What do you know about the T-shirt on you?

I have started reading "The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy" by Pietra Rivoli. This talks about the souvinier t-shirt you buy at Miami beach for 5.99 USD, could be produced in Shanghai, and exported at 1.28USD. And digging deeper, the cotton were grewed in Texas, USA.

I have only read the preface and the first chapter. One sentence grabbed my eyeballs: " You have to put on sunscreen in where you buy the t-shirt; you have to bring a gun for self-protection in where you make the t-shirt." This probably not talking about Shanghai, but could be Africa or South America.

Coincidently, the cover issue of recent Business Week in Taiwan is also about Globalization, but not the economy, the people instead. The journals suggest the best paid labours in the future are the ones able to fit themself in new environment easily and quickly. According to the journals, people like me are called "Global Nomads", or "TCKs". (Third Culture Kids). During my growing process, I live in a non-mother culture for most of the time. Every culture melts into part of my life experiences, but my life experience does not purely belong to any identical culture. I was born in Taiwan, grew up in Canada, work in China, and deal with customers from all over the world. I already find it difficult to identify WHO I am, where does my root belong to.

Anyway, teatime break is over.....I should go back to my work. Many of you are also TCKs, tell me how you think, I am very interested to know.