It came to me while I was relaxing my muscles outside in my Hot Tub Spa: "All individual nations and Individual religions are minorities here on Earth.
Now, this might be hard for large nations and large religions to take this in. But if you think about it it is absolutely true.
Whether it is the most populous nation on Earth China which is presently 1,331,460,000 people. source www.google.com/publicdata from source "World Bank".
Or whether it is Christianity which is presently:
33% of the world's population considers themselves Christians. That includes all types, though. In June 2009, there were approximately 2 billion Christians living in the world.
Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_popularity_of_Christians_in_the_world_today
Or whether it is Muslims which is presently:
800 million muslims live in the world
source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_muslims_live_in_the_world_approximately
Or whether it is Hinduism which is presently:
Demographically, Hinduism is the world's third largest religion, ... with more than a billion adherents, of whom approximately 1 billion live in India
Or whether it is Buddhism which is presently:
Around 330 million, mostly in East Asia, Although many Westerners are converting.
source http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_Buddhists_are_in_the_world
Note: I'm having trouble making it all the same typeface when I copy and paste from another source so please bear with me
I could go on and on listing nations and religions but you get the basic idea which is:
6,897,910,518 or approximately 7 Billion people presently alive on Earth. source is:
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html
So, my premise is that no nation or religion could stand against the rest of the world and win in any conflict. Therefore all individual nations and religions are minorities and could be wiped out by all the other minorities if they joined together.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html
So, my premise is that no nation or religion could stand against the rest of the world and win in any conflict. Therefore all individual nations and religions are minorities and could be wiped out by all the other minorities if they joined together.
So, in seeing that all individual nations and all individual religions are minorities in the world, it behooves us all to find a way to stand together for our mutual survival ongoing.
This is the best argument that I can presently find against either National or Religious ethnocentrism
worldwide.
For now, possibly, the United Nations and its next incarnations through the years look to be the best hope for Earth and its peoples ongoing.
Note: I also found this demographic for population rise worldwide here on earth by month (beyond now it is an estimate).
Note: I also found this demographic for population rise worldwide here on earth by month (beyond now it is an estimate).
07/01/10 6,852,472,823 08/01/10 6,858,904,297 09/01/10 6,865,335,772 10/01/10 6,871,559,780 11/01/10 6,877,991,255 12/01/10 6,884,215,263 01/01/11 6,890,646,738 02/01/11 6,897,078,213 03/01/11 6,902,887,287 04/01/11 6,909,318,762 05/01/11 6,915,542,770 06/01/11 6,921,974,245 07/01/11 6,928,198,253
Source is: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html
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