八分之一的地球人口

from NPR: Chengdu Crew Departs

One Out of Eight of Humanity
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Having come here to report from and about a booming city, I've found myself spending a lot of time in rural villages that were hard hit by the quake. Here's the thought I keep having: there are about six billion six hundred million people in the world. There are somewhere eight hundred and nine hundred million rural Chinese, people who might commonly be called 'peasants' here. In other words, about one person out of every eight of us on Earth is a Chinese peasant. If a reporter from another planet were to try to find a 'typical' human being, they might reasonably conclude that human life best represented by the people we have met here. What strikes me most about them, as reflected in their hospitality, generosity, and their modest material (and perhaps political) ambitions, is their knowledge that life is lived intensely in the midst of other people: family, friends, neighbors, officials, even nosy American journalists. The experience leaves me curious about what the words "privacy" and "individualism" mean to people here.
- - Robert Siegel
路边按：我想，这句话（粗体）大约概括了中西文化（更确切地说，是启蒙运动之后的西方思潮与延绵已久的中国传统）的根本冲突。