Sunday, April 10, 2011
Do you know where your clothes are made?
One of my assignments for English was to find out where my clothes are made. Automatically I thought of China, because let's be honest almost everything it seems is made in China nowadays. But focusing on the workers, I found that the condition laborers work in are appalling. Severely cramped spaces, breathing toxic chemicals and working with machines that are highly dangerous without the proper safety equipment. Taking an average of the articles I read, most laborers make 3.45 US dollars a day. Adjusting that wage to the standard of living in America is roughly $1.80 a day, which in damn near impossible to live on in the US, especially since gas alone is 4 dollars (and rising). Finding out how these laborers are living almost the extreme opposite of what many Americans live like is truly saddening. It is perplexing to think of because many of these brands are designed/ headquartered in the US and made in third-world countries. Makes me wonder if I should be proud to wear some of the thing I do knowing where it is being made..
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I think that it is hard for us as American people to think of what is really going on in other countries when it comes to consumerism. We just want to make a living to get by ourselves as starving students,lol. But the reality is hard to digest and it does tug at the hearts of people who want to be more conscientious on what the truthes are behind our labels.
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