1. The Village Exercise Fall 2007 www.asu.edu/asu101
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2. Exercise goal
Welcome to ASU and to the diversity modules section of your ASU101 class.
This exercise will give you the opportunity to identify elements of diversity around the world and to compare your global community to your US community.
We are hoping that by learning about the diversity in the nation and the world, your curiosity will be stimulated and your perspective on differences, resources and privilege will be broadened. 2

3. The Village Exercise
In this exercise, we want you to think about the composition of the world and the US, and do so by using the metaphor of a village of 100 persons.
In reducing the world’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, what would the demographics look like?
Similarly, what would some of the conditions of education and poverty level look like in the US if we see the country as a village of 100 people?
Population 100 3

4. The world = 100 people The US = 100 people
Compare and contrast side by side, the diversity facts from a global and national perspective, see what elements are more relevant to you. 4

5. People of color and white people
82 Non white people
25 Non white people
18 White people
75 White people 5

6. Guess what the distribution of races is in a 100 people village:
__ Asians
__ Africans
__ Europeans
__ Latin Americans
__ from the US-Canada
__ from the South Pacific
100 Total
__ Caucasian
__ African American
__ Hispanic/Latino
__Asian American
__ American Indian
100 Total 6

7. This is the race/ethnicity distribution in a 100 people village:
60 Asians
14 Africans
12 Europeans
8 Latin Americans
5 from the US-Canada
1 from the South Pacific
100 Total
75 Caucasian
12 African American
8 Hispanic/Latino
4 Asian American
1 American Indian
100 Total 7

8. Distribution of men and women in the villages:
51 Male
49 Male
49 Female
51 Female 8

9. What differences did you find between the global and the US populations? What race/ethnicity are most of our leaders? What gender are most of your instructors? 9

10. Diversity is more than race… See the literacy level of the villages:
3 out of 100
would be unable
to read
67 out of 100
would be unable
to read 10

11. Who would have a college education in the villages?
27 out of 100
would have a BA
1 out of 100
would have a
college education 11

12. The internet in the villages
7 people would have
access to the Internet
71 people would have
access to the Internet 12

13. What differences in resources do you find striking
What differences in resources do you find striking? Is having a book synonymous of homework or privilege? 13

14. People vary in other ways:
67 Non-Christian
26 Non-Christian
33 Christian
84 Christian 14

15. People vary in other ways:
5 out of the 100
persons in the
world village,
would control
32% of the entire
world’s wealth $
All 5 would be
citizens of the US 15

16. What categories most surprised you in the world and the US villages
What categories most surprised you in the world and the US villages? What categories are most relevant to you? Why? 16

17. Please reflect on the facts included in this exercise and proceed to take the village quiz17