Summer Reading Questions Who here knows where their clothes they have on right now come from What do you think is the overall theme of the book Where Am I Wearing Timmerman often visits the people who made his clothes in their homes and dwellings and contemplates the meani ID: 566618
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“Where Am I Wearing”Summer Reading Questions
Who here knows where their clothes they have on right now come from?
What do you think is the overall theme of the
book
“Where
Am I
Wearing
?”
Timmerman often visits the people who made his clothes in their homes and dwellings, and contemplates the meaning of home and the commonalities and differences between cultures. Why do you think he did this? Slide2
“Where Am I Wearing”Summer Reading Questions
4.
What other passages relating to home and culture struck you? What thoughts did you have about your own home and family
?
5.
Discuss the ethical complexities of international trade and what are the competing considerations?
6.
What are your thoughts about child labor? What were your responses to Timmerman’s descriptions of working children throughout the book?Slide3
“Where Am I Wearing”Summer Reading Questions
7. Discuss how Timmerman often relates contemporary issues to his own past or to examples from U.S. history.
8. What other comparisons between current conditions and the past struck you? What standards should we apply to other countries—the standards of our past or our present?
9. U. S. companies for years have been facing economic realities that make solving problems very challenging such as the example of a factory in the U.S. that was eventually forced to shut down. What are your feelings about this?
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“Where Am I Wearing”Summer Reading Questions
10. How
should manufacturers respond to globalization? What will you look for in companies that you buy from
?
11. How do you react to the following quotes?
“
If beauty lies in poverty, then Bangladesh is very beautiful.” (page 74
)
“Levi’s aren’t for sale in Cambodia, but love and sex are.” (page 98)Slide5
“Where Am I Wearing”Summer Reading Questions
C.
“I’m a mindless voiceless consumer wearing the clothes of mindless voiceless producers. But it just doesn’t seem fair that
Dewan
and Zhu Chun have to work so hard for so little and I, who serve little function, work so little for so much.” (page 180
)
12. What other quotations or stories in the book resonated with you? Slide6
“Where Am I Wearing”Summer Reading Questions
13. How
has this book changed your attitudes (if at all) about how and where your clothes are made?
14. What does this book have to do with you as an incoming Freshman at ONU?