如果你早上醒来的时候健康无恙……那么，比起活不过这一周的百万人来说，你真是幸运多了。

如果你未曾经历过战争的危险、入狱的孤独、严刑的苦楚、饥饿的痛苦……那么，比起世界上５亿人来，你真是幸运多了。

如果你冰箱里有食物，身上有衣服可穿，有屋篷遮蔽，有地方睡觉……那么，比起世界上75％的人来，你真是富足多了。

如果你银行中有存款，钱包中也有钱，还能到某处消费习菜……你便跻身在世界上最富有的８％人口当中了。

如果你的父母依然健在，而且还在一起生活的话……这可是非常难得的事，即使是在美国与加拿大。

有人说过：我所付出的终将会回归。

所以……

去工作时，犹如你不执迷于金钱。

去爱他人，犹如你从未曾被伤害。

去舞蹈吧，犹如无人在一旁观看。

去歌唱吧，犹如无人在一边谛听。

好好地生活，犹如这里是人间乐土。

细节链接

1.shrink：收缩, (使)皱缩, 缩短。例如：The dress shrank when I washed it.（这件衣服洗后缩水了。）/ The cloth shrinks in the wash.（这布一洗要缩水）/ He shrank with cold.（他冷得缩成一团）。此外，shrink还有退缩、回避之意。如：A shy man shrinks from meeting strangers.（羞怯的人怕见生人。）在美国俚语中，shrink也有神经科医生、心理医生的意思。

2.ratio比, 比率, [财政]复本位制中金银的法定比价。

3.Western Hemisphere: 西半球。

4.heterosexual:异性恋者。在口语表达中，人们经常用I am straight来表示自己是异性恋者。

5.homosexual：同性恋者。具体的说法是：gay(男同性恋)；lesbian（女同性恋）。

6.substandard: 标准以下的, 不合规格的。

7.malnutrition：营养失调, 营养不良。

8.imprisonment：关押。

思晴小语

看了这段文字过后才恍然意识到自己是多么的幸福。甚至觉得，平时抱怨生活中不尽如人意的地方也是种罪过。It's really important to know that you have time to be a human being. Whatever happens, you're still in the mood to smell the flowers. A pity that not everyone realizes this beauty of relaxing.有时候想想，我们能够作为一个独立的灵魂生存在这个世界上，其实就是一种幸运。我们应当心存感激地过好每一天才是。

所以，诚心地希望你――我的朋友，无论平常多么忙，记得给自己保留一个自然的空间，静静品味生活的各种滋味。有时候可能就是一杯清茶，一个孩子天真烂漫的笑容，都会给我们带来特别美妙的感受。Every morning you open the window and greet the first beam of sunshine, a new day comes! 每天清晨，当你推开窗，感受到清晨的第一缕阳光，这时你会发现，崭新的一天来了……