Jiggy 3/30

Jameson stated that there exsists an "underside to culture", one that doesnt reflect the negitive aspects. I would have to agree with this statment and argue that our culture exsists at the expensive of the loss of others. Almost all our products are developed overseas in countries were labor laws allow for long hours and little pay, for the enjoyment and profit of our nation. This side that allows our culture to exsists doesnt benefit from our idealistic culture that has been developed in the hundred years but rather is suffocated by it. Countries such as China, Indonesia and India need our business to survive but the lifestyles and conditons that it puts its people in harbors pain and suffering. It would be interesting to think about how our country would look if everything had to be made here, what kind of cars would we drink and products would we buy. Would the poverty rate be so high with millions of more jobs available, how would the nation respond. It seems as though in the last hundred years we have decided to pit a sales war aganist eachother that has led to companies constantly searching for the cheapest way out. American made pride is left at the bottom of the list, with employment for our own people the last and worst option. Our culture has developed for the death and blood of natives of other countries but our own. A new swing of American made pride is happening, with companies like Apple pushing toward US design and production, but we still have a long way to go.