i was 11 years old when my school teacher made us memorize this. i only remembered the first two phrases, but glad to have rediscovered it.
all the nice gadgets we have - phones, laptops, high tech sportswear, i do forget someone actually made them. as the recent foxconn suicides have reminded me, things are not as nice, clean, mechanized as we might think. workers are treated like machines, in claustrophobic factories doing the exact same thing, every single day.
knowledge is always the first step - at the very least, find out what we can about the people who are making our new toys. it's not so easy, they aren't exactly having a lot of free time to go around blogging about their experiences.
