Pop quiz time. Stop a second and take a look at where your clothing, or just limit it to your shirts, was manufactured. Have to give credit to Diane Nienhuis for the idea. I did it with two of my classes today. You might expect Malaysia (2), Indonesia (0), Mexico (12), India (2), Honduras(3). How about Brunei? Of the 47 students that answered, and the 18 countries represented as a source of manufacture, not one shirt was manufactured in the good old U.S. of A. Surprised? I thought there might be one, but I was wrong.
Slavery was abolished in the US over 100 years ago. But I guess I should be able to purchase a cheap shirt, when I want. Does that mean if the slavery is not in the US it is still fine to purchase the product of another country paying little wages?
We are truly citizens of the globe.
1 comment:
Excellent point dear....we should try the whole 'no clothing for a year' experiment...and then branch out to other useless items (aka crap) that we could probably do without. It would be fun, frustrating, and save us some money (more fun:)
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