People in the USA tend to think they are the center of the universe.
STATE OF THE VILLAGE REPORT - 2014
If the world were a village of only 100 people, there would be:
60 Asians, 16 Africans, 10 Europeans, 8 people from Central & South America, Mexico & the Caribbean, 5 from the USA and Canada, and 1 person from Australia or New Zealand
The people of the village would have considerable difficulty communicating:
17 people would speak a Chinese dialect (12 of them Mandarin) 6 Spanish, 5 English, 4 people Hindi/Urdu, 3 Arabic, 3 Portuguese
This list accounts for less than half the villagers. The others speak (in descending order of frequency) Bengali, Russian, Japanese, Javanese, Lahnda, German, French, and over 7,000 other languages.
