ABSTRACT
Like Socrates, we have all seen the maps and globes that represent our world. We tend, however, to have limited perspectives based on our small knowledge of much of the world and its peoples. Many of us are not aware that the United States makes up less than 5 percent of the world’s population. One-fifth of the human race is Chinese, 22 percent live in India, and hundreds of millions of others live in states that have only recently gained their independence. Almost all of the 750 million
SOCRATES
Dianne Long
people added to the world’s population since 2000 live in the developing world. The developing world comprises more than two-thirds of the world’s states, the vast majority of which are economically less developed and less industrialized than the Western economies.1
