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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

BP 1 QTR3: T-Shirt Travels Reaction Paper

I have picked questions 1,2, and4 to answer.

The narrater learned about Zambia's second hand clothing business when she first arrived in the Country. She found out that 95% of The Salvation Army's second hand clothing was being sold to dealers. These dealers were then selling them to Zambian shop owners to sell. She wanted to let everyone know where their clothing was really going so she made the documentary T-shirt Travels. Luka is one of the shop owners that sell these clothes. He always asks to pick out his own bale to make sure it is a good set. A good set will make him a better profit and help buy food for his cousins, brothers, sisters, and mother. He did not have the money to finish school when he was younger and started to get in trouble. Luka doesn't want the same future for his family.

The Salvation Army sells most of the used clothes that are donated, to the dealers that then ship them to Africa. Second hand clothes is America's biggest export to Africa.in these exchanges the dealers make the most money because of how many Africans buy the bales. Africans cannot manufacture their own clothing because of how big the second hand clothing business really is. The business shut down all of the their clothing factories. Africans now depend on America for their clothing.

Some Africans think America is great and love us very much, but others think that all we want is money. They believe this because of the second hand clothing industry.