In this book the author describes the world as a village by saying each person in this global village represents 69,000,000 people in the real world. The thing that surprises me is the fact that if I said that one person in the  village is poor ( which I would expect there to be about 6 poor people ) that would mean 69000000 people are poor ( that makes me feel really bad now that I read this ). but what surprised me the most is the fact that 21 people speak Chinese but only 9 people speak english, I mean I expected for more people to speak english since america is so big including Alaska, Hawaii, and other us territories to add onto that.