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A nice t-shirt for only 2 euros sounds like a really good bargain. But, is it really?
Watch the video and discover why this “good buy” comes at a cost for the lowly third world sewers who make them.
Discussion Questions:
1. When buying clothes, what things do you consider?
2. What do you think can be done to help improve the situation of sweatshop workers in third world countries?
3. Is there an advocacy or cause that you support? If you do, explain why you support it.
20 replies on “The 2 Euro T-Shirt – A Social Experiment”
1. When buying clothes, what things do you consider?
I want clothes with a minimun quality and with a good price, I don´t chek usually the country were it was made or social label.
2. What do you think can be done to help improve the situation of sweatshop workers in third world countries?
We have a consumption habit in the first word that it doesn´t help in third world countries, but the solution is very complicated. The workcenters moved to those countries for an economical reason and it´s the base of the fashion bussiness. The consumers can solicitate good labour conditions but we haven´t all the information and sometimes we can´t pay more.
3. Is there an advocacy or cause that you support? If you do, explain why you support it.
I am not supporting any social cause specifically but I´m sensible for the enviroment and social problems.
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1. When buying clothes, what things do you consider?
The price and the quality too. I also consider if the company has a policy of social responsibility and ethics for the rights of workers.
2. What do you think can be done to help improve the situation of sweatshop workers in third world countries?
I think that most people don’t know that it happens in third world countries, so it would be useful to be informed of us about these situation of sweatshop workers.
I am sure that it would help to us to get the good decision when we want to buy them.
3. Is there an advocacy or cause that you support? If you do, explain why you support it.
I think that there isn’t any reason that we could support this situation of sweatshop workers.
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1. When buying clothes, what things do you consider?
Normally I always use the same brand of clothing. I personally prefer to pay a little more for something more quality and responsibly produced. It is possible that these articles are also produced in the third world, but I am confident that the company that owns the brand that I buy has a policy of social responsibility and ethics of respect for the rights of workers.
2. What do you think can be done to help improve the situation of sweatshop workers in third world countries?
Pay the fair price for the items purchased and demand that the production companies have auditable social ethics and responsibility, pay workers a fair price for their work and respect their rights.
3. Is there an advocacy or cause that you support? If you do, explain why you support it.
I am against child labour and I believe that one of the ways to support it is by only buying products produced by companies with a recognized social responsibility policy.
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1. I consider the origin and the material. I try to buy clothes tailored in my country and made of cotton. I think is good for the local economy, my health and nature.
2. We can avoid buying cheap clothes, if they are cheap, then the workers are really cheap. Also, we can support the local economy by buying clothes tailored in our own countries.
3. I try to collaborate with food campaings for the needed. There are still many people suffering hunger in the world even with the technological advances we have today.
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Discussion Questions:
1. When buying clothes, what things do you consider?
– I buy comfotable clothes and thatI like.
2. What do you think can be done to help improve the situation of sweatshop workers in third world countries?
– Contribute more money for this things.
3. Is there an advocacy or cause that you support? If you do, explain why you support it.
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1. When buying clothes, what things do you consider?
I don’t buy clothes normally because my girlfriend buys for me. xD But when I have to buy I go to a outlet clothes because I value quality of clothes with a lower price instead of seasonal or modern. For example, I prefer to have one good nordic jacket during ages than two in the same time.
2. What do you think can be done to help improve the situation of sweatshop workers in third world countries?
Avoiding fast-food clothes, buying for quality/price instead of having a largest wardrobe and renewing it each season.
3. Is there an advocacy or cause that you support? If you do, explain why you support it.
I donate to UNHCR and WWF. The first because of refugees that is a avoidable problem and the war is a serious bussiness that this persons suffer. The second because of necessity to improve the nature, the ecosystems and wild animals.
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1. When buying clothes, what things do you consider?
I do not usually buy clothes.
I don’t like follow to the fashion, I prefer have my own style. I am not a model to follow, my clothes is simple. I prefer feel me confortable than be unconfortable with the clothes or shoes. I prefer to wear sneakers, T-shirts and jeans.
But when I buy, I try to buy things of quality, that have a long util life.
I prefer the quality over over quantity.
2. What do you think can be done to help improve the situation of sweatshop workers in third world countries?
Is very difficult this situation, because many companies to cheap your costs making your products in third world country. And although their products can be of quality, continue precarizing the work of these people.
We have responsability in this, and we should prefer national products. of this form we would help to improve the situation. May be we do not finish with them but sure that we could diminish this situation.
3. Is there an advocacy or cause that you support? If you do, explain why you support it.
No, no directly, because I unknown there were organizations dedicated to these. I hadn’t knowledge.
I try always look at the label to know where it was made. no only with clothes, the same in other items such as toys or shoes. And if these were made in third world countries, usually I don´t buy. I´m not saying it is always so, but Itry to be atent to this kind of things.
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1/ When I buy clothes, I consider if the quality is good, the design and if the clothes fit great.
2/ Avoid buying clothes in places where clothes are made in third world countries.
3/ I support all causes that guarantee people’s rights. I am not involved in a cause but I support all this kind of things.
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I consider if the clothes I like or their quality. I don’t usually buy cheap clothes because I don’t like shopping and I always buy my clothes in the same stores. There are three, two of them are clothes made in Spain and another in France
stop buying cheap clothes and lots of it. there are people who buy a sweater every day. I prefer two good jerseys a year than two bad ones a week.
I want to think that many people want a sustainable world. because this type of shopping hurts third world people, but also the earth
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1. When I buy clothes, two things I consider are if the clothes have a good quality and the price. I don´t usually buy clothes but when I go shopping I like to find fashionable and inexpensive clothes.
2. I think that improve the situation of sweatshop workers in third world countries is very difficult. Many companies to cheap their costs making their products in third world countries. If we buy less from these companies and buy things made in first world countries, we would be helping.
3. I hadn’t knowledge if is there an advocacy or cause that I support. I always try to keep an eye on where it has been manufactured and if the clothes are made in third world countries I don´t buy them.
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