Michelle+S’s+OpEd+Article

= "Sewing . . . Why do we leave it to the children in sweat shops?"= =by Michelle S.=

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Generally, when ever I ask someone if they know how to sew, they say: “No, but my mom/grandmother knows how to sew.” What about this generation's ability to sew? Are we getting too lazy to pick up a dang needle, (other than to inject ourselves with drugs) and sew our own clothes instead of making poor children in Indonesia or China sew it for us? The poor children, locked in sweat shops, sewing for long periods of time, are worked to utmost exhaustion, unable to eat or get an education. We poor American kids without the latest cell phone, can not possibly think about something their Mother/Grandmother does for their Halloween costume. No, they can’t possibly learn something that can come in handy in the future.

I may be a little extreme when I say these things, but I firmly believe that our generation is mostly populated with lazy kids, who don’t appreciate anything. They sure don’t think about the kids in Indonesia, who work to fatigue so that some person can have their fifty dollar abercrombie t-shirt, when it actually took two dollars of material and eight cents an hour to make.