You see people working with machines to mold the pumps that sit atop bottles of hair spray.
#Logo quiz level 8 number 41 series#
“Ascension” is a series of video postcards from China’s economy, places you would miss on package tours featuring the Great Wall or the terra-cotta army in Xi’an. Sure, we may check to see if an object or device says “Made in China.” We may even like fooling ourselves when we pay big for something that was “Designed by Apple in California.” But “Ascension,” the film we are watching this month for Econ Extra Credit, is a vivid reminder that we typically have no clue about who made most of the objects around us nor under what conditions they made it. We may ask while shopping for engagement rings about conflict diamonds. We’ve become better at asking whether a rug was woven by the tiny hands of child laborers. Inside, the bright coffee cherries - red as can be - are two coffee beans, also not brown, but green.
I was doing a story in the highlands of Kenya when I saw coffee on the bush, the plant, for the first time. I thought I was a worldly guy, but, until I was in my 40s, I didn’t know that coffee was red rather than dark brown. More recently, more than half the students surveyed at a California middle school didn’t see the relationship between cucumber and pickle. In a 1993 Department of Agriculture study quizzing people on their knowledge of stuff that comes from farms, a stunning percentage of respondents did not know that hamburgers are made from cattle (rather than pigs). How evolved have we become in understanding how the objects that surround us came to be?
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