We have speakers that gave us few interesting speeches in the last few classes, and the topic that grabbed my attention most is human trafficking and African American.
To all our surprise, there are 27 million human trafficking in our world now. This is a really unbelievable fact which also shows that slavery still exists today. I have always thought that slavery was abolished long time ago in American history after the civil war. They gained their equal rights gradually through the addition of amendments and civil rights; therefore they are seen as equal people in America now. Obviously I am wrong to believe that slavery was totally obliterated from this free country. It is so sad to hear that human trafficking is such a serious problem in our world now while I am unaware about this issue until then. The fact that the victims are mostly children and women makes me feel even worse. There is not much I can do to change their situation, most of them are poor and have no other choices to survive. Perhaps not buying chocolates made by slaves will prevent the growth of slavery, but what else can we do? I hope more people will know about the slavery today and appreciate that we own ourselves and our lifes now.
my suggestion to you is when you have a company, dont use the slaves!
ReplyDeleteMany people think that slavery was abolished, however human trafficking is the modern trend of it.
ReplyDeleteLi Booon,
ReplyDeleteZichen has a good suggestion on how to make a difference. What do you know about Malaysia and its role it this world wide problem? Knowledge is the first step in impacting a problem.
I agree with you Fer, i am one of them.
ReplyDeletehhh I liked Zichen and Professor Johnson suggestion.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading most of the my classmates' blogs I realized that you all mostly focus on chocolate issue
What about child slavery and what about sex slavery??
Yes I agree Asya there is more problems than only chocolate. There are more things that are produced by slaves, like clothes and picking fruits etc. There will always be people that will buy those products because they simply don't know about that. Like Prof Johnson said knowledge is the first step and I think we should bring this knowledge back to our countries, since this is where the slaves mostly come from.
ReplyDeleteThe saddest part is this is not only American problem like what happened before the Civil War but it is a huge problem for all.
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