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Explain The Problem : The problem with Clothing stores and Clothing lines is that a lot of them make offensive and degrading slogans/labels on their shirts/clothing. Their ads also show a fantasy that you want to have, which tricks/fools people like children and teenagers, which they target to buy their product. Focus Question: What can people from all over the world do to help and make clothing slogans and clothes-line better, and not degrading?

How does this affect kids and teenagers:This affects kids and teenagers because they don't think twice, and most of them just want to be cool and popular and they like to go along with the fashion crowd. They feel like if they don't have the new 'in' that they can't be cool or noticed so they buy the degrading and offensive clothing that they're friends and the popular kids wear. But the kids and teenagers that think the shirts are offensive and they don't like it boycott the place and they get followers and without customers then the company won't get any money, and then they'd make a change on their clothing-line.

__**Boycotting Offensive Clothing Companies**__
"Get out of here, get them out of here, go make people feel bad somewhere else!" Have you ever made a change in the clothing world by boycotting a clothing company for offensive or degrading clothing? Teens and kids, have you ever seen clothing that in your mind you thought "I'd never wear anything that bad, it just isn't right. Come on that' s racist, that's degrading." Like the shirt from Abercrombie & Fitch that said "who needs brains when you have these," or " Two wongs don't make it white." The problem with this is that clothing companies don't care about the people and their customers they only care about getting money, so they only care about themselves. So, they make their clothing say things that you wouldn't want people to think about you, with slogans that are racist and offensive to women or even men. Like a Chinese line of shirts from Abercrombie & Fitch, that said-"Pizza Dojo: Eat in or Wok out." If everyone in the world took part in boycotting offensive,degrading, or racist clothing, then America as a nation could be strong and powerful enough to make clothing companies make a change in their clothing. A good change! Especially you teens and kids can make a great difference.





With boycotting clothing companies we can be able to make this change. For example Arabs boycotted a company called 'Fresh Jive' for making a clothing-line of shirts that had Arab looking men on their with guns, trying to show that they were terrorists and bombers."Action: Protest and Boycott of 'FreshJive' Clothing ." A French company called Carrefour was boycotted by Chinese activists because they didn't like how they had French roots. Even thought the boycott was done by rumors, Carrefour still sent out an apology letter saying that they would never do anything to harm the Chinese people. Another French clothing company called The French Connection was boycotted for making a line of T-shirts that was miss spelled saying: "Anglo Saxon Word." Anglo means-a white American of non-Hispanic descent, as distinguished especially from an American of Mexican or Spanish descent. Saxon means- a member of a Germanic people in ancient times dwelling near the mouth of the Elbe, a portion of whom invaded and occupied parts of Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries.





Boycotting will definitely help you overpower clothing companies that make you feel bad or uncomfortable. Gays and lesbians boycotted Target for donating money to anti-gay groups and politicians. In July of 2010 they donated $150,000 to Minnesota Forward, and action politician committee. This is the real world so not everything works like this boycott. But it gets the company and others aware of your problem. So they can help make a change. But if we did it together we could make a change. We can do this by teaming up and appearing to be stronger, and the company will either have to make our promise or break it. Which would be bad because then they'd lose money and go bankrupt. Then they'd change their way of clothing and we would be victorious!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

All in all, you can see that boycotting may not always work, but I believe that with everyone's strength that we can overpower every mean clothing store that gets in our way. This will work, as my #1 example Rosa Parks and her bus boycott that made a difference in how American people lived in society. Without that boycott we probably wouldn't have been as half as good nation that we are now. So, everyone worked together then we can make a change in degrading clothing and offensive clothing.I want everyone to get on their feet and go to Abercrombie & Fitch or a store of your choice and make a boycott by not going to their store anymore until they made a change or even by picketing/going on strike for their offensive clothing.Really you can help in any way, just help in some way. Get others to join you and you'll see with the slightest person you can make a difference. After all, don't you want to be a hero? Well be one by standing up for boycotting bad clothing stores.