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We wake up to the sound of our Nokia phones, we put on our Nikes and Levis and jump into Toyotas while sipping our Nescafe’s. Do our assignments through Google on our Hp computers. Watch our favorite movies on our Sony TV screens with Samsung DVD players, while having McDonald’s with Coca Cola. Globalization- we’re living it. Every day, all the time.
Do we ever stop to think who makes the products we buy? Do we spare a second to imagine the countless human faces behind these brands and labels? All across the developing world the workers who make our products are young people like us. 80 % of them are women 16 to 25 years old who are locked in factories and forced to work under hard, sweatshop conditions. Why? Because people like us need to have the best of everything, in all colors and sizes with all the right labels. They say the cruel and inhuman labor condition of the millions of workers around the globe is something the corporations have hidden from us. But I think we all see it and chose to ignore it.
Think about it: one day you read somewhere or watch a documentary about how children are forced to work in those factories with extreme heat, being paid starvation wages of hardly 17 cents an hour and living in misery, let alone poverty. The next day would you stop drinking Red Bull? Not buy the half priced pair of slippers from Wal-mart that everyone you know owns? Or stop watching television?
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