Is There a Better Way to Raise Underdeveloped Countries out of Poverty?

Lexy Hansen

6/8/15

Mr. McKeen

        Cheering for sweatshops? There are thousands and thousands of people living and surviving in foreign places like Hong Kong, northeastern Thailand, etc. because they work in sweatshops. People there get way less than our minimum wage for working more than we do. All of them and their people have at least up to 5 kids, and they save their money to feed them and everyone else in their house. ‘''She's working in a factory in Bangkok. She's making clothing for export to America.'' He explained that she was paid $2 a day for a nine-hour shift, six days a week.’ from New York Times. It is a bit sickening to know that there are so many young women and older women too that are struggling to even live in their home while us middle class people throw away clothes everyday. I've come to an understanding that people should appreciate more of what they have than what they don't have. We need to open our eyes and listen to what we should know about sweatshops. I wouldn't cheer for any sweatshops, only if they paid more for the women that have no food to feed their kids. Since there aren't any other jobs for all of those people that work in sweatshops, they're forced to work there & it's saddening only because they could be living in better homes.

Is there a better way to raise underdeveloped countries out of poverty? There will be a better way because we have so many educated people working in those factories that once they are recognized for their brilliance. Being at the bottom (where we see them at now), they might think its that bad until they see how we live. We know what we see, they could be living the life they want only because its the only life they know of. If we lost all the people we had working in those factories, in my opinion, we would have to make our own clothes and no one would appreciate them because they'd be so used to how other make our clothing. Us Americans and other people living more highly of those who are struggling in poverty, are so selfish; we know we should help make minimum wage the same all the way around but we don't. Kids in bangladesh and Hong Kong are born with parents that work in those factories, and when they get to at least 15 they’re forced into working the same way too. Even before the factories “saved” people's lives, everyone was still living poorly and in poverty. They would be prostituting, drug selling, even selling their kids for money. But maybe too them, life became easier and better for their families as well. If there were some way we could help provide care and support for those who make OUR clothing and help us. There is no bigger picture than whoever was raised but the kind of culture or religion, they live by those. We live by eating fast foods and spending money on stupid things. While other countries help their parents build their houses out of tents or wood.

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