Sweaty Sweaty Sweatshops

As consumers we have the responsibility to pay money for the clothing we buy. We think it is beneficial to know where the clothes we purchase come from. Even though we think that buying clothes from sweatshops in Asia is not necessarily correct, we do not believe that our consumer behavior will change. After recently reading an article over how sweatshops can be beneficial to a third world country, our perspectives changed a little bit.
We think that modern culture does not care enough about third world countries to stop consuming goods made in Asia. We are too comfortable wearing our sweet Nike kicks to even give a second thought to who made them. Rarely ever do we put on our Polo hats and Citizens of Humanity jeans and think about the small child in China who made $2 making them. We do however agree that it is ridiculous that the people who make our tennis shoes or jeans make cents per hour while we pay close to a hundred dollars for them. The shoes should not necessarily be cheaper, but the country who made them should be paid more for their work.

Finally, we do not believe that culture will ever recognize where the goods they buy come from. We will probably forget we even learned about sweatshops in six months. As stated in numerous articles, sweatshops are a complex issue that no one can truly understand, and neither can we.

Regardless that these shoes were made by a five year old in a sweaty sweaty sweatshop in China, people will completely overlook this detail when purchasing the Nike shoes they have wanted for months.