this is interesting and concise and a really good argument to keep in the back pocket when people ask me why i don't wear jewelry (the occaisional exception for wood/cloth/enamel type jewelry) and never want to be proposed to with a ring (the usual response to this is what kind of woman are you!?!): just say no to diamonds.
after finding out a lot about the history of the mines here in the course of research for work and also about the retail end of the business back home in ny, jewelry is even less tempting. mining is BIG MONEY here. so are retailing and wholesaling diamonds in the US and all over the world. we all know that wherever there is BIG MONEY there is also BIG EXPLOITATION and third world slavery in some cases, so why not stay away from something you don't need?
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I agree - besides, "everyone" has diamonds....but not everyone has handmade funk or bohemian beauty 'round their necks or hanging from their ears that is unique and not rooted to greed and death around the world.
I was given what I think is a diamond bracelet. I love it as a result of my appreciation and gratitude to the person who gave it to me (out of affection) - but I wonder why I have it and know we (the bracelet) and I don't go well together.
It's like going for McDonald's with a best friend - I don't like the food and I'd never eat it - but if I was there with someone I cared about so much, I'd probably make the most of it and enjoy -yet all the while wonder why it was happening at all.
Do you like how you're home and NOW I'm commenting? It amuses me Tacos soon yes. Cooking definitely. I have a kitchen too now - and while I don't have rockband we could watch bones?
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