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I'm taking an Anthropology class titled "Globalization and the Human Condition," and some of the material we have covered has sparked my interest of what is in my own closet. I looked at maybe 60 items of clothing, from shirts to underwear to jackets to jeans, and only around 5 of the 60 were made in the United States. That in itself is not the most interesting part, however. The thing that surprised me was that the other 55 or so items came from 25 different countries. Twenty. Five. My Hanes t-shirts alone were made in four different countries.

We could get into a huge debate over the morals of low-wage manufacturing overseas. There are good and bad sides to it from many different perspectives. You can't ignore the magnitude of it, though. Almost everything that we, the "western world," wear is made somewhere else in the world for probably less than a dollar an hour. It varies with the product, though, because most of my household products and bathroom supplies were made in the United States.

That's right. I just went through almost every tag in my closet at 12:45 am when I have an unfinished homework assignment due at 10 am. :/